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

[Lex Trotman]

On 20 August 2010 04:04, Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
> Le 17/08/2010 02:52, Lex Trotman a écrit :
>> 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 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?
> Yes, exactly. Now the question is, is this a problem? If yes (regarding
> you first remark, it seems to be), then I don't see any other solution
> than effectively disable this.
>
>>> 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 ;-)
> Yeah true, didn't thought of it, that's not a big deal. I could even
> alias geany to geany --whatever not to heave to think of it -- just need
> to it.
> Then if everybody's OK with this (Nick, Enrico?), I could implement it
> -- or anybody else, don't mind ;)
>
> But -- stop me if I'm wrong -- perhaps the reverse can be fine too? say,
> setting $EDITOR to geany --no-whatever? Not sure it works nor it's
> better, just to suggest.

Well its possible too, sensible applications should accept $EDITOR
having options, but I would have $EDITOR point to a shell script which
runs Geany with the options just in case.  All possible, just more
trouble & then only allows one file.

I don't really mind either way & as you are the one doing the work you
can choose.

Cheers
Lex

>
> Regards,
> Colomban
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