Users January 2008

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[Geany] incremental search backward revisited
by John Gabriele 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

Last year I brought up the topic of Geany having an incremental search backward feature. Nick mentioned (http://lists.uvena.de/pipermail/geany/2007-September/001665.html) that it might eventually get implemented. Since then, when using Geany, I've tried using Ctrl-F to move focus to the search bar (incremental search forward), Shift-Ctrl-g to go backward, and Ctrl-E to bring focus back to the editor. The problem though, is that it still feels quite clumsy to me. So, I've got 2 ideas for improvement: 1. Since Geany is a GUI editor/IDE, and it's got a toolbar, how about having a (possibly optionally visible) checkbox widget associated with the Search field, such that when checked, does the search in the opposite direction? That would seem to be an easy way to provide incremental search backward. If you think it looks like an ugly hack, you could always leave the checkbox's visibility off, by default, and then provide a sub-checkbox for "Prefs --> Toolbar tab --> Items section --> Show Search field" to make it visible. As long as users could toggle the checkbox (while visible) by hitting an Alt key combo (like other GUI parts), it would speed up editing a lot, IMO. 2. When I do an incremental search for something that's already visible on the page, and the cursor gets there, I don't think Geany should automatically scroll to center the view. The reason is, when you're using incremental search to move around on the page, you've usually already got the location you're headed to in the corner of your eye. If the view scrolls while you're on the way there, it's jarring. Also, I may just be going there to set a bookmark, and then heading back to where I was. Having the screen flop all over the place while just moving around the visible view is disorienting. :) 2.A. Incidentally, I think that using Ctrl-. and Ctrl-, (moving between bookmarks) should behave the same way (as described above) when the target bookmark is already visible on the screen. Thanks, ---John

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[Geany] New Plugin: GeanyLaTeX-plugin 0.1
by Frank Lanitz 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

Hi, Release early, release often. So I'm doing ;) Last weeks I started to write a little plugin that helps me to create newly LaTeX-documents and manage them after that. Right now, it's just a little wizard to help to create new documents and don't type things like \documentclass [baa]{foo} so often. Well, nothing more like a nice gimmick IMHO. But since I was inspired by Emacs/aucTeX in combination with my personal experience, I've got a big number of ideas. I've uploaded the source to my Geany folder at http://frank.uvena.de/geany/geanylatex-0.1.tar.gz2 Maybe it's useful for somebody. The plugin should compile with Geany 0.13svn r 2177 and newer. Compiling at any Windows platform is _completely_ untested and expected to doesn't work at all ;) Regards, Frank

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[Geany] Problems with copy-paste in Windows version
by Andreas Tscharner 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hello World, hello Enrico, Geany 0.13svn >= 2188 (Latest windows build), Windows XP Professional I have a file in the editor, mode is Win (CRLF), encoding UTF-8 (no BOM). If I lookt at it in a hex editor, it is correctly saved with line endings 0x0D, 0x0A. If I mark (a part or all) the file, copy it into the clipboard and paste it into geany, it is still correct. If I paste it into another editor, the line endings look like 0x0D, 0x0D, 0x0A, e.g. 0x0D appears twice (adding an extra line in the other editor and sometimes even compiler errors if it is source code)... Best regards Andreas -- ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ `o_ o ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' (il).-'' (li).' ((!.-' Andreas Tscharner andy(a)vis.ethz.ch ICQ-No. 14356454

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[Geany] Scintilla 1.75 (Filetype Support and more)
by Taylor Venable 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

The latest version of Scintilla has many more filetypes supported than the version currently used by Geany. It's not that hard to port Geany over to using Scintilla 1.75 (I was able to do it this afternoon in about half-an-hour after poking around). This doesn't provide the filetype information used by Geany (e.g. colors, keyword list, etc as defined in filetype.lang) to do the syntax highlighting, but it does put the lexer framework in place, and such information can easily be obtained, maybe from SciTE or the language specification or any other text editor. If I'm right about this, it shouldn't be too hard to add a lot of new languages at once to Geany. Then again, I'm new to Geany's internals, so please correct me if I'm wrong. Scintilla 1.75 also offers several other improvements. I myself am partial to the fact that it can render indentation guides over blank lines. Does it seem like a good idea to move to this newer version of Scintilla after the 0.13 release? -- Taylor Venable http://real.metasyntax.net:2357/ foldr = lambda f, i, l: (len(l) == 1 and [f(l[0], i)] or [f(l[0], foldr(f, i, l[1:]))])[0]

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[Geany] Scheduled outage on Friday, 18.01.2008
by Enrico Tröger 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi, just for your interest: on Friday, 18.01.2008 about 14:00 UTC uvena.de(the server where this list is hosted) will be down for a system upgrade and some maintenance work. I think it will be up again on Saturday with all services(mainly this mailing list and the webserver). You should be able to send mails to this list anyway but they won't be delayed, so don't be surprised ;-). Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.key

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[Geany] pluginmacros.h changes
by Nick Treleaven 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi all plugin authors, >From http://lists.uvena.de/geany/2008-January/002462.html: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:31:06 -0600 "Jeff Pohlmeyer" <yetanothergeek at gmail.com> wrote: > IMO, the names from pluginmacros.h should be all uppercase. > I know this will break all of the existing plugins, but I think it is > much better in the long run, it makes the code more readable, > at least for me. I've committed alternative macros in pluginmacros.h that use a 'p_' prefix, instead of all uppercase. Enrico & I think this is more readable and consistent. The macro names after the prefix are the same as the first word in the core function name - e.g.: document_open_file() -> p_document->open_file() The variable name macros are unaffected. The old macros will still be available in pluginmacros.h until after the next release, so there is no rush to update external plugins, but it is advisable to do so when you can. Please let me know if there are any problems with this. Thanks, Nick

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[Geany] Project session files
by Bo Lorentsen 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi ... Am I the only person that have problems loading files on startup from a project ? If I startup Geany, and then load a project it get all the session files from this project, as it is supposed to. But if I quit Geany, and start it again Geany load the project as I expected, but no project files (from project session) are open anymore :-( This use to work ... My config say : "Load files from the last session" checked "Use project-based session files" checked Any idea as to how ? /BL

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[Geany] GeanyLua plug-in "prefix" key?
by John Gabriele 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

I think that a good way to access GeanyLua plug-ins via the keyboard would be to have one main GeanyLua key binding that you could hit to get GeanyLua to listen for the *next* key and then run the appropriate plug-in for you from there. That is, use a "prefix key". For example, you could use the letter 'r' to reach `reverse.lua`, and get to it by hitting a prefix key combo like, say, Ctrl-!. The whole command would then be: Ctrl-! r (hit Ctrl-!, release, then tap 'r'). The main idea is, I'd rather not play games trying to find unused key combos for every Lua plug-in script that I plan on using regularly. And I want to be able to access these regularly-used plug-ins very quickly via the keyboard. Can I get the main GeanyLua plug-in to respond to one main key combo like that (ex. Ctrl-!)? And, if so, any recommendations on how I could then make it hand-off to the selected Lua script after I hit the next key? Thanks, ---John

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[Geany] Lua plugin 0.6.0 released
by Jeff Pohlmeyer 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Another new version of GeanyLua, this release adds: * Support for dynamic loading of third-party Lua modules. * The ability to arrange menu items in arbitrary order. * A new "keygrab" function for accessing multiple script actions from a single keybinding. Along with a few bug fixes (and maybe even a few new bugs!) http://yetanothergeek.justfree.com/geanylua/ - Jeff

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[Geany] Whole word searches with non-word edges
by Jeff Pohlmeyer 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

When I search a file using grep's -w switch, or using the "whole word" search option in other editors, if the search term begins or ends with a non-word character, the editors I tested will still find the match, but Geany does not. For instance, Geany does not treat "return;" (sans quotes) in the same way as (most?) other editors.[1] Is this a bug, or intended behavior? - Jeff [1] NEdit,SciTE,Metapad,Delphi,CRedit,ConTEXT,gnumeric

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