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[Geany] A few notes about Geany Newsletter
by Frank Lanitz 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hi folks, Just a few, barely sorted notes about the newsletter I've sent a couple of minutes ago: The intention of the newsletter is to give an overview about the most important things inside Geany universe including Plugins. Future goal is to create it on a monthly or 2-monthly period. The newsletter has been done in team work between Russell Dickenson, Enrico and myself based on a discussion earlier this year at this list. (Thanks for this guys!) The 1st issue has been done with LaTeX, but this maybe change in future. The 'development' is done transparent inside a public git repository at http://git.geany.org/newsletter/ Please feel free to clone this and send patches :) But patches is a good topic: We do need your input! We are trying to keep on monitoring the mailing lists and everything else what is happening inside Geany environment, but we cannot ensure we get the attention of every interesting point. So if you have something might fit, don't hesitate to write an email. For the beginning, just ping me. Maybe we will set up a new mailing list later, but this is nothing I spent much thoughts about. Cheers, Frank -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/

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[Geany] Geany newsletter - proposal to allow comments
by Russell Dickenson 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

What does everyone think about allowing the newsletter's readers the option of making comments about specific issues on the web versions? There's a "free" service named Disqus - disqus.com - which makes it easy to add this service to static web pages. Sometimes people like to respond directly rather than having to quote content via a mailing list. I'm just putting the idea out there for others to comment on. :) I honestly don't mind if we do or don't provide this option. -- Russell Dickenson

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[Geany] About set geany colors tool. To John Gabriele or whom it may concern
by luca＠email.com 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hello! :) the package set_geany_colors writtem by John Gabriele is not reachable at [ http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/jmg/files/set_geany_colors.tar.bz2 ] is there any chance to get it? wouldn't it be a good idea to have it available directly from [ http://www.geany.org ] ? Thanks and kind regards Luca # # # # # Follow up: visiting the faq page at [ http://www.geany.org/Documentation/FAQ#QQuestions7 ] you can read """ There is a tool for configuring color schemes, and a set of dark color schemes available here. """ pointing at [ http://www.geany.org/Download/Extras ] where you find """ Set Geany Colors John Gabriele wrote a tool to set up nice syntax highlighting color schemes. You can download it at http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/jmg/files/set_geany_colors.tar.bz2. Ray Griffin wrote an installer for it that also installs the Config-Tiny perl module it depends on - note that it deletes any ~/tmp folder. """ Now the link [ http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/jmg/files/set_geany_colors.tar.bz2 ] is not reachable googling "set_geany_colors.tar.bz2" I cannot find any available alternative. Wouldn't it be nice to have this package, as any other extra, available directly through the [ http://www.geany.org ] site?

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[Geany] [ANN for plugin developers] Automated code checking
by Colomban Wendling 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi dear Geany plugin developers, I just added some automated code checking to the Autotools-based build system, after a (quite long) discussion on the Geany development list [1]. What are these checks? ---------------------- They are currently quite basic, but will hopefully help finding some possible problems automatically -- and actually they already did! The checks are currently (see the brand new HACKING file): 1) Some chosen C compiler warnings, enabled by default; 2) The `cppcheck` static analyzer, run upon `make check` (if you have it). How does this affect me? ------------------------ First of all, we hope they will help you in finding and correcting some possible problems, or simply help you improve some code parts. In practice, you'll probably see some warnings when building your plugin: the goal is to fix the most. If you have any question, why you get some warnings or how to fix them, don't hesitate to ask here -- to correctly fix a warning one need to exactly know why he get it. One of these warnings is wrong, what can I do? ---------------------------------------------- Tell us! If one of these warnings produces too much false-positive, we'll discuss it and most probably remove it. The goal is not to bother anybody, only to make the plugin's code better. I hope this will help all of us providing even better plugins, without too much efforts :) Regards, Colomban [1] starting from http://lists.uvena.de/pipermail/geany-devel/2011-February/003957.html

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[Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol 1
by Frank Lanitz 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Geany Newsletter ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Volume 1 CC-BY -- The Geany-Newsletter team Table of Contents ----------------- 1 Geany 0.20 has been released 2 Geany-Plugins 0.20 have beenreleased 2.1 New plugins 2.1.1 UpdateChecker 2.1.2 WebHelper 2.2 Updates & Bugfixes 2.2.1 GeanyExtraSel 2.2.2 GeanyGenDoc 2.2.3 GeanyLaTeX 2.2.4 TreeBrowser 3 Geany-Development 3.1 Update to Scintilla 2.22 3.2 Further patches 3.2.1 Support for COBOL 4 Plugins 4.1 New plugins to Geany-Plugins-project 4.1.1 Tableconvert 4.1.2 Debugger 4.1.3 GeanyPG 5 Geany Universe 5.1 New Mailing List – geany-newsletter-commits 5.2 New team member – Colomban Wendling 5.3 Geany local 5.3.1 Geany at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011 (March 19th, 20th) 6 Let us introduce you.... 6.1 Plugin Focus 6.1.1 File Browser 6.2 Feature Focus 6.2.1 Comments formatting 7 Contact Editorial --------- Welcome to the first Geany newsletter with highlights of the last few weeks during Geany development and use. This newsletter is not intended to give a complete overview of Geany news, but is trying to collect the most important items. Have fun and happy coding! 1 Geany 0.20 has been released ------------------------------- On January 2011, the 6th version 0.20 of Geany "Disra" was released. As always the release contained a number of bug fixes as well as improvements and new features. Some of the highlights: * Improve compatibility with GVfs using GIO to save documents (Alexey Antipov). * Fix occasional crashes when closing a modified document and choosing Save. * Reorganize Find in Files dialog and add Files pattern to filter search results. * Show mimetype icon in sidebar Documents list and notebook popup menu (Colomban Wendling). * Add per-document indent width setting (Jiri Techet). * Fix passing quoted arguments when using ’Send Selection to’. This means e.g. sed ’s/\./(dot)/g’ now works. * Add alternative color scheme based on Python colors (View-Editor-Color Schemes - not all filetypes supported yet). * Auto-indent after an HTML/XML line without a closing tag (Eugene Arshinov). * Add Forth filetype (Thomas Huth). * Add Lisp filetype (Mário Silva). * Add Erlang filetype (Taylor Venable). * Add translations: kk. * Update translations: cs, de, en_GB, es, fi, fr, hu, ja, nl, pt, sl, sv, tr, zh_CN. 2 Geany-Plugins 0.20 have been released ---------------------------------------- Shortly after the release of Geany the Geany-Plugins collection was released with version 0.20. This collection includes a number of useful plugins, not shipped with Geany itself. This release is the result of about 6 months of development work and so it has quite a number of changes and some new plugins: 2.1 New plugins ================ 2.1.1 UpdateChecker ******************** UpdateChecker implements a check for new releases of Geany and notifies the user when one is available. It’s based on libsoup and can be configured to check during startup or on request. 2.1.2 WebHelper **************** WebHelper is a plugin that provides some web development facilities, such as a web page preview and some debugging tools (web inspector). The plugin implements the following features: * A basic web view, allowing the display of any web page (using WebKit); * Possible automatic reloading of the web view upon document saving; * A web inspector/debugging tool for the web view’s content (including a JavaScript console, a viewer and editor of processed HTML and CSS, a network usage analysis tool and many more, thanks to WebKit). 2.2 Updates & Bugfixes ======================= Also there have been a lot of bugfixes and updates on plugins. For further details please check the Release notes and/or the ChangeLog of plugins. A few selected changes are: 2.2.1 GeanyExtraSel ******************** * Respect ’Smart’ home key (Geany does now). * Fixed Scintilla Shift+movement key conversion of rectangle selection. * Virtual spaces support. * Per-file column mode. * Added "Set Anchor", "Select to Anchor" and "Rectangle Select to Anchor". 2.2.2 GeanyGenDoc ****************** * Bump dependency on CTPL to 0.3. * Add a popup menu for common actions in the documentation type selector. * Fix indentation of inserted documentation blocs. * Documentation type now defaults to Doxygen (rather than nothing). * Add policy PASS to completely ignore a symbol. * Add basic rules for PHP. * Fix build against GTK+ 2.16. * Don’t copy the system configuration file to the user’s one when hitting "Edit Current Language Configuration", only write it when saving changes. 2.2.3 GeanyLaTeX ***************** * Move LaTeX-menu to a separate menu inside Geany main menu. * Add a feature to auto-capitalize letters on typing the beginning of a sentence. * Add a way to put an icon for LaTeX-wizard into Geany’s main toolbar. * Added a dialog for inserting BibTeX references based on available *.bib- files. 2.2.4 TreeBrowser ****************** * Added bookmarks support. * Added keybindings support. * Added mime type icons in the tree. * Many bugfixes and code improvements. 3 Geany-Development -------------------- After the 0.20 release the development has slowed down a bit but nevertheless, some changes did happen: 3.1 Update to Scintilla 2.22 ============================= Right after the release of Geany 0.20 with Subversion r5521 an updated version of Scintilla was been merged from the unstable branch into trunk. Geany trunk is now running with version 2.22 of the Scintilla editing component. 3.2 Further patches ==================== 3.2.1 Support for COBOL ************************ At the end of January 2011 a patch was committed to Geany trunk which enabled COBOL support inside Geany. Now it’s possible to use features like syntax highlighting for this language. 4 Plugins ---------- It was a quite active time right after the 0.20 release on the plugin development side. 4.1 New plugins to Geany-Plugins-project ========================================= 4.1.1 Tableconvert ******************+ After a little chaos with naming, the new plugin Tableconvert was added to the development version of the Geany-Plugins. It offers a way to convert tab separated lists (e.g. imported from Microsoft Excel or LibreOffice Calc) into a table. Currently the plugin supports HTML and LATEX tables. 4.1.2 Debugger *************** The Debugger plugin has added a second binding for gdb to the Geany-Plugins project. 4.1.3 GeanyPG ************** With GeanyPG Hans Alves submitted a new plugin to geany-plugins project which adds support for signing, encrypting and decryption of text files opened in Geany. 5 Geany Universe ----------------- 5.1 New Mailing List – geany-newsletter-commits ================================================ When the geany-newsletter project was started, a new commit mailing was created. The goal of this list is to notify all interested people whenever a new commit has taken place inside the geany-newsletter git repository. As always you can find the list via http://www.geany.org/Support/MailingList 5.2 New team member – Colomban Wendling ======================================== In March 2011, Colomban Wendling joined the Geany core team. Over the last few years he has submitted a lot of patches. He did a great job during the last month - e.g. building up a tagmanager-in-memory patchset as well as providing a big number of patches and providing support on both the mailing list as well as IRC. Welcome Colomban! 5.3 Geany local ================ 5.3.1 Geany at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011 (March 19th, 20th) ************************************************************ On the coming weekend (around March 19th, 20th) there will be a local Linux and FOSS convention in Chemnitz, Germany. Some of the Geany guys will be around and have a little booth at the event. So if you are nearby, come join us for a chat. You will find us next to the Xfce guys. Details for this convention can be find on their homepage at http:// chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/ 6 Let us introduce you.... --------------------------- This section is intended to introduce particular plugins or features on a regular basis. 6.1 Plugin Focus ================= 6.1.1 File Browser ******************* The File Browser plugins adds to the sidebar a tab with which you can browser files and folders. By default it shows the contents of the folder containing the first file opened in Geany. You can navigate to other drives and folders using any of the options available at the very top of the tab: * Up: Navigates to one folder higher in the file system. * Home: Navigates to your Home folder. * Set path from document: Sets the active folder to the one containing the current active document. * Folder input box: Here you can enter any path you want to see in the File Browser. As you type the path it will offer autocompletion of the folder’s name. Also at the top of the tab is the Filter input box in which you can enter a file specification of those files you want to appear in the File Browser. The file specifications must be quite simple - e.g. g*.py or *.xml. Regular expressions are not supported. To clear the filter either click on the icon at the right of the Filter input box or empty the Filter box and press [Enter]. 6.2 Feature Focus ================== 6.2.1 Comments formatting ************************** When writing source code or in a markup language, it’s often necessary to mark one or more lines as a comment. Geany offers several functions from the Edit -> Format sub-menu which make this very easy: * Comment Line(s) * Uncomment Line(s) * Toggle Line Commentation To use these options on a single line, put the cursor on that line and select the menu option. To use them on a block of code, select the whole block then select the menu option. The Toggle Line Commentation menu option will, as its name suggests, add comment markers to a normal line/section of code and, if the line/section is already a comment, remove the comment markers. What’s great about these options is that they insert or remove the comment markers applicable to the type of file being edited. This means that you can focus on the content of what you’re editing instead of having to worry about getting the comment markers right. This is precisely Geany’s aim: to make coding easier and faster without getting in your way. 7 Contact ---------- If you like to contribute to the newsletter, make a request or complaint about content please contact frank(a)geany.org via email.

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[Geany] how to change syntax highlighting color for multiline comment block
by luca＠email.com 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hi guys, I succeeded in installing set_geany_colors tool and change the syntax highlighting color of geany in a satisfying way according to my taste except multiline comment blocks example <<COMMENT this is a multiline comment block hello world! COMMENT this will be highlighted in violet on violet/light-gray background I cannot find how to change this. Even changing the colorscheme by loading any other conf file using set_geany_colors Any color will change but not this one. Which is the key to add / change? I took a look at the manual without luck! Thank you for any help Cheers Luca

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[Geany] Reduce indentation in the symbol list
by Harold Aling 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Once, I had a .gtkrc file that reduced the whitespace/indentation in the symbol list, but it got lost some time ago. Unfortunately, I can't seem to recreate it so I was wondering if any of you guys could help me out. I like to reduce the indentation of the symbol list as much as possible, if the list can be set to non-collapsible, that would be even nicer! (I never fold anything in the list, so it's a waste of space) I've seen the manual at http://www.geany.org/manual/current/#defining-own-widget-styles-using-gtkrc… but since my GTK knowledge is limited to how you spell it, I'm completely lost at hacking at that file... Cheers, Harold

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[Geany] missing default theme after installing codebrainz's geany-themes
by Joerg Desch 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hello Matthew. On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:43:46 -0800 Matthew Brush <matthewbrush(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Also, check out my geany-themes project here: > https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes Nice project. I haven't seen it before, so I gave it a try. But with some smaller problems... I've copied most of the filedefs into .config/geany/filedefs and all colorschemes to .config/geany/colorschemes. After this, I started geany (0.20 on ubuntu karmic). Because I have never used a colorscheme before, it comes up this "Standard". And this isn't the same as the style before! Most hilighting is gone, comments are red and all remaining text is simply black. The other schemes seems to work as expected. What's my mistake? And why are all "doc-commects" equal to normal comments? -- Email: Joerg Desch <jd DOT vvd AT web DOT de>

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[Geany] Bug in template {filename} evaluation ?
by Len Philpot 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

I don't know if this is the place to talk about possible bugs in a nightly build. If not, please direct me to the proper place. With that said... Geany 0.21 "Gromia", built Feb 25 2011, RHEL6, Xfce 4.6 When saving a new file created from a template, the expansion of {filename} in the header doesn't always accurately reflect the filename used when saving. For example in the following tests you can see where some of the {filename} wildcards expanded with an extra extension appended to the filename. Then again, I could be doing something wrong... ? Template Saved as {filename} expansion file.html x.html x.html.html file.php x.php x.php.php file.pl x.pl x.pl.pl main.cpp x.cpp x.cpp.cpp file.sh x.sh x.sh main.c x.c x.c file.html y y.html file.php y y.php file.pl y y.pl main.cpp y y.cpp file.sh y y main.c y y From this simple test it appears the sh and c templates are the only ones being named properly upon saving. These are customized templates, but I can find no suspicous difference betwen those that work and those that don't. Here are the actual templates, if that helps : --------------------------------------------------------------------------- file.html  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>{untitled}</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="generator" content="{geanyversion}" /> </head> <body> </body> </html> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- file.php <?php /* * {filename} * {developer} ({mail}) * {company} * Created {datetime} */ ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>{untitled}</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="generator" content="{geanyversion}" /> </head> <body> </body> </html> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- file.pl #!/usr/bin/perl # {filename} # {developer} ({mail}) # {company} # Created {datetime} =pod =cut use strict; use warnings; --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- main.cpp // {filename} // {developer} ({mail}) // {company} // Created {datetime} #include <iostream> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { return 0; } --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- file.sh #!/bin/bash # {filename} # {developer} ({mail}) # {company} # Created {datetime} --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- main.c /* * {filename} * {developer} ({mail}) * {company} * Created {datetime} */ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { return EXIT_SUCCESS; } --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks! -- Len Philpot - l e n @ p h i l p o t . o r g (no spaces) ><> http://philpot.org/ - http://lphilpot.zenfolio.com Read my story: http://www.mostimportantthing.org

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[Geany] Welcome a new Geany developer: Colomban Wendling
by Enrico Tröger 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Hi all, we have great news today: The Geany developer team got a new member: Colomban Wendling. Please welcome him! Some of you might have noticed things didn't go as fast in the past weeks in Geany's development as they should have been. This is mostly because me and Nick currently don't have as much spare time as we want or other problems keeping us away from Geany development. The more happy we are, Colomban joined the Geany development team and so hopefully, development will go faster again and you can enjoy new features, new bugs, er, bug fixes and an overall better experience when using Geany :D. Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc

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