On 5 November 2013 13:11, James Brierley <jmb8710@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys,

Just to say, I definitely think that extending Geany to support microcontrollers and embedded development is a good idea -- I'm an Arduino user myself and I can't stand the supplied (so-called) 'IDE'.

But -- just a suggestion -- I think it would be better to implement this through plugins, rather than forking Geany or deriving something completely separate. What I like about Geany is that it's quite modular, and I think it's worth taking advantage of this.

Yes, such specific modifications to core probably will not be merged back into the upstream Geany.  But even very specific plugins can be part of geany-plugins.
 

Regarding having a listing of the assembly instructions, registers etc. of an MCU, I'm wondering if it might be better to work with Geany's 'tags' functionality. See for instance /usr/share/geany/filetypes.c and http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#tags. I admit that I haven't really looked into how the API interacts with tags files or whether it would be possible to augment them with any kind of documentation, etc.

Sadly no augmentation is available.

 

I don't think a database is necessarily the worst idea, but a WebKit datasheet viewer would seem to make more sense... isn't 'the cloud' where it's at these days? ;)

Thats what they say, but I don't believe it </luddite>
 

By the way, I'm not a Geany developer, just a layman in the Cult of Geany.

:)

Cheers
Lex
 


James

--
"Unix is the worst computer operating system, except
all the others that have been tried."

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