[Geany] Editor helpers

[Nick Treleaven]

On 24/10/07 14:38:40, Harold Aling wrote:
> 
> What if Geany would support the following:
> 
> A: Add opening and closing tags to a selection:
> 1. Select a word/row/section
> 2. Press '
> 3. Geany transforms the selection into '<selection>' and expands the
> selection so you may add another one by a single keypress.

I'm not sure about this, when would you use it? Perhaps it's better to 
just insert the > character after < when typing the tag, like feature 
B.

> B: Add closing tag for opened tag
> 1. Start typing: echo '
> 2. Geany adds the closing ' but the cursor stays in between: echo
> '<cursor>'
> 
> These would be useful for ', ", {, [, (, ` and maybe other
> characters(?)...

It might be a nice feature, but it would need to be implemented 
carefully. E.g. checking that the cursor is not in a string or comment. 
Also sometimes you wouldn't want the behaviour at the start of a line 
or in front of some text on an existing line if you're programming.

Regards,
Nick