[Geany-Devel] Accessing argv from plugins

[Matthew Brush]

On 13-01-07 03:46 AM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On 7 January 2013 20:25, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to write a plugin that requires some command line options passed to
>> it (through geany). Is there a way to make it so Geany will accept arbitrary
>> arguments and then I can pick them out of /proc/<PID>/cmdline or
>> something[1]? I tried but Geany currently errors out if it sees an option it
>> does not recognize itself.
>>
>> Assuming this is not possible currently, is there any sane way to pass
>> arguments to plugins, maybe something like how you can pass `-Wl` to GCC to
>> pass-through linker args or `-X` to valac to pass-through compiler args?
>
> There is always (shuddddder) environment vars if you don't want to modify Geany.
>

In this case I need a command to pass to 3rd party library that will 
itself launch Geany and give it some arguments (meant to be handled by 
the plugin). I don't think it'd work with env vars.

> Or you could add a multi-occurance option that takes string values,
> the -X sounds good (X for extensions == plugins).  Make all the values
> available to plugins (GSlist maybe) which can pick and choose what
> they want.
>
> So you get:
>
> geany -X="plugin_name-option_name=value"
> -X="plugin2name-another_option=value" files
>

Yep, that's pretty much what I was figuring for this use. Anyone know 
what kind of PITA it would be to implement? I can guess "somewhat of a" 
but I've not really looked into the code yet.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush