[Geany-devel] Markers

[Lex Trotman]

On 11 March 2012 17:16, Alexander Petukhov <devel at apetukhov.ru> wrote:
>
>> So all we need is the initialisation, and probably a common search
>> routine for the convenience of plugins (although that isn't absolutely
>> needed).  The smaller the patch the more likely someone has time to
>> test it and commit it.
>>
>>
>
> I would vote for having utility functions that manages a list of available
> markers
> instead of letting plugins manually find those that are marked with
> SC_MARK_AVAILABLE.
>
> I can imagine a situation when some plugin set its markers for several
> documents but didn't do it for others,
> so when another plugin tries to set it's own markers it came to that markers
> idenifiers for the same markers are different in different documents that
> means it's another job to keep track of it.

Well, the plugins are just going to have to do this anyway, why should
a C language plugin steal markers froma Python file when the Python
plugin also needs them??

Cheers
Lex

>
> having such functions as utils_ui_get_marker(), utils_ui_free_marker() seems
> more clear and robust.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
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