[Geany] Customization questions

[Enrico Tröger]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 22:48:49 +1000, Lex wrote:

>On 1 August 2010 22:35, Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a new customization question.
>>
>> Background: Here is a feature I really like about Geany: When you are
>> in HTML or PHP mode, and you type "<table>", Geany not only closes
>> the table tag, but it fills the table with a blank row and cell:
>>
>> <table>
>>        <tr>
>>                <td> </td>
>>        </tr>
>> </table>
>>
>> Notice how it is already indented and everything.
>>
>>
>> Now, what I want is for Geany to do something similar with curly
>> brackets. Suppose I type some if-statement:
>>
>> if (2 > 1) {
>>
>> The moment I type the open curly bracket, I would like Geany to put a
>> closing bracket two lines down and add an indentation to the space
>> between the brackets:
>>
>> if (2 > 1) {
>>        <indented>
>> }
>>
>>
>> Is something like this possible?
>>
>> The way Geany behaves currently is slightly annoying. Yes, it closes
>> the bracket, like this:
>>
>> if (2 > 1) {}
>>
>> And when I press "Enter" Geany just goes one line down and indents
>> the bracket:
>>
>> if (2 > 1) {
>>        }
>>
>>
>> This is never what I want. So I just end up de-activating the bracket
>> completion for curly brackets because what Geany does is more
>> annoying than useful. But it would be really great if it could do
>> what I actually want:
>>
>> if (2 > 1) {
>>        <indented>
>> }
>>
>> Any chance for this?
>
>There are problems with auto indentation if there is anything on the
>line after the { ie the }.  It is waiting for someone to have time to
>fix it.

Alternatively, or for the time waiting for a fix, you can get what you
want using snippets.
There is a default snippet for if statements which does quite what you
want, IIRC.

Regards,
Enrico

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