<newsletter:website> Volume 3

Tue Aug 23 22:03:12 UTC 2011

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Author: Russell <russelldickenson at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri May 27 20:57:09 2011 +1000

    Volume 3
    
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@@ -27,5 +27,154 @@ New Geany Wiki
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 
+Let us introduce you...
+=======================
+
+This section is intended to introduce particular plugins or features
+on a regular basis.
+
+
+Plugin Focus
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Spell Check
+***********
+
+Although Geany is primarily an editor aimed at programming tasks,
+it's often used to write plain text. Whether you're a native speaker
+or not, the spell check plugin is very useful. To check the spelling
+of the current document, simply select Tools > Spell Check >
+language from the menu to have the spelling checked in the chosen
+language. If you often use this feature consider creating a keyboard
+shortcut to make activating it easier. You can have spelling checked
+as you type by enabling the "Check spelling while typing" option in the
+plugin's preferences: Edit > Plugin Preferences > Spell Check.
+
+.. image:: ../img/issue3_spellcheck.png
+
+The Spell Check plugin can offer suggestions for misspelled words in
+two ways: in the Message window, in the context menu or both. Choose
+whichever option suits you best by checking the options in the
+plugin's preferences dialog box.
+
+If you have extra dictionaries in Myspell format you can tell Geany
+where these are via the preferences dialog box.
+
+
+Feature Focus
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Line Breaking vs Line Wrapping
+******************************
+
+In the Document menu are the check boxes Line Breaking and Line
+Wrapping. Although their names are similar, they behave differently.
+
+''Line Breaking''
+
+When the Line Breaking option is enabled and you type a word past
+the "Line breaking column" (set in the Preferences dialog box),
+Geany will input a carriage return at the end of the line and put
+the cursor on the line below. This option is best used with plain
+text files when you you want to keep every line to a maximum length.
+It's not recommended for code since you might not notice the line
+break occur and later have to debug the result. It's important to
+know that:
+* Line Breaking works only when adding text to the end of a line;
+* it won't reformat an existing file when you open it;
+* the checkbox must be enabled with each document and each session.
+
+''Line Wrapping''
+
+The Line Wrapping option is similar to Line Breaking but the lines
+are only wrapped visually; no carriage returns or line feeds are
+added. This option is best used when you want to be able to see the
+entire file within the current window. So that it's obvious which
+lines have been wrapped, a visual indicator is added to the end of
+each wrapped line.  It's important to know that:
+* the checkbox must be enabled with each document and each session
+* having Line Wrapping enabled on very large files can slow down Geany.
+
+.. image:: ../img/issue3_linewrapping.png
+
+
 People behind Geany -- Interview
 =================================
+
+This is the first in a series of interviews with Geany's contributors:
+core developers, plugin developers, translators, wiki maintainers and
+any other job we can think of. The purpose of these interviews is to
+show that everyone behind Geany is a normal person with hopes, dreams
+and a favourite Geany plugin. :D Hopefully it will encourage others to
+get involved and help maintain their favourite editor.
+
+
+Columban Wendling
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+In this issue we have an interview with Columban Wendling. Thankyou to
+him for agreeing to the interview.
+
+
+What motivates you to develop Geany?
+
+    I use Geany on a daily basis, so I'm concerned about its development
+    and improvement. I'm also happy to give back a little bit of all the
+    good Geany given me through the years I used it :)  And don't be
+    silly: the FAME! :D
+
+Why do you develop for free instead of devoting this time to paid projects?
+
+    Philosophy, naivety... Actually I don't "develop for free" if it
+    only means "without being paid", I develop for free "as in freedom"
+    software because I like the ideology behind it. Not being paid is
+    only a  concern in the way I need to do some other stuff beside to
+    get money in.
+
+    What I probably prefer in free software is probably the fact one
+    can learn from reading the code. It was a great source of help and
+    knowledge when I started learning programming, and it still is. A
+    related thing is the ability to modify the software to better fit my
+    needs, or simply to fix a bug that concerns me. It serves me from
+    time to time (once I discover an annoying bug ^^) and allows me to
+    send back the fix to upstream developers, hopefully helping other
+    users.
+
+    I won't give all the philosophy behind free software, I think you've
+    got my point :)
+
+Do you do development on other projects that are of interest to you?
+
+    Not really beside my personal projects. As said above, I send
+    patches from time to time to developers of software I use, but I'm
+    not really involved in any other project than Geany.
+
+Do you have a favourite Geany feature and if so, what is it?
+
+    Most probably the tag completion; but also that almost everything is
+    configurable to fit ones needs.
+
+Do you have a favourite Geany plugin and if so, what is it?
+
+    If I'd not fear to sound selfish, I'd say GeanyGenDoc :D Otherwise,
+    SpellCheck without a doubt.
+
+What do you do when you're not developing Geany?
+
+    I continue studying programming, or work on personal projects though
+    it's almost the same thing.
+
+What do you use Geany for?
+
+    Every one of my programming tasks, and some other text editing.
+
+Do you use any editors other than Geany? (Of course the answer here
+should be "Absolutely not!" but I'm asking it anyway. :)
+
+    I use Nano for commit messages and administration tasks I need to do
+    as root, but for all serious text editing I use Geany.
+
+In which environments do you use Geany?
+
+    GNU/Linux (with GNOME), and occasionally Windows (but only when I'm
+    forced to use Windows).

