[Geany] Improve project support

[Michal Kurgan]

On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:01:51 +0100
Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 05/20/2007 03:40:05 AM, Michal Kurgan wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Another useful idea for me.
> > 
> > Currently in geany Compile, Build and Execute commands are associated
> > with file types and have two nice, additional variables (%f and %e). It
> > would be very useful to add one more variable that would stand as project
> > base directory (i.e. %p).
> 
> Could you give an example usage of %p?
>

In all my projects i use cmake, it uses out of the source builds. Here is
example layout:

 project/
  .cmake/
  src/
  CMakeLists.txt

.cmake directory will hold all Makefiles, there is none in src directory.
To populate .cmake directory you can use following command (in geany it can
be run command):

cd %p/.cmake && cmake .. (currently this will work: cd .cmake && cmake ..)

It's not hard to imagine that to compile sources it would be very useful to
have %p variable:

make -C %p/.cmake <target>

> > This could bring problems in case when project is not open. To resolve
> > that it could be interesting to add certain project properties: compile,
> > build and run that would overwrite default ones. Currently there is a
> > similar "override" run option, but it does not provide %f, %e and
> > possibly %p variables.
> 
> You're right, %f and %e could be useful for the project run command.  
> I'll add this soon.
> I see that project compile and build commands could be useful, I'll  
> think about this.
> 

Thanks, it would be very nice.

> Regards,
> Nick

-- 
Michal Kurgan