[Geany] Modifying the document browser's behavior

[Nick Treleaven]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:14:22 +0100
Joerg Desch <jd.vvd at web.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:24:24 +0000
> Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Myself and IIRC Enrico thought it would be good to allow other files
> > outside the project to be opened without having to close all the
> > project files first. But if there is a better alternative, feel
> > free to suggest it ;-)
> 
> Ok. So how should we visualise a project? If there is only one view
> of loaded files, a project could be the highest node. All the other
> files from outside the project could be below a node
> "Unmanaged" (uhhh, sounds like C# stuff)
> 
> [-] Project FooBar
>   [-] src/
>     main.c
>     foo.h
>     bar.c
>   [-] lib/
>     xy.c
>     abc.c
>   [-] doc/
>     README
>     LICENSE
>     manual.txt
> [-] Unmanaged
>    [-] ~/my-stuff/php
>       index.php
>       foo.php

I think this is a good idea for the Documents sidebar tab. (Although
personally I'd use 'Other Files' ;-)).

> That's one first thought. Or the project can be part of the file
> browser. Together with a checkbox "hide unloaded", we have the
> hierarchical view, and we can see what's in work. I'm not really sure
> if this is a possible solution.

I'm not sure if it's worth doing this. The file browser can still be
used to switch to an open file as well as opening files. Maybe it could
have a 'Go to Project Base Path' command though.

Regards,
Nick