[Geany-devel] Stash

[Nick Treleaven]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:31:47 +1000
Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> > A similar situation: I think using Stash for prefs everywhere would be
> > much cleaner, but no one really wants to make the change, and it could
> > introduce bugs.
> 
> Yes, and new contributors don't understand about stash and (gently) I
> think it could use a bit more documentation

Maybe. I wrote Stash myself and it could use some feedback.

> I'm still confused how it
> relates to the widgets

Not sure if you've seen the latest docs, but just in case:
http://www.geany.org/manual/reference/stash_8h.html#_details

Perhaps it could be clearer, suggestions welcome.

> & how it handles non-static things like
> variable numbers of build commands? (which is why I don't use it)

It doesn't really support that. I didn't mean to suggest you should use
it there ;-) For simple prefs, it could be used everywhere though.

Regards,
Nick