Dear developers,
1. I am using geany in colour-inverted mode, but I do not think this is essential to the problem. When I open a file with un-recognised extension, say .txt, is has type "None" and is black-on-white. When I switch the file type to, say, "Config file" is becomes colour-inverted, as it should have been when opened. Switching back to "None" keeps it colour-inverted, again as it is expected to be. Thus, to see a None-type file in correct colour (white-on-black) I have to switch its type to something and then back to "None". Minor nuisance or feature?
2. Any plans for splitting page?
Thanks again for the great tool - geany is my editor of choice for already 8 months.
Cheers,
Misha
On 3/9/07, Mikhail Savitsky mikhail.savitsky@gmail.com wrote:
Dear developers,
- I am using geany in colour-inverted mode, but I do not think this is
essential to the problem. When I open a file with un-recognised extension, say .txt, is has type "None" and is black-on-white. When I switch the file type to, say, "Config file" is becomes colour-inverted, as it should have been when opened. Switching back to "None" keeps it colour-inverted, again as it is expected to be. Thus, to see a None-type file in correct colour (white-on-black) I have to switch its type to something and then back to "None". Minor nuisance or feature?
Misha, I've got the same issue. Though, I'm not using "color-inverted" mode -- instead, I've got some custom dark-themed low-contrast filetypes files set up (moved to http://www.milliwatt-software.com/jmg/files/colors_to_hex.tar.gz from /temp BTW).
Seems like it would be nice if there were a filetypes.none file where I could just set foreground and background. I tried copying ~/opt/share/geany/filetypes.common to my ~/.geany/filedefs with just having these lines:
[styling] default=0xf0f0f0;0x5f5f5f;false;false
but that didn't help.
- Any plans for splitting page?
Oooh. Another feature that would be handy. I got used to split-window in Emacs (and jEdit too) and now I'm a bit spoiled. :)
---John
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:38:18 -0500, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/9/07, Mikhail Savitsky mikhail.savitsky@gmail.com wrote:
Dear developers,
- I am using geany in colour-inverted mode, but I do not think
this is essential to the problem. When I open a file with un-recognised extension, say .txt, is has type "None" and is black-on-white. When I switch the file type to, say, "Config file" is becomes colour-inverted, as it should have been when opened. Switching back to "None" keeps it colour-inverted, again as it is expected to be. Thus, to see a None-type file in correct colour (white-on-black) I have to switch its type to something and then back to "None". Minor nuisance or feature?
Misha, I've got the same issue. Though, I'm not using "color-inverted" mode -- instead, I've got some custom dark-themed low-contrast filetypes files set up (moved to http://www.milliwatt-software.com/jmg/files/colors_to_hex.tar.gz from /temp BTW).
Seems like it would be nice if there were a filetypes.none file where I could just set foreground and background. I tried copying
Should we add one? Is it necessary? At the moment, the only values for filetype None are the fore- and background colour which are by default black and white(and in the last SVN version the other way around if invert_all is set). But we can also add the file filetype.none with just the one line to change the fore- and background colours.
- Any plans for splitting page?
Oooh. Another feature that would be handy. I got used to split-window in Emacs (and jEdit too) and now I'm a bit spoiled. :)
I really don't like it. Yesterday, Tim Tassonis mentioned "We don't want another emacs, do we?" ;-).
Well, I'm not completely against the split-window feature but I don't see a reasonably way to implement it beside the current way of tab positioning(read: the notebook tabs).
Regards, Enrico
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On 3/9/07, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:38:18 -0500, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/9/07, Mikhail Savitsky mikhail.savitsky@gmail.com wrote:
Dear developers,
- I am using geany in colour-inverted mode, but I do not think
this is essential to the problem. When I open a file with un-recognised extension, say .txt, is has type "None" and is black-on-white. When I switch the file type to, say, "Config file" is becomes colour-inverted, as it should have been when opened. Switching back to "None" keeps it colour-inverted, again as it is expected to be. Thus, to see a None-type file in correct colour (white-on-black) I have to switch its type to something and then back to "None". Minor nuisance or feature?
Misha, I've got the same issue. Though, I'm not using "color-inverted" mode -- instead, I've got some custom dark-themed low-contrast filetypes files set up (moved to http://www.milliwatt-software.com/jmg/files/colors_to_hex.tar.gz from /temp BTW).
Seems like it would be nice if there were a filetypes.none file where I could just set foreground and background. I tried copying
Should we add one? Is it necessary? At the moment, the only values for filetype None are the fore- and background colour which are by default black and white(and in the last SVN version the other way around if invert_all is set). But we can also add the file filetype.none with just the one line to change the fore- and background colours.
I just grabbed and built r1378. When I open up a README, it's the same as before (black fg on white bg). But now I can't fiddle around (switching filetype) and get my nice dark bg light fg back!
I tried creating a ~/.geany/filedefs/filetypes.none file containing only:
[styling] # foreground;background;bold;italic default=0xf0f0f0;0x5f5f5f;false;false
and restarted Geany, but it doesn't seem to read it. It would be great if you could add a filetypes.none so I can read generic files with the same bg/fg as the rest of my files. :)
- Any plans for splitting page?
Oooh. Another feature that would be handy. I got used to split-window in Emacs (and jEdit too) and now I'm a bit spoiled. :)
I really don't like it. Yesterday, Tim Tassonis mentioned "We don't want another emacs, do we?" ;-).
Well, I'm not completely against the split-window feature but I don't see a reasonably way to implement it beside the current way of tab positioning(read: the notebook tabs).
Split windows is useful for me because I sometimes need to read what's on one side while typing into the other. Maybe I'm copying-but-modifying a bit of text or code that I'd rather not copy/paste, or more likely I'm reading some docs in a text file while doing what it's describing. The alternative to this is to have the 2nd file open in a pager in a terminal window, and then either Alt-Tab between the terminal and Geany, or else stick the other window on another virtual desktop and Ctrl-Alt-Arrow back and forth (which is a bit jarring).
The 2nd common use of split windows for me is when editing two parts of a given file simultaneously. This mostly happens when adding POD docs to a Perl script -- the POD is often at the bottom, but the function I'm documenting is somewhere in the middle of the file. Split window lets me look at the thing I'm documenting while writing the docs.
---John
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:21:13 -0500, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/9/07, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:38:18 -0500, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/9/07, Mikhail Savitsky mikhail.savitsky@gmail.com wrote:
Dear developers,
- I am using geany in colour-inverted mode, but I do not think
this is essential to the problem. When I open a file with un-recognised extension, say .txt, is has type "None" and is black-on-white. When I switch the file type to, say, "Config file" is becomes colour-inverted, as it should have been when opened. Switching back to "None" keeps it colour-inverted, again as it is expected to be. Thus, to see a None-type file in correct colour (white-on-black) I have to switch its type to something and then back to "None". Minor nuisance or feature?
Misha, I've got the same issue. Though, I'm not using "color-inverted" mode -- instead, I've got some custom dark-themed low-contrast filetypes files set up (moved to http://www.milliwatt-software.com/jmg/files/colors_to_hex.tar.gz from /temp BTW).
Seems like it would be nice if there were a filetypes.none file where I could just set foreground and background. I tried copying
Should we add one? Is it necessary? At the moment, the only values for filetype None are the fore- and background colour which are by default black and white(and in the last SVN version the other way around if invert_all is set). But we can also add the file filetype.none with just the one line to change the fore- and background colours.
I just grabbed and built r1378. When I open up a README, it's the same as before (black fg on white bg). But now I can't fiddle around
Do you use invert_all? If so, it should work.
(switching filetype) and get my nice dark bg light fg back!
I tried creating a ~/.geany/filedefs/filetypes.none file containing only:
[styling] # foreground;background;bold;italic default=0xf0f0f0;0x5f5f5f;false;false
and restarted Geany, but it doesn't seem to read it. It would be great
Ok, I added the style "default" to filetypes.common (SVN r1380). Now, it should work as expected.
Regards, Enrico
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On 3/9/07, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:21:13 -0500, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
I just grabbed and built r1378. When I open up a README, it's the same as before (black fg on white bg). But now I can't fiddle around
Do you use invert_all? If so, it should work.
No. I figure that would jumble up (invert) all the nice colors I carefully chose for everything.
(switching filetype) and get my nice dark bg light fg back!
I tried creating a ~/.geany/filedefs/filetypes.none file containing only:
[styling] # foreground;background;bold;italic default=0xf0f0f0;0x5f5f5f;false;false
and restarted Geany, but it doesn't seem to read it. It would be great
Ok, I added the style "default" to filetypes.common (SVN r1380). Now, it should work as expected.
Thanks. It works, except that now it changes the left margin background (only for this document's pane) to be a lighter shade of gray than the rest of them, and also (again, only for this pane) makes the left margin line numbers foreground white (or maybe the same almost-white as my document foreground?).
---John
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:38:02 -0500, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Ok, I added the style "default" to filetypes.common (SVN r1380). Now, it should work as expected.
Thanks. It works, except that now it changes the left margin background (only for this document's pane) to be a lighter shade of gray than the rest of them, and also (again, only for this pane) makes the left margin line numbers foreground white (or maybe the same almost-white as my document foreground?).
I think this should be fixed now(SVN r1391). Hopefully, it doesn't have any other side effects again ;-).
Regards, Enrico
P.S.: sorry for the late answer.
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On 3/13/07, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:38:02 -0500, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Ok, I added the style "default" to filetypes.common (SVN r1380). Now, it should work as expected.
Thanks. It works, except that now it changes the left margin background (only for this document's pane) to be a lighter shade of gray than the rest of them, and also (again, only for this pane) makes the left margin line numbers foreground white (or maybe the same almost-white as my document foreground?).
I think this should be fixed now(SVN r1391). Hopefully, it doesn't have any other side effects again ;-).
Seems to work great. Thanks. :)
On 03/09/2007 03:55:44 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:38:18 -0500, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/9/07, Mikhail Savitsky mikhail.savitsky@gmail.com wrote:
- Any plans for splitting page?
Oooh. Another feature that would be handy. I got used to
split-window
in Emacs (and jEdit too) and now I'm a bit spoiled. :)
I really don't like it. Yesterday, Tim Tassonis mentioned "We don't want another emacs, do we?" ;-).
Well, I'm not completely against the split-window feature but I don't see a reasonably way to implement it beside the current way of tab positioning(read: the notebook tabs).
I've thought about this before, but not investigated it in detail. I think the feature would be very useful, and there may be a way of implementing it so it doesn't complicate the interface too much.
Scintilla has support for multiple views of a document, so perhaps there could be an optional pane next to the notebook window, with something like a right click menu to select which document to view in the extra pane.
But this is still just an idea, I'm not certain about it, and for me there are other things that take priority.
Regards, Nick
On 3/9/07, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
On 03/09/2007 03:55:44 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:38:18 -0500, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/9/07, Mikhail Savitsky mikhail.savitsky@gmail.com wrote:
- Any plans for splitting page?
Oooh. Another feature that would be handy. I got used to split-window in Emacs (and jEdit too) and now I'm a bit spoiled. :)
I really don't like it. Yesterday, Tim Tassonis mentioned "We don't want another emacs, do we?" ;-).
Well, I'm not completely against the split-window feature but I don't see a reasonably way to implement it beside the current way of tab positioning(read: the notebook tabs).
I've thought about this before, but not investigated it in detail. I think the feature would be very useful, and there may be a way of implementing it so it doesn't complicate the interface too much.
Scintilla has support for multiple views of a document, so perhaps there could be an optional pane next to the notebook window, with something like a right click menu to select which document to view in the extra pane.
But this is still just an idea, I'm not certain about it, and for me there are other things that take priority.
One way to make it much easier to live without split window (on the same document or to deal with 2 different docs) would be if there were a bookmark mechanism coupled with a simple way to toggle back and forth between the two bookmarks. That is, I'd want to be able to set 2 bookmarks, then bounce on, say, Ctrl-M ('M' for "mark" I suppose, since Ctrl-B is taken) to zip back and forth between them.
Incidentally, if I click in the left margin of an editing window, I get a little green plus sign. There's no tooltip for it. What's it for?
---John
On 03/09/2007 05:38:16 PM, John Gabriele wrote:
[...] One way to make it much easier to live without split window (on the same document or to deal with 2 different docs) would be if there were a bookmark mechanism coupled with a simple way to toggle back and forth between the two bookmarks. That is, I'd want to be able to set 2 bookmarks, then bounce on, say, Ctrl-M ('M' for "mark" I suppose, since Ctrl-B is taken) to zip back and forth between them.
I like the idea. Also a keybinding to switch to the last used tab, as has been suggested before. But sometimes it would really help to be able to see different pieces of code side by side, and separate instances are difficult or awkward to manage (at least on a 1024x768 resolution).
Incidentally, if I click in the left margin of an editing window, I get a little green plus sign. There's no tooltip for it. What's it for?
Just as a visual indicator. When the markers margin is hidden those lines have background highlighting (but of course it's not ideal switching the margin on and off to do this. Maybe a keybinding to mark the line would help when the margin is hidden.)
Regards, Nick
On 03/10/2007 12:10:39 PM, Nick Treleaven wrote:
On 03/09/2007 05:38:16 PM, John Gabriele wrote:
[...] One way to make it much easier to live without split window (on the same document or to deal with 2 different docs) would be if there were a bookmark mechanism coupled with a simple way to toggle back and forth between the two bookmarks. That is, I'd want to be able to set 2 bookmarks, then bounce on, say, Ctrl-M ('M' for "mark" I suppose, since Ctrl-B is taken) to zip back and forth between them.
I like the idea. Also a keybinding to switch to the last used tab, as has been suggested before.
Current SVN now has keybindings to switch to the last used tab, toggle a marker on the current line, and go to next/previous marker (in the current document).
HTH, Nick
On 3/15/07, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
On 03/10/2007 12:10:39 PM, Nick Treleaven wrote:
On 03/09/2007 05:38:16 PM, John Gabriele wrote:
[...] One way to make it much easier to live without split window (on the same document or to deal with 2 different docs) would be if there were a bookmark mechanism coupled with a simple way to toggle back and forth between the two bookmarks. That is, I'd want to be able to set 2 bookmarks, then bounce on, say, Ctrl-M ('M' for "mark" I suppose, since Ctrl-B is taken) to zip back and forth between them.
I like the idea. Also a keybinding to switch to the last used tab, as has been suggested before.
Current SVN now has keybindings to switch to the last used tab, toggle a marker on the current line, and go to next/previous marker (in the current document).
Hey! That's a nifty feature. :)
One tiny thing I might add though, is when there's zero markers in a given document, the ``Document --> Remove Markers'' menu item should probably be grayed out (just for that given document, of course).
Also, here's a quick bit of docs (see attached) you might add to the manual.
---John
On 03/15/2007 02:52:22 PM, John Gabriele wrote:
On 3/15/07, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
Current SVN now has keybindings to switch to the last used tab, toggle a marker on the current line, and go to next/previous marker (in the current document).
Hey! That's a nifty feature. :)
One tiny thing I might add though, is when there's zero markers in a given document, the ``Document --> Remove Markers'' menu item should probably be grayed out (just for that given document, of course).
You're right. I'll have a look at this sometime.
Also, here's a quick bit of docs (see attached) you might add to the manual.
Thanks, added to SVN. (I moved it into a new Editing section with some other parts of the documentation).
Regards, Nick
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:18:02 +0100, "Mikhail Savitsky" mikhail.savitsky@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Misha,
- I am using geany in colour-inverted mode, but I do not think this
is essential to the problem.
Well, it is.
When I open a file with un-recognised extension, say .txt, is has type "None" and is black-on-white. When I switch the file type to, say, "Config file" is becomes colour-inverted, as it should have been when opened. Switching back to "None" keeps it colour-inverted, again as it is expected to be. Thus, to see a None-type file in correct colour (white-on-black) I have to switch its type to something and then back to "None". Minor nuisance or feature?
Let's call it bug. The black-on-white on first opening is wrong, it should be white-on-black. Furthermore, the remaining syntax highlighting when switching back to filetype None is also unintented. Both issues are fixed in SVN r1378. Thanks for reporting.
- Any plans for splitting page?
No, sorry. At least I won't implement anything like this because I really don't like it.
Regards, Enrico
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