[Geany] feature request: expand text view

[John Gabriele]

On 5/5/07, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2007 15:11:33 -0400, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I added a keybinding(no menu item, at least not now) to hide most of
> > > the additional widgets. We don't hide the notebook tabs because then
> > > you loose control(mostly) over open files and can only switch with
> > > keyboard shortcuts between the files.
> >
> > Neat. Thanks. :) I stuck in on the F12 key. Interesting choice of
> > hiding the sidebar instead of the tabs. Just curious: why hide the
> > sidebar at all? Do you often need the extra text window *width*?
>
> Hmm, I thought if hiding such stuff then completely and so also hide
> the sidebar. And just keeping the tab bar for file navigation.
> Isn't it good?

It's great! Thanks for adding the feature. I'm already using it, and
think it deserves its own menu item and key combo so new users can't
find it more easily. :)

What I was getting at was, since Geany doesn't currently have the
feature of showing multiple files side-by-side, I don't really need
more text window *width* (most files are only around 80 characters
wide anyway). When I now hit F12, I'm looking to temporarily get
maximum text window *height*. Keeping the sidebar around could still
be helpful for navigating between functions/classes/whatever -- and,
additionally, you can use its "Open files" tab to switch between files
instead of using the editor tabs. So, to me it seems to make more
sense to keep the sidebar, but lose the tabs when I hit F12.

(BTW, I only picked to bind it to F12 because that seems un-used and
because it's right near F11 (which maximizes the window, of course).
No idea if Gnome or KDE use F12 for something -- I an IceWM user).

> > Say, I went to make some updates to the docs (mostly regarding this),
> > but noticed that there seemed to be some issues after running `make
> > doc` in the geany/doc directory
>
> > I didn't touch those lines, so I'm not sure why those errors are
> > showing up now, but please find attached my small patch/addition.
>
> Hehe, there were just a "</para>" missing on line 1130 which caused all
> the errors.
> Thanks for the patch, I just applied. Nice!

Ouch. Thanks. :)

Say, I just did an svn update; ./configure --prefix=/home/me/opt;
make; make install, but my local geany docs don't show the updates...
I can see the updates in geany.docbook, but even the html files in the
geany/doc/html directory aren't updated... is there some doc
dependency missing in the build system?

Thanks,
---John