Thanks for the info Matthew ... good to know.
Are the necessary changes something that a relatively new c programmer could get a hold on and contribute to? I am going to be learning objective-c in the forseeable future so I'm inclined to try and grok more about C and Geany would be a fun project to do that on... if it's possible to help Geany be better on osx that would be totally cool. Maybe I will try and set up the dev environment up on my osx machine and see how I do.
ps that footnote was epic ... I nearly clicked on the [1], haha.
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Matthew Brush mbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote:
On 12-07-13 04:18 PM, Sean Felipe Wolfe wrote:
Hey everybody,
I started playing around with geany for osx via macports, thanks to this article: http://wiki.geany.org/howtos/osx/running
everything was going great until I realized that I couldn't paste anything. :P I'm able to copy and paste to an external text file. But copying + pasting internally doesn't paste anything. I've tried both keyboard shortcut and pull-down menu option.
This is 0.21 (newest version on macports I believe) with OSX Lion (which sucks) 10.7.4 .
Any help would be appreciated :) Thanks!
Hi,
Geany sucks on OSX[1].
I've done some work locally on improving it but it requires a lot of changes to Geany's code, build system and also some extra GTK+-related dependencies. I'm not confident enough that after spending so much time on making it usable that all of the (many) changes will be accepted into the core of Geany, so I've kind of put it on hold for now.
IIRC, I got to the point of having application menu integration, keybindings working, theme/font integration, plugins working, VTE loading (but not working), and a Geany.app bundle for easy installing and dock icon. The main thing that made me give up was that there's a crasher bug deep inside the Cairo/Quartz code used by Scintilla and I'm not inclined to fix it.
SublimeText2 is pretty nice and not super expensive (has a free demo) if you're looking for a fairly sane alternative to Geany.
Cheers, Matthew Brush
[1] To be fair to Geany, GTK+ also sucks on OSX which accounts for most of Geany's suckiness there. _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list Geany@uvena.de https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany