[Geany] Send selection&newline to terminal

[Enrico Tröger]

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:47:39 +0000, Liviu wrote:

Hey,

>> But be sure that this can be dangerous when you select some arbitary
>> text, by accident hit the keybinding to send the selection to the VTE
>> and it gets executed. If you boom away your system, you are on your
>> own, you can't blame Geany :).
>>
>Would it make sense to implement an additional safety net? By default,
>on start-up, the terminal tab is hidden (inactive, not focused). Geany
>could always use the safe-send selection mechanism when the vte is
>hidden, and use unsafe-send only when vte is visible and
>send_selection_unsafe=true. Alternatively, Geany could prevent the
>user from sending a selection while the vte is not visible, and
>display a status message.

I think this is way too complicated and non-intuitive. Having that
option defaulting to false and force the users to explicitly turn it on
is good enough. Anyway, if anyone wants to implement this, clean
patches would be ok.


>> I think this is too heavy for Geany itself, but could and should be
>> easily implemented as a plugin. You just need to do it or find
>> someone who is willing to do :).
>>
>What would be a good place to start looking into developing such a
>plug-in?

The very first steps are described in the plugin howto:
http://geany.org/manual/reference/howto.html

After that, the general plugin API docs at
http://geany.org/manual/reference/ should help.

And in case of any questions, just ask.

Regards,
Enrico

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