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+Geany Newsletter
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Volume 1
+CC-BY -- The Geany-Newsletter team
+
+
+Table of Contents
+-----------------
+
+1 Geany 0.20 has been released
+
+2 Geany-Plugins 0.20 have beenreleased
+2.1 New plugins
+2.1.1 UpdateChecker
+2.1.2 WebHelper
+2.2 Updates & Bugfixes
+2.2.1 GeanyExtraSel
+2.2.2 GeanyGenDoc
+2.2.3 GeanyLaTeX
+2.2.4 TreeBrowser
+
+3 Geany-Development
+3.1 Update to Scintilla 2.22
+3.2 Further patches
+3.2.1 Support for COBOL
+
+4 Plugins
+4.1 New plugins to Geany-Plugins-project
+4.1.1 Tableconvert
+4.1.2 Debugger
+4.1.3 GeanyPG
+
+5 Geany Universe
+5.1 New Mailing List – geany-newsletter-commits
+5.2 New team member – Colomban Wendling
+5.3 Geany local
+5.3.1 Geany at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011 (March 19th, 20th)
+
+6 Let us introduce you....
+6.1 Plugin Focus
+6.1.1 File Browser
+6.2 Feature Focus
+6.2.1 Comments formatting
+
+7 Contact
+
+
+Editorial
+---------
+
+Welcome to the first Geany newsletter with highlights of the last few weeks
+during Geany development and use. This newsletter is not intended to give a
+complete overview of Geany news, but is trying to collect the most important
+items. Have fun and happy coding!
+
+1 Geany 0.20 has been released
+-------------------------------
+
+On January 2011, the 6th version 0.20 of Geany "Disra" was released. As always
+the release contained a number of bug fixes as well as improvements and new
+features.
+Some of the highlights:
+ * Improve compatibility with GVfs using GIO to save documents (Alexey
+ Antipov).
+ * Fix occasional crashes when closing a modified document and choosing
+ Save.
+ * Reorganize Find in Files dialog and add Files pattern to filter search
+ results.
+ * Show mimetype icon in sidebar Documents list and notebook popup menu
+ (Colomban Wendling).
+ * Add per-document indent width setting (Jiri Techet).
+ * Fix passing quoted arguments when using ’Send Selection to’. This means
+ e.g. sed ’s/\./(dot)/g’ now works.
+ * Add alternative color scheme based on Python colors (View-Editor-Color
+ Schemes - not all filetypes supported yet).
+ * Auto-indent after an HTML/XML line without a closing tag (Eugene
+ Arshinov).
+ * Add Forth filetype (Thomas Huth).
+ * Add Lisp filetype (Mário Silva).
+ * Add Erlang filetype (Taylor Venable).
+ * Add translations: kk.
+ * Update translations: cs, de, en_GB, es, fi, fr, hu, ja, nl, pt, sl, sv,
+ tr, zh_CN.
+
+2 Geany-Plugins 0.20 have been released
+----------------------------------------
+
+Shortly after the release of Geany the Geany-Plugins collection was released
+with version 0.20. This collection includes a number of useful plugins, not
+shipped with Geany itself. This release is the result of about 6 months of
+development work and so it has quite a number of changes and some new plugins:
+
+2.1 New plugins
+================
+
+2.1.1 UpdateChecker
+********************
+
+UpdateChecker implements a check for new releases of Geany and notifies the
+user when one is available. It’s based on libsoup and can be configured to
+check during startup or on request.
+
+2.1.2 WebHelper
+****************
+
+WebHelper is a plugin that provides some web development facilities, such as a
+web page preview and some debugging tools (web inspector). The plugin
+implements the following features:
+ * A basic web view, allowing the display of any web page (using WebKit);
+ * Possible automatic reloading of the web view upon document saving;
+ * A web inspector/debugging tool for the web view’s content (including a
+ JavaScript console, a viewer and editor of processed HTML and CSS, a
+ network usage analysis tool and many more, thanks to WebKit).
+
+2.2 Updates & Bugfixes
+=======================
+
+Also there have been a lot of bugfixes and updates on plugins. For further
+details please check the Release notes and/or the ChangeLog of plugins. A few
+selected changes are:
+
+2.2.1 GeanyExtraSel
+********************
+
+ * Respect ’Smart’ home key (Geany does now).
+ * Fixed Scintilla Shift+movement key conversion of rectangle selection.
+ * Virtual spaces support.
+ * Per-file column mode.
+ * Added "Set Anchor", "Select to Anchor" and "Rectangle Select to Anchor".
+
+2.2.2 GeanyGenDoc
+******************
+
+ * Bump dependency on CTPL to 0.3.
+ * Add a popup menu for common actions in the documentation type selector.
+ * Fix indentation of inserted documentation blocs.
+ * Documentation type now defaults to Doxygen (rather than nothing).
+ * Add policy PASS to completely ignore a symbol.
+ * Add basic rules for PHP.
+ * Fix build against GTK+ 2.16.
+ * Don’t copy the system configuration file to the user’s one when hitting
+ "Edit Current Language Configuration", only write it when saving changes.
+
+2.2.3 GeanyLaTeX
+*****************
+
+ * Move LaTeX-menu to a separate menu inside Geany main menu.
+ * Add a feature to auto-capitalize letters on typing the beginning of a
+ sentence.
+ * Add a way to put an icon for LaTeX-wizard into Geany’s main toolbar.
+ * Added a dialog for inserting BibTeX references based on available *.bib-
+ files.
+
+2.2.4 TreeBrowser
+******************
+
+ * Added bookmarks support.
+ * Added keybindings support.
+ * Added mime type icons in the tree.
+ * Many bugfixes and code improvements.
+
+3 Geany-Development
+--------------------
+
+After the 0.20 release the development has slowed down a bit but nevertheless,
+some changes did happen:
+
+3.1 Update to Scintilla 2.22
+=============================
+
+Right after the release of Geany 0.20 with Subversion r5521 an updated version
+of Scintilla was been merged from the unstable branch into trunk. Geany trunk
+is now running with version 2.22 of the Scintilla editing component.
+
+3.2 Further patches
+====================
+
+3.2.1 Support for COBOL
+************************
+
+At the end of January 2011 a patch was committed to Geany trunk which enabled
+COBOL support inside Geany. Now it’s possible to use features like syntax
+highlighting for this language.
+
+4 Plugins
+----------
+
+It was a quite active time right after the 0.20 release on the plugin
+development side.
+
+4.1 New plugins to Geany-Plugins-project
+=========================================
+
+4.1.1 Tableconvert
+******************+
+
+After a little chaos with naming, the new plugin Tableconvert was added to the
+development version of the Geany-Plugins. It offers a way to convert tab
+separated lists (e.g. imported from Microsoft Excel or LibreOffice Calc) into a
+table. Currently the plugin supports HTML and LATEX tables.
+
+4.1.2 Debugger
+***************
+
+The Debugger plugin has added a second binding for gdb to the Geany-Plugins
+project.
+
+4.1.3 GeanyPG
+**************
+
+With GeanyPG Hans Alves submitted a new plugin to geany-plugins project which
+adds support for signing, encrypting and decryption of text files opened in
+Geany.
+
+5 Geany Universe
+-----------------
+
+5.1 New Mailing List – geany-newsletter-commits
+================================================
+
+When the geany-newsletter project was started, a new commit mailing was
+created. The goal of this list is to notify all interested people whenever a
+new commit has taken place inside the geany-newsletter git repository. As
+always you can find the list via http://www.geany.org/Support/MailingList
+
+5.2 New team member – Colomban Wendling
+========================================
+
+In March 2011, Colomban Wendling joined the Geany core team. Over the last few
+years he has submitted a lot of patches. He did a great job during the last
+month - e.g. building up a tagmanager-in-memory patchset as well as providing a
+big number of patches and providing support on both the mailing list as well as
+IRC. Welcome Colomban!
+
+5.3 Geany local
+================
+
+5.3.1 Geany at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011 (March 19th, 20th)
+************************************************************
+
+On the coming weekend (around March 19th, 20th) there will be a local Linux and
+FOSS convention in Chemnitz, Germany. Some of the Geany guys will be around and
+have a little booth at the event. So if you are nearby, come join us for a
+chat. You will find us next to the Xfce guys.
+Details for this convention can be find on their homepage at http://
+chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/
+
+6 Let us introduce you....
+---------------------------
+
+This section is intended to introduce particular plugins or features on a
+regular basis.
+
+6.1 Plugin Focus
+=================
+
+6.1.1 File Browser
+*******************
+
+The File Browser plugins adds to the sidebar a tab with which you can browser
+files and folders. By default it shows the contents of the folder containing
+the first file opened in Geany. You can navigate to other drives and folders
+using any of the options available at the very top of the tab:
+
+* Up: Navigates to one folder higher in the file system.
+* Home: Navigates to your Home folder.
+* Set path from document: Sets the active folder to the one containing the
+ current active document.
+* Folder input box: Here you can enter any path you want to see in the File
+ Browser. As you type the path it will offer autocompletion of the folder’s
+ name.
+
+Also at the top of the tab is the Filter input box in which you can enter a
+file specification of those files you want to appear in the File Browser. The
+file specifications must be quite simple - e.g. g*.py or *.xml. Regular
+expressions are not supported. To clear the filter either click on the icon at
+the right of the Filter input box or empty the Filter box and press [Enter].
+
+6.2 Feature Focus
+==================
+
+6.2.1 Comments formatting
+**************************
+
+When writing source code or in a markup language, it’s often necessary to mark
+one or more lines as a comment. Geany offers several functions from the Edit
+-> Format sub-menu which make this very easy:
+
+ * Comment Line(s)
+ * Uncomment Line(s)
+ * Toggle Line Commentation
+
+To use these options on a single line, put the cursor on that line and select
+the menu option. To use them on a block of code, select the whole block then
+select the menu option. The Toggle Line Commentation menu option will, as its
+name suggests, add comment markers to a normal line/section of code and, if the
+line/section is already a comment, remove the comment markers. What’s great
+about these options is that they insert or remove the comment markers
+applicable to the type of file being edited. This means that you can focus on
+the content of what you’re editing instead of having to worry about getting the
+comment markers right. This is precisely Geany’s aim: to make coding easier and
+faster without getting in your way.
+
+7 Contact
+----------
+
+If you like to contribute to the newsletter, make a request or complaint about
+content please contact frank at geany.org via email.
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