[Geany-Devel] spawning rewrite - RFC

[Lex Trotman]

On 4 November 2013 00:29, Dimitar Zhekov <dimitar.zhekov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As some of us know, I'm writing a completely new implementation of
> the spawning in Geany, to fix the issues under win~1, and to provide
> higher level interface, thus stopping the calling modules (build,
> search, ...) from doing "their own thing", for example tools.c using
> g_shell_parse_argv() even under win~1, which is a bug. You can have a
> look at the latest messages for [1].
>

Hi Dimitar,

Thank you in advance.



>
> My intention is to use this thread to discuss questionable spawning
> issues. So the first question is: should we _completely_ disable the
> console for win~1 console applications? If we do that, any stdout/err
> output not captured by a Geany pipe will be discarded. Under *nix,
> when Geany is not started from a terminal, such output normally goes
> to ~/.xsession-errors, which is somewhat useful.
>
> I propose to always create the win~1 programs with a minimized,
> non-focused window. For console programs, the uncaptured output will
> go to the console, and will be lost when the console is auto closed
> by win~1, but that's better than nothing. Moreover, if a console
> program crashes, the console will remain on screen until you confirm
> the win~1 crash dialog.
>

Though not a windows user, that sounds sensible to me, but will it work
with execute keeping the console open until enter is pressed?

Cheers
Lex



>
> [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/geany/bugs/943/
>
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