[Geany] custom templates - Re: Thanks / Ideas

[Lex Trotman]

2009/9/27 Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com>:
> 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.

Ok

Cheers
Lex
>
> Regards,
> Nick
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