[Geany] vcdiff output on windows

[Pierre Joye]

Hi!

On Feb 17, 2008 9:09 PM, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> > Well, the diff itself works, I can see the diff output :)
> In the opened console window, but not in Geany, right?

yes, I was trying to keep it open, as lazy fix  :)

> > Will you be interested in a patch to store the output of the diff in a
> > custom location? Ideally I would like to use a proc open-like system
> > to fetch the output of the VC commands and store it somewhere (be the
> > clipboard, a new tab or send it to a pastebin service for example). It
> I would prefer the clipboard and then paste it into Geany. But in
> general YES, I'm interested in such a patch. I don't know the Windows
> API very well(read: almost none). This patch can later also be used in
> the GeanyVC plugin which has the same problem and for the build-related
> code in Geany itself.

Ok, I first have to refresh my mind about all these things. Maybe a
first independent code to show how it works on both platforms may
help, we can then merge it.

> > > The strange thing is that exactly the same code works for e.g. gcc.exe
> > > (Mingw) and grep.exe, make.exe from the UnxUtils package.
> > >
> > > If anyone has an idea about this, please tell us.
> >
> > I can take that as an yes to my question?
> >
> > The next thing I was thinking about is to add a non portable
> > implementation of the console for the window versions. However I have
> What do you mean? We already got a console window for debugging output
> (stdout, stderr) on Windows, it's only activated when Geany is started
> with -d. But maybe I didn't understand you correctly.

I meant the terminal tab (the shell), or did I miss an option on windows?

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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