[Geany] Some notes on Geanys project management

[Nick Treleaven]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:02:48 +0100
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:49:23 +0000, Nick Treleaven
> <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:02:58 +0000 (UTC)
> > Joerg Desch <joerg.desch at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > > * enforce the extension of the project file. I've edit the
> > > filename first, and forgot the extension. After this, ".geany"
> > > got lost.
> > 
> > I agree, we should do this.
> Really?
> I don't like this. This reminds me of the ugly ".txt" problem with
> Windows Notepad. In Windows XP(maybe also in versions before) you
> can't save a file with Windows Notepad without the .txt extension.
> This was driving me crazy several times and I really don't want to
> add anything similar to Geany.
> Additionally, there is no need to enforce the extension of Geany
> project files to ".geany". Users can and should be able to choose any
> extension they like or no extension.

Maybe. But it makes finding a project file in the open dialog easier if
it has the .geany extension.

> > > * opening a project automatically closes all files from outside
> > > the the project, if the file was loaded previously to the
> > > project. After closing the project, these file got loaded again.
> > >   
> > >   Now I load the project first, and than the "other file". After
> > > closing the project, the "other file" is closed too. This is also
> > > the case, if Geany is closed with the project and the "other
> > > file" open. After the new start, all files are open. But again,
> > > closing the project will close the "other file" too!
> > > 
> > >   Is this a bug?
> > 
> > It was done like this to make implementing the session support
> > easier, but maybe it could be made a preference whether to
> > distinguish between files under the project tree and files outside
> > it.
> I think this would make it more confusing than it would help.

It would be confusing going from not using a project with a number of
related files open to opening a project, as these files wouldn't be
closed. But for switching between projects it might be useful if
someone had a general TODO file open or another file they wanted to
look at whenever they were using Geany. But I'm not sure if it's really
needed.

Regards,
Nick