[Geany] feature request: expand text view

[Enrico Tröger]

On Fri, 4 May 2007 15:11:33 -0400, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 5/4/07, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:12:26 -0400, "John Gabriele"
> > <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > One thing about IDE's is how much screen real estate gets taken
> > > up by various windows and toolbars. Often, when editing a single
> > > file, I wish I had more room on the screen for the text
> > > (specifically, more vertical lines displayed at once).
> > >
> > > I see that in Geany, under the View menu, I can toggle the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > * message window
> > > * toolbar
> > >
> > > and in Edit --> Prefs --> Interface tab:
> > >
> > > * Misc section, I can toggle the statusbar on and off.
> > > * Tab placement, I can shut off editor tabs.
> > >
> > > Now, what would be darn cool is if there were a menu item under
> > > View (critical: and a key combo to go with it) to allow me to
> > > toggle all four of those off in one fell swoop. I need the
> > > message window, toolbar, statusbar, and editor tabs -- just not
> > > all the time.
> > I added a keybinding(no menu item, at least not now) to hide most of
> > the additional widgets. We don't hide the notebook tabs because then
> > you loose control(mostly) over open files and can only switch with
> > keyboard shortcuts between the files.
>
> Neat. Thanks. :) I stuck in on the F12 key. Interesting choice of
> hiding the sidebar instead of the tabs. Just curious: why hide the
> sidebar at all? Do you often need the extra text window *width*?
Hmm, I thought if hiding such stuff then completely and so also hide
the sidebar. And just keeping the tab bar for file navigation.
Isn't it good?

> Say, I went to make some updates to the docs (mostly regarding this),
> but noticed that there seemed to be some issues after running `make
> doc` in the geany/doc directory

> I didn't touch those lines, so I'm not sure why those errors are
> showing up now, but please find attached my small patch/addition.
Hehe, there were just a "</para>" missing on line 1130 which caused all
the errors.
Thanks for the patch, I just applied. Nice!


Regards,
Enrico

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