[Geany-Devel] Focus lost when last document closed

[Dimitar Zhekov]

On Mon, 27 May 2013 13:22:02 +0200
Pallai Roland <pallair at magex.hu> wrote:

> Do you agree that the problem exists and should be solved?

No. If Geany supported several main activities, such as browsing
interface objects and clicking on their event handlers to edit the
code behind, or browsing a database and clicking an object to edit
it's definition as SQL text, it would have made sense, because the
editor windows would have been specialized.

> Maybe I was very abstract here: I just want consistent widget focus
> when I close the very last document.

But not any other document... Attempting to marry activities with
Geany's general purpose text editors can't produce consistent results.

Aside from a plugin being unavailable, the widget from which a file was
open may be in an unsuitable state: for example a set of Messages,
which are not result of "Find in Files", or Scope Threads/Stack, after
the program was terminated.

> How should I fix it?

For Messages, including "Find in Files" matches, you can assign
shortcuts for the "Next message" and "Previous message". Strangely
enough, the keys do not work if the last file is closed, although the
menu items work just file. Bug?..

-- 
E-gards: Jimmy