[Geany] custom templates - Re: Thanks / Ideas

[Nick Treleaven]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:40:08 +1000
Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> > That would be custom *file* templates - those are for creating a new
> >> > file, not inserting into an existing one.
> >>
> >> Ah I see.
> 
> I thought I saw, I took this to mean you were advocating two sets of
> templates, those that are used for new files & those that are inserted
> into existing files??  Which of course implies some form of insert
> into operation which I took to mean menu->edit->insert comment.
> 
> But I see from templates.c that this is pretty hard coded

They're not hard-coded, just the defaults.

> What I thought it could do was offer the files in templates/includes
> as extras to that menu like " menu->file->new with template" does for
> templates/files and that was basically what you were suggesting,
> except for the place to get the files from.
> 
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Probably 'custom templates' could be read from templates/*.
> >>
> >> Now I understand, I would think that you would not want the menu
> >> cluttered with the file templates since most of them you would not
> >> want to paste into an existing file.maybe templates/inserts plus an
> >> option to go looking elsewhere?
> >
> > What do you mean exactly? Aren't the File->New with Template menus
> > enough, or do you want to insert a file template?
> 
> No I read templates/* to include templates/files so they would be
> included in the list, I was suggesting to exclude them.  Probably
> still better to have custom includes in a separate directory from the
> standard ones though, easier to manage.

Well for backwards compatibility I think all files (not dirs) under
templates/* should be insertion templates and templates/files/* for new
file templates.

Regards,
Nick