Em Wed, 31 May 2017 10:57:17 -0000, Lex Trotman <elextr(a)gmail.com> escreveu: Maybe a small warning before entering full screen mode with a hard coded "bring back" shortcut? Sorry for disturbing, I'm not a power user in any sense. Pedro --

Hey there, Lex Trotman wrote: Maybe a happy medium would be something similar to the way the mouse cursor disappears after a few seconds when watching a YouTube video. You could have the menu disappear after a few seconds of inactivity, but show back up again on *any* activity, so it wouldn't matter what a user tried, because everything would bring the menu back. -- Little Girl There is no spoon.

Hey there, John Yeung wrote: You do if you're reading the text. Any time you interact with it in any way you'd have a menu and cursor, etc. If you stop and read, everything but the text goes away. It could be an optional setting that's not enabled by default. I think that's about as close as one can get to a happy medium on something like this. Note: Such a thing is not an option I would enable, but I'm a firm believer in offering users choices, and it's a choice that looks possible to me. -- Little Girl There is no spoon.

Good morning If I can make a small suggestion If you work on Window$, why don't you try an application specially made for this ? Like http://writemonkey.com/ As far as I understood, it's doing everything you want and it's free Regards ericc On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Lex Trotman <elextr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hey there, Peter Popov wrote: There are two ways you could hack it: 1) You could use the Extra Selection plug-in: https://plugins.geany.org/geanyextrasel.html It allows you to select columns of text. What you would do is open another file and press the Tab key once followed by any character. Then select that line, copy it, and paste it several times into the document so that the document is as long as the one you'd like to center. Then go into the Tools menu and enable Column Mode in the Extra Selection sub-menu. Use the Shift and arrow keys at the same time to select the column of tabs. Copy them. Then go to the document you'd like to center the text in and paste them in at the left edge (note that Column Mode doesn't need to be enabled in the target document). Repeat pasting the column in as many times as needed to move the contents to where you'd like them. 2) Another way of doing it would be to write a script that uses a regular expression to insert one or more tabs at the beginning of every line in the document and then run the script on any document you'd like to read in that way. Neither of these are ideal because they require manual user intervention each time, but both would make the text look like your example. If you prefer the first method, you could create a template document that has a very long column of tabs in it so you could open that, enable Column Mode, select the column, and be in business pretty quickly. I've had to do something similar on my Android tablet, because its keyboard doesn't have a tab key(!), so I have to use hacks to get tabs into my documents. I can't even imagine a development meeting in which someone suggests leaving the tab key off as a desirable thing to do and at least one someone else agrees that that's actually a good idea, but it must have happened. -- Little Girl There is no spoon.

Hey there, Peter Popov wrote: Yes, you would have to edit each file each time. You wouldn't have to save the changes, though. I was going to say that the tab will indent entire paragraphs (because it does), but it won't do that if you use Line Breaking. It sounds to me like you do, because the only way I can figure out to get Geany to break at 72 characters is to turn that on. As soon as I do that, the tabs only work on a per-line basis rather than indenting the entire paragraph. Not only that, but they then stop honoring the 72 character limit, and go over it. Ah, well. It was worth a try. Good luck, and I hope you find something that works. -- Little Girl There is no spoon.

Hey there, Peter Popov wrote: Ah, then you'd have to get around that by copying it to another file, letting that one save, and leave the unchanged original intact. By the way, auto-save is dangerous unless you keep incremental copies of each one. If you mess up and it overwrites the only copy and you don't have the previous version(s) to shop through for the pre-messed up state, you're in a bad way. I don't know if you've ever done NaNoWriMo, but I did my most glorious writing one day in a stretch of about one to two hours. The program I was using to write in auto-saved on change (it makes me feel anxious just to think back on it). I accidentally deleted all the text. It auto-saved. There was no way to retrieve the data. I rewrote what I could remember of it, but I could feel that it wasn't as good the second time around. That's haunted me ever since, and I make sure and turn off auto-save in all programs immediately before ever using them. If I wanted auto-save (which would be a really good idea for times, like the one above, where you're just plain in the zone and you bang out some amazing text), I'd write a script to capture each auto-save the instant the program spits it out and rename it with the date and time (to the second) and do manual clean-up afterwards. You probably know all of that already and have a safety valve already all set up, but your auto-save mention brought back that memory, so I figured I'd share. -- Little Girl There is no spoon.

rch: can one do autosave in plain geany?

re the Geany plugin «Save Actions», Little Girl wrote: «Save Actions» works so enthusiastically that I had to write a little script to tidy away the surplus copies at the end of each days work r

rch: you can save them on a temporary drive in RAM and that contents is lost at power off. in case of a power off, you still have the autosave. in case of an accident you still have the temporary drive.

Hey there, rch wrote: Very nice. I just tried it, and it works really well. Having to tidy up after it will be a small price to pay in exchange for the insurance of not losing anything. -- Little Girl There is no spoon.

Hey there, Peter Popov wrote: I'm not sure I've encountered that. Did you end up solving it? Yes. I've noticed that as my current handicap as well, but not for long now that I know Geany has a handy way of doing incremental auto-saves. No, definitely not. In that case it was frustrating because I was acutely aware that my second approach wasn't nearly as good as my first. You can just tell when you're writing magic, and I wrote magic that day, but only once... Yes, but I like the idea of the safety net just in case, so I'm happy you and someone else in here mentioned that I can have one without needing to script it. Yes, thanks! Thanks to both of you for letting me know about it! -- Little Girl There is no spoon.

John Yeung: I don't think there are writer's editors. These are just marketing labels. Or, from my experience, if there is one, than it is Microsoft Word by far. I simply like line numbers. And having the ability to use versioning from the editor. Or having two files side by side. Or having the same file open and ready in two places on the same screen. Or a clean list of open documents to the right side. Powerful find and replace. The ability to insert the date formated as I want. Case toggle. Minimise to Notifications. Bookmarks, although I would have liked something closer to Word with links. Colorschemes. I would have liked folding. But I am not aware of any text editor smart enough to do markdown folding. And having the ability to edit somewhere between half screen and the end of the second third. Geany is quite low on resources. Surprisingly for its complexity. Meaning it loads fast and it's quite uninpressed by other apps eating all the CPU. And while there are even lighter editors, they lack most of the above.