[Geany] Request for feedback: Geanyuniq

[Ross McKay]

Lex Trotman wrote:

>Why do people still do data wrangling in text this many years after
>the invention of the day-tar base. (rhetorical question ;-)

I often need to wrangle day-tar with a text editor to simplify migrating
it from some truly horrid Microsoft Access pile to something less
horrid, at least when it's only going to be a one-off migration and
scripting it would take longer, but that aside...

I quite often grab chunks of text from such sources as XML files, SQL
schemas, CSV nastiness, visually-impenetrable legacy code etc. and use
Geany to strip them back to useful field names that I can then drop into
code classes, HTML forms, etc. using a mix of regex and piped commands.
I used to do that sort of thing with a variety of sed, awk and python
scripting but generally find I can do it all much faster directly in
Geany these days (especially with the most frequently used transforms
bound to a couple of keystrokes).

>[...]
>> In fact, the predominant Scintilla- based editor on Windows, Notepad++,
>> has a nifty plugin called TextFX that does thus plus dozens of other
>> really nice text transforms because they can be so handy. Perhaps this
>> plugin can one day become the Geany equivalent :)
>
>Maybe Emil could take that as a challenge, at least he knows where to
>look for ideas :) and this plugin could be the start of an incremental
>implementation.

I was hoping so, or at least it might serve as a good base for the next
hacker :)
-- 
Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia
"You don't wonder where we're going
 Or remember where we've been
 We've got to keep this traffic
 Flowing and accept a little spin
 So this long line of cars
 Will never have an end
 And this long line of cars
 Keeps coming around the bend" - Cake