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

[Steven Blatnick]

I'm referring to the filebrowser plugin, not the open file dialog which 
does support backspace already.

Thanks for the reply.

Steve

On 11/29/2012 01:51 PM, Thomas Martitz wrote:
> 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
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