On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:28:42 +1100 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 January 2014 21:00, Thomas Martitz kugel@rockbox.org wrote:
Not sure is the ^ really useful to us in geany? I'm not sure because clicking on the line moves the editor to that location anyway.
Yes clicking goes to the line, but doesn't indicate the column, which is what ^ does.
It would be better if it *did* go to the column but that needs focus forced to the editing widget to show the new cursor position. Focussing by clicking unfortunately makes the cursor go where you click :)
I just (belatedly) checked and there is PR #191 and patch #11 both purporting to handle column numbers, not sure of their status.
Patch 11 works without changes since Mar-2012. It handles the buildin parsing, and explains in geany.txt the optional 3rd regex for column. Generally, it's a simple extension to the current parsing mechanism.
#191 is quite big but on quick glance I didn't actually see where the column was handled, and sf is so slow I ran out of patience looking for the patch 11.
I attached a fresh copy of patch 11 which applies without offsets.