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

[Lex Trotman]

2009/9/2 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 15:39:09 +0100, Nick wrote:
>
>>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.

As I said above, it should be implemented!!

>>> >
>>> > 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.
>

If this is ok, then happy to use simpler solution :-)


> I fully agree here. The previous behaviour where only real changes were
> written into user config files were better.
>
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
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