[Geany-Devel] Storing per-project settings for plugins

[Matthew Brush]

On 2017-02-15 11:42 AM, Jiří Techet wrote:
> Hello Vasiliy,
>
> there should be no problem with your approach (the extra content of the
> config file will be preserved by Geany).
>
> However, Geany offers plugins the possibility to read/write from/to the
> project config files natively. When you register for the "project-open"
> signal, the callback is invoked every time a project is opened and you
> receive GKeyFile * config as a parameter from which you can read the
> configuration using
>
> https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Key-value-file-parser.html
>
> Similarly, when you register for "project-save", you can write your
> configuration to the GKeyFile signal parameter. You can also force the
> emission of the "project-save" signal by calling project_write_config().
>
> You can check my projectorganizer plugin to see how to use the signals (the
> signals are registered in prjorg-main.c). You can also check
>
> http://www.geany.org/manual/reference/pluginsignals_8c.html
>

I also do this in code-format plugin[0], so you can have 
project-specific formating settings. Seems to work well.

Regards,
Matthew Brush

[0]: https://github.com/codebrainz/code-format/blob/master/plugin.c#L154