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Re: [Geany-Users] proper upgrade technique
by Lex Trotman 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Please do not reply directly, keep the discussion on the list. Also please use plain text emails. Cheers Lex On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 01:42, Mike McCauley <mlmccauley50(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 11/8/20 10:21 PM, Lex Trotman wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 10:45, Mike McCauley <mlmccauley50(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Under Ubuntu Linux, what is the recommended technique to upgrade Geany > as newer versions are released? > > All I've been able to find online is info on how to do an initial > install, and some upgrade suggestions that didn't work. > > Thats because there is no such thing as an "upgrade" of Geany, a new > install replaces the old install (unless specially built to not do > that, which (AFAIK) no distros do). > > > > Understood. > > I'm relatively new to Linux, so I'm not aware of some of these conventions. Good to know this. > > I've put a ton of time into customizing my install, and I for sure don't > want to screw up and have an "upgrade trick" wipe all that out. > > An upgrade won't touch any customising you did in your local configure > directories, but if you are one of those people who customised the > system files then yes it will overwrite them. In that case you need > to copy the changes to a non-system configuration first and don't > touch system files again. > > > > If I'm interpreting your remarks correctly, I'm OK. > > I did NOT alter any of the build files for the package, I did a plain vanilla default install. All of what I've done subsequent to that is purely configuration setup, mainly coloration and keyword info in a new config file for a Geany-unsupported compiler that I frequently use for developing embedded system code for PIC processors. > > So, as I understand, what I need to do is simply perform the "new install" procedure again, and none of my configuration work will be altered. Nothing I added will be deleted, only the install-created config files will be overwritten. > > > I am only in interested in installing stable code, not bleeding edge > development versions. > > Distro versions are usually releases so thats as stable as it gets. > That doesn't mean that there are no issues with a release, but by the > time it has percolated through most distro systems it should be fairly > stable so long as its the latest micro point release for the platform > (1.37.0 for Linux, 1.37.1 for Windows as this is written). > > If you want to upgrade bypassing the distro system, you can build > yourself with a different prefix so it doesn't overwrite an existing > version, thats how developers maintain multiple versions. > > Cheers > Lex > > > > Understood. > > All I'm interested in is availing myself of enhancements and bug fixes. I have no interest in having anything other than the latest stable rev installed on my machine. > > Thanks a lot for the help! > > Mike > > > > > Thanks in advance! > > Mike > > REF: Ubuntu 20.04, Geany 1.36 > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)lists.geany.org > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)lists.geany.org > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users > >

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Thanks!
by Mike McCauley 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Thanks to all who replied to my request for upgrade assistance. Your comments were very helpful, and generally educational. Good stuff! Mike

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[ANN] Geany 1.37.1 is out!
by Colomban Wendling 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

We are happy to announce a new release of Geany! This is a bug fix release following the recent release of Geany 1.37. On Windows, Geany crashed on startup without an existing configuration file. This release fixes this bug and Geany will startup normally again. Other operating systems were not affected. As usual, all downloads can be found on https://www.geany.org/download/releases/. - Colomban

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automatically show "Read Only" when opening root owned
by bendov＠gmx.com 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

I thought Geany automatically showed "Read Only" in title bar, on opening root owned or protected files, or it changed the tab background or text. From the menu, you can manually mark a file read-only & it changes the tab text to green - for me. I want it to prominently auto-indicate RO files, when I open them. In the manual, https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#customizing-geany-s-appeara… -says, "/To override GTK+ CSS styles, you can use traditional mechanisms or you can create a file named //geany.css//in the user configuration directory (usually //~/.config/geany//)/..." "/Geany offers a number of CSS IDs ("properties"?) which can be used to //taylor//[tailor] its //appearence//appearance. Among the more interesting include:/ "/geany-document-status-/*/readyonly/**/`/*/- the style for document tab labels when the document is read-only"/ [Note: the backward mark (grave) after "read*y*only" AND the extra 'y' in line above are probably typos]? "Style for... tab labels" - means changing text color, weight and style: "color: #FFFF00;" "font-style: italic;" Tried common syntax changes for this - not working. Should it be "readonly", or maybe "read-only?" Tried both - no change. I assume the css property / selector should have a period or # mark in front of "geany-document-status-read...?" In my ~/.config/geany directory there's a "gtk-3.0" folder. I don't remember if I created it. There is a geany.css file in it w/ some -GtkScrollbar properties (that don't seem to affect Geany). In Preferences/Various, the STATUSBAR template line has %w (to show mode RO or INS or OVR). Doesn't recognize read-only (root) files, until I manually set it to RO via the menu. Then status bar shows RO. Thanks!

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[ANN] Geany-Plugins 1.37 is out!
by Frank Lanitz 25 Oct '20

25 Oct '20

Hello friends of Geany, We are happy to announce a new version of the combined Geany-Plugins release -- following the Geany 1.37 release, Geany-Plugins 1.37 is being released, too. Some highlights: * Updated translations: de, es, nl, pt, tr * Addons: Improve sizes of color calltip * Autoclose: Remove all pairing quotes * GeanyVC: Add support for Fossil SCM * GeanyVC: Allow to toggle single files with Space and Return keys in commit dialog * GitChangebar: Add compatibility with libgit2 0.99 * LaTeX: Indent line in new environment * PairTagHighligher: Allow to select a matching tag * ProjectOrganizer: Make showing empty directories in the sidebar configurable * ProjectOrganizer: Add a keybinding for focusing the sidebar * ProjectOrganizer: Re-read base path when updating project * Vimmode: Don't use word navigation from Scintilla * Vimmode: Make o/O respect auto indentation A more complete list of changes can be found at NEWS at https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins/releases/tag/1.37.0. This is the last major release supporting both GTK+2 and Windows i686 binary builds. Starting with the next release, Geany-Plugins 2.0(not yet set ;)) will require GTK3 and Windows binary builds are provided only for the x86_64 architecture. As usual, you can find source tarballs and Windows installer for the new release on https://plugins.geany.org. A huge thanks to everybody contributing to this great release. Happy coding :) Frank

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[ANN] Geany 1.37 is out!
by Colomban Wendling 25 Oct '20

25 Oct '20

We are happy to announce a new release of Geany! For a comprehensive list of changes please see: https://www.geany.org/documentation/releasenotes/ Some highlights: * Save main and project configuration whenever documents are opened/closed to reduce accidental loss of current session in the event of a crash (can be disabled). * Fix a possible crash when quitting (Hodong & Guido Falsi). * Show OS info in debug messages which can and should be included in bug reports to ease support and debugging. * Update Scintilla to version 3.21.1. * Add BibTeX (Mirco Schoenfeld) and Smalltalk (Snowflake the Pony). * Update FreeBasic, JavaScript (dmitryunruh), Lua (Filip Szymański) and Python filetypes. * Support programming ligatures (like Fira Code font) on Windows. * New translations: ie * Updated translations: da, de, el, es, fr, id, it, ja, lv, nl, pl, pt, ru, sk, sv, zh_CN This is the last release supporting GTK+2 and Windows i686 binary builds. Starting with the next release, Geany will require GTK3, a C++17 compiler (like GCC 7.3 or Clang 4.0) and Windows binary builds will only be provided for the x86_64 architecture. We want to thank all developers, translators and everyone who contributed to this release with patches, feedback, bug reports and so on. Thank you! As usual, all downloads can be found on https://www.geany.org/download/releases/. - Colomban

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JavaScript and class syntax
by Claude Paroz 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

Hi, I'm currently using Geany 1.33 (from Debian stable) and I'm very annoyed by the Symbols pane not showing properly class hierarchy when using the JavaScript class syntax, like: class MyClass { constructor(param) {} otherFunc() {...} } I'm only getting a single "class" symbol (for all classes) and cannot browse anything inside it. Is this something fixed in recent versions of Geany (or any underlying library)? Is it possible to do anything to improve my current situation while staying with the Debian stable version or do I have to compile some sources? Thanks for any help. Claude -- www.2xlibre.net

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running scripts close on hitting F5
by Rajarshi Saha 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

Hi, I am using Debian 10.6, Geany 1.33. I use Geany to run various scripts by hitting F5. I am not sure what version I was on before, but now suppose I have a script running. Then later from the same window (instance?) if I want to start another script and I hit F5, it kills all my running scripts that I have starter from Geany by hitting F5. Usually I have two instances of Geany running and trying to start a script from any one window kills other running scripts. To note, I can start a bunch on scripts together. Running scripts get closed when I try to start another script after sometime. The scripts usually are php scripts and I do my day-end database ops, when the scripts get killed I have to open mariadb and monitor processlist, wait for long running queries to finish before I can trigger the rest of the queries. What can do to solve this? Thanks for your help!

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Happy birthday ;)
by Frank Lanitz 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

Well..... 15 years ago, version 0.1 of Geany was published. It's beeeeeeeen long time ;) > 2005-10-19 Enrico Troeger <enrico(dot)troeger(at)uvena(dot)de> > > * first release - Geany 0.1 "Freyborn"

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CannotReduceTemplatesFiles
by Geoff Kaniuk 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

Hello Geany List, I am running Geany 1.36 (GTK2) - built from source. The system templates located at /usr/local/share/geany/templates/files contains 13 templates. I have reduced my ~/.config/geany/templates/files to just 7 files. When I create a new file via File>New(with Template), I am offered 20 files, but I was expecting my simplified list. Is there any other configuration I am missing? Many thanks. -- Geoff 33 Ashbury Close, Cambridge CB1 3RW 01223 710582

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