[Geany-devel] Creating ~/.config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.* files - Re: ANN: Configurable build beta in trunk

[Nick Treleaven]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 15:37:51 +0100
Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> > > I just noticed that all user filetypes files are always created and
> > > saved, just by quitting Geany. The previous behaviour was to only
> > > create/save a filetypes file if the user had pressed OK in the
> > > Build Commands dialog *for that filetype*. Could this be implemented?
> > 
> > Yes.  I think it should be, but its mildly non-trivial.
> > 
> > It would require extra fields in GeanyFiletypesPrivate (? and
> > GeanyFiletype ?) to record if any of the regexes are changed so that
> > writting of the file can be prevented only if the regex isn't changed.
> >  And the dialogs need additions to set them.
> 
> That's not necessary IMO - surely if the dialog is never shown or
> Cancel is pressed, nothing is changed? We could just set a private flag
> for the filetype if OK was clicked.

Obviously this way you may get a false positive if the user didn't
change anything and just pressed OK but this makes it much easier to
implement and avoids a lot of unnecessary files on disk.

Regards,
Nick