Hi! Really want to like Geany. =) Just found it, currently using sublime text 2. But while I like it, it's not so smooth, keeps pegging out our cpu's while it needlessly updates unedited files in the sidebar. So we are looking for something else. Have been using Dreamweaver, but is way clumsy and slow.
Would like to release Geany to all our developers out there, but there seem to be some development process holes. Maybe people can suggest/help.
Being a PHP software dev/product we do a lot of php editing locally, then move to test locally and then ftp those changes out to various servers. Sometimes we edit a half dozen files in a release and so we just want to release those instead of pushing a full product release out to the web.
So far I haven't found any way to copy a file in Geany from one directory local dev to another directory local test. In fact I haven't found any way at all to copy a file in any way at all. Only new and save or save as. This is a big hole in development because lots if not most people develop in a dev directory, then move that to test. Using php we like to test on the fly, meaning we have to move the files to test and we don't want to have to edit them directly in test or our changes will be lost. Having to constantly move out of Geany over and over again to move or copy a file using a file manager is really painful. Makes any of the joy disappear.
This seems like a really easy thing. Any help? Thoughts?
Thanks!
To give you some context, we are #1 on google if you do a search on "Social Publishing Software". But we can't release this without a viable copy option. =) Or a local move/ftp option.
Note: this may be available, and it may be that we're just too new to find it so any help is much appreciated. Geany is almost great, but this and no ftp make it really unwieldy for day to day use by web developers. Who don't want to overwrite their production files on editing.
If we can at least use Geany to develop in dev and then copy to test. We would be golden for the moment. FTP would be nice too. =)
Thanks for any help and the cool software,
-Colin
MediaBlinkk
Am 20.07.2013 16:13, schrieb Colin:
This seems like a really easy thing. Any help? Thoughts?
Copying from inside Geany is not yet possible. Maybe the treeviewer/filebrowser plugin will support it some time. IMHO you should use an external tool for doing this anyway. On Windows I had some good experience with WindowsCommander for such things.
Cheers, Frank
Hi Frank thanks for the quick note back. Much appreciated!
Thanks again, like I said just a few show stoppers missing before we could recommend it to our group of web developers.
I'm going to remove us from the list as we continue our search, thanks again for the help.
And we'll look forward to seeing Geany again maybe later on. For now it just seems to have 3 or 4 show stoppers for web development and web languages.
Cheers,
-Colin
IMHO
A lot of programming nowadays is iterative, well all web programming tends to be. Code editors need to support this as things start to change towards that. Most PHP tends to be. Think of constantly jumping in and out of Geany, to use another program for file management just to move a file or a half dozen files you just edited, so you can test them locally, and then having to do it over and over again, jumping in and out, again and again. Yikes, time eater. =) Again no dis to Geany. The world's just changing, what used to be ok for compilable languages just isn't the best for non compilable ones where you want to save time. Or where your shop is smaller and mobile.
-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@lists.geany.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.geany.org] On Behalf Of Frank Lanitz Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 11:01 AM To: users@lists.geany.org Subject: Re: [Geany-Users] Hi! New to Geany. How does one develop in local directory, then move file inside geany to test?
Am 20.07.2013 16:13, schrieb Colin:
This seems like a really easy thing. Any help? Thoughts?
Copying from inside Geany is not yet possible. Maybe the treeviewer/filebrowser plugin will support it some time. IMHO you should use an external tool for doing this anyway. On Windows I had some good experience with WindowsCommander for such things.
Cheers, Frank