[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Color Chooser Inserts and Replaces Text - Purpose of Tool is Misleading (#2204)

[allanwmacdonald]

Hi Geany Developers,

When I am editing a plain text file, and I click on the color chooser tool, pick a color and click "Apply", or "Select", I end up seeing a hex colour code, like "#800080" being pasted into my text file!  The color of new added content does not change.

What's worse is that, if any text is highlighted, it gets REPLACED by this color code text! 

I went all over the manual, searching for the purpose of the Color Chooser and I could not find any description of what this feature does.  All I see is the vague description "Open a color chooser dialog, to interactively pick colors from a palette".

Perhaps this feature should be renamed to something like "Hex Color Code Finder" in order to remove any suggestion that this feature somehow has an impact on the color of the displayed text in file being edited.


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