[Github-comments] [geany] New commandline option: --background (or similar) (#907)

[Markus-N]

Yes, I know that my use case is a bit special. That's why I asked for an option and not for a change of the default behaviour :-)

OK, I could change my scripts to use `&` generally, but it would pollute my terminal with lots of `Done` messages, even with `> /dev/null 2>&1`. Yes, I'm also checking the terminal output.

A reason against just collecting all the files and logs in a log directory is that it also would require an additional step to move them to the final location at the end. You should know that I often have mltiple of these scripts running in parallel, and then I always need to look twice which ones are ready to move and which ones should stay in the log directory. OK, I have a file naming scheme that helps, but still, I need to check which files are still written to and which ones are complete. As I wrote, I also check intermediate results when I have time (and wehen I have a feeling the script takes longer than expected).

I think it would be very ironic to put some effort in my scripts in order to automate things and then have to manage the result manually. :-) And I thought if there already is an option to be used from an external script or tool (--list-documents), my new option would fit into the scheme.

Maybe I should also note that I generally don't like to be interrupted by any application that steals the focus. Unfortunately, the "focus stealing prevention" setting of XFCE does not help with geany. I think the "don't interrupt me" aspect of this option could be useful for other people, too.

BTW: I'm surprised that my feature request can cause some potential problems. I thought the only thing that needs to be implemented is the signalling of the new option to the already running instance. All the rest is surrounding a few things with an `if() { ... }`, isn't it ?


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