[Geany] plugin docs - Re: geanydebug vs. geanydbg

[Nick Treleaven]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:20:44 +0100
Micke Nordin <mickewiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to get
> involved with documentation of the plugins?

Yes, that'd be great. You'd need to talk to the maintainer of any
plugin you want to write documentation for - I think Yura Siamashka
is the maintainer of the GeanyDebug GDB plugin. I'm the de-facto
maintainer for GeanyLua (but it already has documentation in
SVN).

Or/also general docs for geany-plugins would be good too IMO. You could
join the geany-devel list and start a thread.

The 'internal' plugins distributed with Geany are also missing some
documentation from the manual:
http://www.geany.org/manual/dev/index.html#plugin-documentation

> Also a feuture request, on a side note: I found that I can use gcj to
> build java-code and then use the debugger-plugin to debug javaprograms
> from geany, wich is excellent of course. Would it be possible to add
> build arguments to the "java-mode" as well, beside the compile
> options, in the build-menu (making the java-mode more similar to the
> c++-mode for example? To compile and build java with Geany I now have
> to put this rather complex string into the compile options:
> gcj -c -g -O "%f" && gcj --main="%e" -o "%e" "%e".o

Check the manual, it should be possible to add a linker= command to
your local filetypes.java, then the dialog will also show it.

> Also having a dropdown menu where I can choose from different
> compilers would be good, so that I could easily switch between javac
> and gcj :)

Well, Geany will only run commands, not understand build systems, but we
are working on making commands more configurable.

Regards,
Nick