[Geany-devel] [PATCH] Behavior of opening filenames with colons from the command line

[Lex Trotman]

Since I have $EDITOR set to Geany I don't know what software will call
it with what filenames.  One piece of software I use occasionally uses
filename:nn as a temp file name & I have to change name each time :-(.
 So I have some minor interest in fixing it (but use it rarely enough
that I hadn't even filed a bug yet ;-).


>> I think its not a good idea as the default since Geany can be used by
>> other software (eg filemanagers) to open/create files with any name.
> If the file exists, that's not a problem, neither now nor with my patch,
> since Geany will detect that it exists and open it as-is, without trying
> to strip the line/columns.
>

Understood that, no problem here, its a definite improvement.

> And with my patch it's even better, since if the file to be opened at a
> given line/column doesn't exist, it forgets the line and columns and
> opens the full path as given -- no line/column stripping.

Thats ok too.

> I think that the only problem users can see with the behavior of the
> patch is if they have the files "foo:0" and "foo:0:1" and they want to
> open "foo:0" at line 1 with the :nn syntax.

What about if you have "file" and you want to create "file:nn" as a
new file (my example above)?  IIUC it will instead open "file" at line
nn?

>
> I mean, with the patch, Geany can be used transparently with files that
> have :nn suffixes -- apart using the :nn suffix to open at a given
> line/column that doesn't always do magic (but almost).
>
>> But maybe add a command line option to specify that the filename IS
>> suffixed with :line:col so you can still paste terminal output.
>> Perhaps -a and --at.
> Perhaps it's a possibility, yes -- even though I'd prefer to be able to
> set it as the default.

Just alias ga to geany --at & save even more typing ;-)

Cheers
Lex

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