[Geany-devel] [PATCH] Open files in Geany at the same workspace

[Nick Treleaven]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:00:06 +0100
Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> > > 3) this is the most complicated but also the one that seems to have the
> > > less flaws: still add workspace suffix, but when checking if there is a
> > > running instance to which send the requests, ignore that workspace
> > > information if the pre-workspace option is not checked. It needs to list
> > > the available socket(s), and then select the one we want (probably the
> > > first or the one closets to the current desktop), but it fixes flaws I
> > > see in both methods 1) and 2).
> > 
> > I prefer this solution, mainly because it doesn't have the problems the
> > other two solutions have.
> 
> In any case, the patch introduced a bug where 2nd instances still load
> the session files. So I think we'll need to revert it until there's a
> fix.

I've now copied the code to branches/workspace-sockets and reverted the
code in trunk. Hopefully we can fix the issues and merge back
sometime.

One idea besides having a pref for this is to have a command-line option
to use the 'main' socket instead of the current workspace.

Regards,
Nick