[Geany-devel] altername session management implementation

[Lex Trotman]

On 20 May 2010 17:59, Dimitar Zhekov <hamster at mbox.contact.bg> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 May 2010 23:15:40 +0200
> Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
>
> > > Each Geany is restored exactly it was before the session was closed,
> > > including open files, options (including applied but unsaved),
> > > per-document options (even if no project file is open) etc.
> > >
> >
> > Now we have two alternating SM implementations? Why?
>
> Because I wanted the Geany-s state to be restored more precisely. The
> only way to do that were separate .conf files, which eliminates the race
> condition as well.
>
> Also, the alternate implementation doesn't require a --project option
> - using argv[1] is the easiest wat to open a geany project file from
> the file manager.
>
> > I think I still like something close to the current behaviour: the
> > main instance (i.e. the first opened one) is master over the config
> > file.
>
> This behaviour is still in the future. Unless I'm missing something,
> if you start geany twice with different sockets, there will be two
> "main" instances using the same configuration file.
>
> Eugene's original implementation requires main/secondary instances;
> this one does not.
>
> > I guess the main problem here is that Geany was never designed to be
> > used as multiple window editor, and IMO it shouldn't be changed to be
> > one.
>
> Indeed, so I save each Geany completely separately. Since this is
> more compliant with the current (as in "currently implemented")
> behaviour, it's also ~1/3 shorter.
>
> Maybe I missed something, but what happens to configuration under this plan
when instances are manually closed and re-opened?

Which of the .conf files is used when the first is manually opened, the
second is manually opened etc.

Cheers
Lex



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