Branch: refs/heads/master Author: Jiří Techet techet@gmail.com Committer: Jiří Techet techet@gmail.com Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 11:15:53 UTC Commit: 642553bb887dcc1322a3c65598991054e8c11a02 https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/642553bb887dcc1322a3c65598991054e8c11a...

Log Message: ----------- Update geany.txt with the Project->New from Folder item

Modified Paths: -------------- doc/geany.txt

Modified: doc/geany.txt 37 lines changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) =================================================================== @@ -2776,14 +2776,35 @@ The project menu items are detailed below. New project ^^^^^^^^^^^

-To create a new project, fill in the *Name* field. By default this -will setup a new project file ``~/projects/name.geany``. Usually it's -best to store all your project files in the same directory (they are -independent of any source directory trees). - -The Base path text field is setup to use ``~/projects/name``. This -can safely be set to any existing path -- it will not touch the file -structure contained in it. +There are two ways of creating new projects, either by using +*Project->New* menu item or by using *Project->New from Folder* menu +item. + +New + This method is more suitable for creating new, empty projects from + scratch at the default location without having any existing sources. + + To create a new project, fill in the *Name* field. By default this + will setup a new project file ``~/projects/name/name.geany``. + + The *Base path* text field is setup to use ``~/projects/name``. This + can safely be set to any existing path -- it will not touch the file + structure contained in it. + +New from Folder + This method is more suitable when there is already some folder + containing source files for which you want to create a new project. + + When using this method, Geany first opens a directory selection + dialog to select the folder containing the sources, and the + *Base path* field is set to that value. + + Afterwards, Geany shows the same dialog as the *Project->New* + method but already pre-filled with the values based on the + *Base path* selection. The *Name* field is filled with the folder + name, the *Filename* field is filled with + ``base_path/name.geany`` and the *Base path* field is filled with + the path specified in the previous dialog.

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