[Geany-devel] removing filetype templates

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:29:27 +0000, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:50:41 +0000
>eht16 at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>
>> Revision: 3212
>>           http://geany.svn.sourceforge.net/geany/?rev=3212&view=rev
>> Author:   eht16
>> Date:     2008-11-11 19:50:40 +0000 (Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
>> 
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> Add a file template for LaTeX (patch by Herbert Voss, thanks).
>
>> TEMPLATES_CREATE_FILE(fname, templates_filetype_html); break; case
>> GEANY_FILETYPES_RUBY:	TEMPLATES_CREATE_FILE(fname,
>> templates_filetype_ruby); break; case GEANY_FILETYPES_PYTHON:
>> TEMPLATES_CREATE_FILE(fname, templates_filetype_python); break;
>> +			case GEANY_FILETYPES_LATEX:
>> TEMPLATES_CREATE_FILE(fname, templates_filetype_latex); break;
>> default: break; }
>>  		TEMPLATES_READ_FILE(fname, &ft_templates[ft_id]);
>
>BTW, I think we could remove filetype templates and just use custom
>file templates instead - they might confuse users into thinking only
>one template per filetype was supported.
>
>When doing this, I think we shouldn't hard code the creation of
>default template files, but install them as data files. The advantage
>would be the user can delete them after installation if they want.

Yep, sounds good.
The only not so nice effect we will get is that the config dir of
existing users will be cluttered a bit with old template files which
are not used anymore.I'm not sure whether we should just document this
or taking any action to clean it up. But generally I don't like apps
which automatically delete anything in user's configuration directories.


Regards,
Enrico

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