[Geany-devel] Markers

[Dimitar Zhekov]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:59:45 +1100
Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe you should contact Matthew, during a conversation we had on IRC
> he revealed a prototype for manageing all such limited resources, not
> just markers, in a consistent manner.

This concerns all plugin developers. @Matthew, can you public the
prototype or it's short description on the mailing list, or on another
shared resource?..

> I wouldn't expect (for example) GeanyLatex to interfere with my C#
> programming.  Similarly I wouldn't expect the debugger plugin to try
> to work on a language gdb doesn't understand, eg Java.

Sounds nice. But for some reason, both Scintilla and Geany use fixed
resources, independent of file type. Folding for text files, anyone?..

A per-document allocation, no matter how implemented, also introduces
per-document resource exhaustion errors. So we should at least have a
policy how such error messages are displayed - they must be both
noticable and not too annoying.

-- 
E-gards: Jimmy