[Geany-Devel] Hi!

Steven VALSESIA steven.valsesia at xxxxx
Tue Mar 11 11:14:54 UTC 2014


Hi !

I try to update the HACKING file considering the need.
Feel free to comment and improve :)

https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/224

See you !


2014-03-11 10:54 GMT+01:00 Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com>:

> On 11 March 2014 19:35, shan chak <shankholove at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > My name is Shankhoneer Chakrovarty (aka 'shankhs' ), I have been using
> geany
> > for past 3-4 years (mainly on my ubuntu ) and I have learned all my
> > programming skills on geany. So thank you!
> >
> > Since I have been programming for 3-4 years now and also using geany, I
> > thought it will be great if I could give something back to the geany
> > community.
> >
> > I pulled the geany source code, read the HACKING file and created a patch
> > which categorizes the compiler errors into "error" and "warning" and
> > correspondingly draws a different colored squiggle underline in the line
> > which caused the error. I have created the patch as mentioned in the
> hacking
> > file and attached with this mail.
> > If you guys have some time, can you please review the patch? If you need
> any
> > more info, please feel free to drop me an email, I will be more than
> happy
> > to explain it.
>
> Have not reviewed it in detail, but some comments:
>
> 1. don't change whitespace (eg blank lines, that just makes noise in
> the patch that is not needed making real review harder)
> 2. don't use doxygen comments for in-code comments
> 3. watch the layout, you are missing many spaces after commas
> 4. is setting a pointer to a piece of the string and comparing it to
> "warning" really the best way of returning that information rather
> than a bool or enum?
> 5. compiler lines are also parsed by filetypes_parse_compiler_line()
>
> The preferred way of providing changes is now via pull requests on
> github rather than patches.  The HACKING needs updating.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> >
> > Also, I am reading the geany source code and modified some part of it to
> > suit my personal needs so if you need a hand in resolving bugs, please do
> > tell me. I am particularly interested in
> > https://sourceforge.net/p/geany/bugs/254/ .
>
> See also #907 :-D
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Shankhoneer Chakrivarty
> >
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