With the advent of the plugin system i think it would be very useful if geany had a method of firing events for plugins. Right now I have implemented the sci_ functions in the plugin interface but of course this is one way traffic.
One of the things i was hoping for was to be able to hook in the non-standard haxe code completion via the plugin but this would not be possible as the event needs to be fired from editor_start_auto_complete, i.e. initiated on the geany side rather than the plugin side.
If the plugin interface had a means of registering a callback,
plugin_register(AUTO_COMPLETE,myautocompletfunction) ;
which would add myautocompletefunction to a linked list of functions for this event, then in editor_start_auto_complete it could maybe call
plugin_event(AUTOCOMPLETE, params) ;
or something to this effect would be very useful. Ultimately all the on_ functions should do the same, firing events for any registered plugins.
Anyone been thinking along these lines? Similarly for key events too.
thx
bd