[Geany] File selector ?

[John Gabriele]

On 4/27/07, Alexandre Moreira <alexandream at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just a workaround I find very useful in situations like this (I use it
> in both Geany and GVim). I usually keep a Thunar window opened,
> vertically maximized and narrow it a lot, presenting files as a list.
> That way I can put it left or right and launch my files (which will
> always load in new tabs in Geany.... it works nice) :)

Never heard of Thunar. Thanks for mentioning it Alexandre! Looks good.

I'm running Debian with IceWM, and just installed Thunar. It says it's
the file manager for Xfce, but it installed fine, and I can run it
from IceWM. As a prereq, it installed xfce4-panel, but it doesn't seem
to be running (which is fine by me).

It's a very enticing idea to use Thunar with Geany. I gave it a try.
First thing I did was right-click on a script to edit, and do: Open
With --> Open with other application. I clicked the flippy-triangle
for "use a custom command" and typed: geany %f

To see what %f mean, you have to go to Edit --> Configure custom
actions and hit the "plus" button.

So, for that script, I double-clicked it, and it showed up in a new
tab in Geany. Great. Trouble is, the next file -- with the same
filename extension -- didn't. Instead, it tried to run. Seems like it
wants to run .pl scripts in my ~/bin directory... but others it will
just open with Geany by default (weird...).

So, although using Thunar with Geany looks very promising, I have two
questions. Does anyone happen to know:

1. Is there any way to tell Thunar to *never* execute files?

2. To configure Thunar to know what to do, it seems as if you have to
go through each filetype (filename extension) and tell it to use Geany
for each one? Or is there some way to do it wholesale? I guess that's
not such a big deal though -- only have to do it once...

Anyway, I should probably ask those on the Thunar list, but it sounds
like there's some experience with it here, and it could make a very
nice combo with Geany.

This might be something to mention in the manual
(.../share/doc/geany/html/ch03s03.html#general_instance), as an
example of using an external file manager.

Thanks,
---John