[Geany-devel] [PATCH] Some editor/snippets/keybindings enhancements

[Nick Treleaven]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:48:35 +0400
Eugene Arshinov <earshinov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> I attach three patches:
> 1. Keybindings to insert new line after/before current
...
> 3. Automatically insert additional indentation in XML/HTML files if
> previous line ends with an opening tag

I finally got round to replying to the other patches, sorry for the
delay.

> The drawback of the first patch is that I doubt it's so useful.  I know
> Vi[m] provides shortcuts for these actions ('o' and 'O' in normal
> mode), but their necessity is questionable for me.  I implemented this
> to ease XML editing with tag autocompletion turned on.  Suppose you
> need to write to consequent <li>'s.  Without this patch you need to
> press End+Enter after writing the first <li> to place the cursor where
> you need to start the second.  With my patch, you only need to press
> one shortcut you can assign in Preferences > Keybindings :)

Maybe we could add these. BTW you could use utils_get_eol_char().
Also we already have sci_get_line_indent_position().

> The drawback of the third patch is that it's not completed.  If user
> likes to leave HTML tags like <br> "unclosed", she would be disturbed by
> automatic indentation caused by my patch, so a check box in Preferences
> is desirable.  I'll code it as soon as we decide this patch can go to
> trunk.

For HTML perhaps we could have a filetype pref for this.

Regards,
Nick