[Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

[Harold Aling]

On 12 November 2013 00:24, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've "moved on" to PhpStorm due to the failing "indexed project"
>> support of Geany. Still miss the simplicity, and speedy interface, but
>> I had to switch to do my job better. I'd vote for better/faster
>> indexing (and scopes).
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>> I'm still following the mailinglist for sentimental reasons ;)
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> Hi again Harold,
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> Its rare to hear from ex-users.  So any input could be a useful different
> perspective.
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> By "index" I assume you mean symbol parsing?

Hey Lex,

Yes, I meant symbol parsing. PhpStorm even has contextual symbol
parsing, so it knows what variables, functions, methods, etc are
available in a certain scope. Pretty fancy; some might even say it's
way too much.

PhpStorm also supports
* Undeclared variables (even potentially unreachable variables!)
* Unused variables
* Unreachable code
* And lots more like these!

I quit using Geany because starting (or exiting) it with a Drupal
project opened took about 8(?) minutes to open, without any feedback.
PhpStorm indexes (multi-threaded) in the background and starts
semi-fast (it's still Java).

I'm not expecting Geany to incorporate these way too advanced
features, but multi-threaded background indexing seems like a must
have to compete with the "big boys".

Cheers!

Harold