On 07/23/2007 06:46:28 PM, Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote:

I have written a very basic Lua scripting plugin for Geany.

So far, it is only able to do a few simple things:

1. Create a Tools menu showing a list of scripts

from the user's config folder, e.g. ~/.geany/lua/.

2. Retrieve and/or modify the current document's text

and/or selection.

Sounds great!

In order to achieve this, I needed to expose a few more functions to the plugin API:

document_get_current() sci_get_text() sci_get_length() sci_replace_sel() sci_get_selected_text() sci_get_selected_text_length() utils_get_file_list()

So before I go any further, some questions:

Will it be OK to expose this stuff?

Yes, thanks for the patch. Committed in SVN.

Any ideas for other "must have" script functions?

I'm not sure, I haven't really used scripting in other editors. With the plugin API I'm just adding common functions as needed or as requested.

The attached patch adds the functions mentioned above, I hope post the code for the plugin soon, but I still have a bit of clean up to do and maybe write some simple docs for using it.

If you have any questions/requests for improving the plugin system, just ask.

Also note that since the patch is only preliminary/tenative, it doesn't bump the API/ABI version numbers like it should.

API version is now 6.

Regards, Nick