-- in case anyone finds it helpful, here is a script to delete from disk -- the document currently being viewed, which is something that some of -- the other text editors out there have a button or menu command for local keys_to_read, path, code, alerts, gloss, i, j geany.banner = "Lua Script: Close and unlink" i = 60 if (geany.count ()
- then
path = geany.filename () keys_to_read = geany.fileinfo () else path = nil keys_to_read = nil end if ((path == nil) or (keys_to_read == nil) or (keys_to_read["changed"])) then alerts = "No saved document to unlink" elseif (keys_to_read["readonly"]) then alerts = "Read-only document cannot be unlinked" else gloss = ("Unlink "" .. path) .. ""?" j = string.len (gloss) if (j < i) then j = i end alerts = gloss .. ("\n" .. string.rep ("_", j)) if (geany.confirm (" ", alerts, false)) then geany.close () code, alerts = os.remove (path) if (code) then alerts = ("Unlinked "" .. path) ..""" else if (alerts == nil) then gloss ="unknown OS error" else gloss = alerts end alerts = ("Unable to unlink "" .. path) .. (("" (" .. gloss) .. ")") end else alerts = "" end end j = string.len (alerts) if j > 0 then if (j < i) then j = i end geany.message (alerts .. ("\n" .. string.rep ("_", j))) end