[Geany] VFS files

[Alexandre Moreira]

On Nov 13, 2007 12:21 PM, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:40:12 +0100, Bo Lorentsen <bl at lue.dk> wrote:
>
> > Hi ...
> >
> > I have been using Geany a bit the last few days, and its becoming a
> > quite useful tool. But I can't open files that is mounted in VFS :-(
> >
> > Are there any plans of vfs support, or am I the only one having this
> > need ?
> I guess you are talking about gnome-vfs?
> If so, it won't be supported. As Tim mentioned, fuse is very powerful
> and provides (IMO) a cleaner way to use remote file systems while being
> completely application independent.
>

Hello, Enrico. Just thought you might want to take a look at Alexander
Larsson's GIO/GVFS stuff.

He proposes an architecture that seems to unite the power of Fuse with
the integration provided by Gnome-VFS. Perhaps it would be worth to
take a look at it when it is finally done (although I'm not quite sure
when this is going to be.)

Regards,
Alexandre Moreira.

> This has been requested already some time before but I think it is much
> better and easier to use fuse or lufs for accessing remote file systems.
> Theoretically supporting gnome-vfs could be reached with a plugin. The
> plugin does the work with gnome-vfs and when opening a file via
> gnome-vfs it reads its contents and create a new file in Geany and put
> the contents in it. When saving this file, the plugin gives it a
> temporary filename on the local system(so that Geany can actually save
> it) and just put the contents of the saved file back to gnome-vfs, so
> the plugin would act as a kind of wrapper or layer between Geany and
> gnome-vfs. I will definitely not work on this and it is probably a lot
> of work.
> Again, using lufs or fuse should be much easier.
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>
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