[Geany-Devel] [geany-plugins] Autoclose: v0.2 - many improvements (#114)

[Pavel Roschin]

> On 13-10-27 09:27 AM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> > On 10/27/13 17:03, Pavel Roschin wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> now that we have a quite feature rich auto-close plugin (I didn't
> >>> test/use it but it already looks more mature than what we have in Geany
> >>> core), I wonder whether we could drop the now somewhat redundant and
> >>> always buggy code in Geany core which provides the same feature.
> >>>
> >>> Any opinions?
> >>>
> >>> Pavel: I guess the auto-close plugin is at least as production ready as
> >>> the current buggy code in Geany and so can be used as replacement?
> >>
> >> Actually we have at least three implementations:
> >> 1) Geany itself
> >> 2) Addons plugin (implements enclosing and custom autoclose pairs)
> >
> > Ah, forgot that one.
> > Do you think it's possible/reasonable to merge this into your plugin?
> >
> >
> >> 3) Autoclose plugin
> >>
> >> But autoclose plugin didn't tested by wide variety of users because it
> >> never was in release (it was appeared only in 1.24). So as it never was
> >> released, I'm not sure that it doesn't breaks someone's use case of
> >> Geany...
> >
> > Ok, so it might be better to delay the removal of the Geany code until
> > maybe one or two releases of G-P including autoclose.
> >
> >
> >> IIRC, Geany devs prefer plugins over editor patches.
> >
> > At least for me and especially in this case, this is true :).
> >
> 
> Not that I want this code in core, but autoclosing is a quite 
> standard/expected editor feature (in SublimeText it's even on by 
> default, and works quite like the new autoclose plugin). Maybe we should 
> at least have this plugin in core plugins or something?
> 
> I'm conflicted between core code maintenance and Geany having basic 
> editor features out-of-the-box :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Matthew Brush
> 
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What is "core plugins"?

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Pavel Roschin aka RPG