[Geany-Devel] I'm thinking I like Geany...

[Steven Blatnick]

Out of curiosity, what is the native language of many of the people on 
this list?
Quero saber, o que seja a língua principál das pessoas nesta lista de 
e-mail?
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
¿Hablan Español?

Ni Hau :-)

Steve

On 11/28/2012 05:08 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On 29 November 2012 05:25, Steven Blatnick <steve8track at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Replies below.  I hope nobody is annoyed that the new guy is emailing so
>> much :-)
>>
> Of course not, but be aware that many Geany devs do not have English
> as their first language so the bigger the email the fewer read it
> tl;dr :)
>
> (Not that I'm innocent of verbosity of course :)
>
> Also please keep your emails to text only.  Mailers don't agree well
> on how HTML should render and > quotes don't work right.
>
> [...]
>> Maybe if it's just a flag it could be dependent on what it's building
>> against?  Though I hate to support different features for different
>> dependencies... If they end up keeping that feature, I hope we could use it.
>>
> We try to avoid #ifdefs everywhere.
>
> [...]
>> Instead, I think it would be more intuitive to put them all together like
>> GEdit's External Tools.  It's simpler and more powerful I think.  (Don't get
>> me wrong, I wouldn't be trying geany out if I thought gedit were better in
>> every way.  Geany has a lot of customization GEdit lacked.)  For those who
>> haven't used GEdit much, let me point out some of the features, as well as
>> ideas for improvement:
> The whole suggestion was tl;dr but let me point out that each of these
> ways of running commands is different, for example compile commands
> have their output scanned for error messages to show in the compiler
> tab, execute commands do not have this, custom commands paste their
> results in the buffer, etc.  As I remember gedit didn't have these
> things.  So whilst combining them might in some ways be nice, I think
> it is likely to confuse users who try to configure the wrong sort of
> command in the wrong place.
>
> [...]
>
>> I meant that we should add those features to the current file browser
>> plugin.  I wasn't able to see those features in the context menu.
> Use the treebrowser plugin instead, add to that if you need to, keep
> the filebrowser simple for Luddites like me :)
>
> [...]
>
> Cheers
> Lex
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