Devel May 2010

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43 discussions

Intro (and apology)
by Tony Rick 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hi. I'm Tony Rick, and I hit the wrong list for requesting the 'help' response the first time. I'm in Portland Oregon, where a lot of programmers like me are 'at liberty' and looking for things to do. I'm currently helping teach a Beginning C Programming class at a local computer hardware recycling non-profit organization, FreeGeek. (Maybe you've heard of it, http://www.freegeek.org if not). The class is using Geany v0.14 on Debian Lenny, which will update to 0.17 with a backports repository enabled. One of the questions that came up in class was about the GPL license in the header being a visual irritant. I explained briefly about editing templates, but having them updated requires a Geany restart in that version. I scanned the mailing list archives and features list and template management issues have been raised before. One of the features requests (2925273, from arquebus), requested a templates file selection item in the Tools menu. I thought I might start there. I haven't figured out yet what the criteria are for deciding what should be psrt of the core and what should be a plugin. I also discovered that custom templates do not appear automatically when saved. The Documentation indicates that this requires a Geany restart also, but the 'Reload Configuration' tool does indeed add them. I'm not sure whether this is a bug (templates and related menus should be updated when files are modified, like configuration files), or a serendipitous feature that simply 'came along with' Reload Configuration, or should be mentioned in the Templates section of the documentation (which it currently does not, IIRC). My original thought was to use GIO and monitor the templates directory for changes, but I saw several posts about problems with GIO and detecting remote file changes and the use of the GIO compiler conditional, and so assumed that the Reload Configuration method had been chosen as an interrim solution, and that GIO file change detection was on hold until the remote file issue had been resolved. - tony

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[Plugin API feature request] Please add symbols_get_context_separator() to the plugin API
by Colomban Wendling 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hi! I need the feature of symbols_get_context_separator() in GeanyGenDoc to bypass that annoying behavior of the tag manager that is file-type-specific scope separator. I think the only reliable way to get this separator is to use this function that would probably evolve together with the tagmanager. Then, I would definitely appreciate to have it in the plugin API not to need to have an up-to-date copy of it that reflects the current tagmanager's use. Since there is currently no symbols_* functions exported to the plugin API I don't know if you think it is a good idea, but if a patch that adds SymbolsFuncs and symbols_get_context_separator() (and more if needed) would be applied, I could write it :) Best regards, Colomban

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Questions on inserting text & indentation
by Colomban Wendling 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hi, In my GeanyGenDoc plugin I was using sci_insert_text() to insert the generated documentation comment; but I wanted to be able to indent the inserted comment to follow the indentation at the insertion position. I found editor_insert_text_block() which seemed quite interesting, but it didn't do what I expected -- and still no indentation. Of course when going a bit in the code, since I inserted my comment at the start of the line, and editor_insert_text_block() adds the indentation that is found between the start of the line and the insertion position… which are the same in my case. Then, I wondered how to fix my problem, and finally found a solution that consists to insert at start of line + sci_get_line_indentation() [1]. But I have some questions: 1) How editor_insert_text_block() is meant to be used to get the right indentation, since (if I'm right) we need to insert at the right position in the first line? Is the solution I've found the right one, or is there a cleaner/simpler solution? 2) If this is a good way to proceed, could we have sci_get_line_indentation() in the plugin API? Even though it is easy to reproduce [2] it would be nicer to have it directly. Regards, Colomban [1] http://geany-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geany-plugins/trunk/geanyge… [2] http://geany-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geany-plugins/trunk/geanyge…

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