[Geany] Compiler output interpretation

[Nick Treleaven]

On 08/15/2007 11:21:00 AM, Jon Senior wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just start using Geany and I've encountered a problem that I've had
> with other IDEs in the past. I use Apache Ant to manage Java builds
> and it prints the compiler output in the following format:
> 
> [javac] <Full Path to File + extension>:<line n°>: <error>
> 
> ie. It prefaces the normal javac output with "[javac]". With the
> previous IDE I used, it was possible to define the regexp that was
> used to interpret the compiler output. Ultimately this is something
> that should fall under the project management, but for the time being
> an option in the filetypes.<language> file would be great.
> 
I agree that a user-definable regex would be better.

> [...]
> One idea for projects (Don't know if this has already been suggested)
> would be to have project templates which include menu definitions and
> template project folders. An example would be an autoconf / automake
> project which started with default configure.in etc. files.
> 
Maybe, but the autotools example might be better implemented as a 
plugin. (I think we will improve the file template support in the core 
sometime so there can be more than one per filetype.)

Regards,
Nick