[Geany-Devel] Hooks on calling some functions for plugins?

[Денис Феклушкин]

2017-07-05 8:05 GMT+07:00 Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com>:

> On 5 July 2017 at 02:00, Vasiliy Faronov <vfaronov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Denis,
> >
> > As far as I understand, none of this is directly supported by Geany
> right now.
> >
> > This is a known problem: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1458
> >
> > Until it is solved systematically (if ever), you might be able to hack
> > around it.
>
> Sadly the discussion seems to have hung again.  Maybe it simply isn't
> easily solvable for Geany core.
>
> >
> > For custom autocompletion, see:
> > https://github.com/notetau/geany-jedi-complete/tree/master/
> geany-complete-core
>
> The use of a separate completion popup as used by the above is the
> best current solution, keep asynchronism in the plugin, remember
> neither Geany now GTK is re-entrant, you need to use `g_idle_add()` to
> synchronise any code that is going to call Geany or GTK or Scintilla.
> ATM I don't think plugins can turn Geany autocomplete off, but it can
> prompt the user to do so.
>
> >
> > For tags, you do have access to parts of TagManager such as
> > tm_workspace_add_source_file -- maybe you could use that creatively
> > somehow.
>
> Its possible, however if your plugin has accurate information about
> what is visible at any point, then you may not want to use tagmanager
> for autocompletion, but it could be used to display symbols in the
> symbols pane.  Tagmanager does not know about what is/is not in scope,
> so using it will therefore lose the accuracy your plugin had.
>
>
Tags also used for syntax highlighting, right? By this I want to add more
accuracy syntax highlighting for D.


> >
> > And of course you can have a custom "Go to D Symbol Definition" command.
>
> And keybinding.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
> >
> > --
> > Vasiliy
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