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

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 27.11.2012 23:48, schrieb Steven Blatnick:
> Hello.
>
> I'm just introducing myself and explaining why I chose to add myself 
> to the devel list today, as well as providing a patch.
>
> I'm a software developer who, if you can believe it, uses gedit as my 
> primary IDE.  (You may have seen me recently in the IRC channel.)
>
> After struggling with the division between gedit 2, gedit 3, and pluma 
> (MATE), I decided to look elsewhere for a light-weight IDE.
>
> My initial impressions of geany are:
>
> 1. It runs with about half the RAM of gedit2 on my box.
> 2. The code seems easier to get in to.
> 3. It seems to be heading the direction I like and has the look and 
> feel I want.
> 4. Looks like any feature I miss from gedit I could contribute myself 
> or write a plugin.
>
> So here is my attempt to get involved:
>
> I've attached a patch that adds /Backspace/ to the keyboard events for 
> the file browser so you can go up a directory quicker. It's something 
> I noticed gedit had and I hope others may find it more convenient than 
> previous Alt+Up key combination (which still is there, this is just in 
> addition).

Yes, backspace is very convinient to go up one folder.

However, it already does that for me even without the patch (if the 
filename entry is hidden, via ctrl+l). And it does that in all 
applications. I was under the impression that this was handled entirely 
within gtk filechooser.

Best regards