[Geany] feature request: expand text view

[Enrico Tröger]

On Sat, 5 May 2007 14:16:55 -0400, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 5/5/07, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 May 2007 15:11:33 -0400, "John Gabriele"
> > <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > 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?
>
> It's great! Thanks for adding the feature. I'm already using it, and
> think it deserves its own menu item and key combo so new users can't
> find it more easily. :)
>
> What I was getting at was, since Geany doesn't currently have the
> feature of showing multiple files side-by-side, I don't really need
> more text window *width* (most files are only around 80 characters
> wide anyway). When I now hit F12, I'm looking to temporarily get
> maximum text window *height*. Keeping the sidebar around could still
> be helpful for navigating between functions/classes/whatever -- and,
> additionally, you can use its "Open files" tab to switch between files
> instead of using the editor tabs. So, to me it seems to make more
> sense to keep the sidebar, but lose the tabs when I hit F12.
Hmm, I'm not sure. If I'm working on my laptop which has only a
resolution of 1024x768 the extra width is useful so I think it's good
to also hide it.
On the other hand, there is also a keybinding for hiding the sidebar
separately.

> > > 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!
>
> Ouch. Thanks. :)
>
> Say, I just did an svn update; ./configure --prefix=/home/me/opt;
> make; make install, but my local geany docs don't show the updates...
> I can see the updates in geany.docbook, but even the html files in the
> geany/doc/html directory aren't updated... is there some doc
> dependency missing in the build system?
The HTML files aren't generated implicitly by make. This is because the
generated HTML files are also within the SVN repository. This has the
advantage that users don't have to xmlto and the docbook stuff
installed to just compile Geany. I update the HTML files in SVN before
new releases. So, to generate the HTML files by yourself, go into the
doc directory and run "make doc" or "make htmldoc".


Regards,
Enrico

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