Feature request: "Display Grid Pattern" support. Both gEdit (optional) and gnome-Builder (by default) support displaying a subtle grid pattern in the editor area.
The pictures below shows the look with different solarized flavors. I understand this is a matter of taste but since this became Builder's default I guess this is popular with devs; I don't use builder but I find myself using it in gEdit all the time and I miss it in Geany.
I couldn't find any open or closed feature requests on geany so here it goes. Some research shows this was a feature added by gtksourceview.
I think this would need to be implemented by Scintilla, the editing widget Geany uses which is a separate project [here](www.scintilla.org). Then Geany would then only need an option to turn it on (off by default).
I'm still puzzled one what is the purpose of this pattern, esp. as on your screenshots the grid doesn't even seem to match line boundaries or something.
But anyway, as @elextr mentioned, if Scintilla gets support for it we could add a setting easily (or a plugin could add it, even). And implementing this without modifying Scintilla itself, while I believe would be theoretically possible, would likely be a pain and a lot less efficient -- and in any case not worth the hassle IMO.
while I believe would be theoretically possible, would likely be a pain and a lot less efficient -- and in any case not worth the hassle IMO.
Well, the last attempt to modify the background had to be removed after a while IIRC.
@elextr wasn't it VTE background that was removed because newer versions of the VTE lib dropped the feature, and dealing with it manually was too much trouble?
Yes, might have been VTE.
I'm with @b4n here. It doesn't seem useful if it doesn't even align to line heights / characters. And it would be a lot of work, and needs to be implemented in scintilla (we like to avoid invasive local changes to it).
Closed #1704.
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