[Geany] Indentation problems

Thu Jan 20 13:40:30 UTC 2011

Hello,

thanks for the quick reply:

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 20 January 2011 21:36, Philipp Kalder <pkalder at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > I think I found a bug or two othree . . ., but am not sure. So I first
> write
> > to the list.
> > I hope this is the right place.
> > I have an apt-get install of Geany 0.19.1 and installed a theme from
> here:
> > http://www.barryvan.com.au/2009/01/geany-ide-tango-dark-colour-scheme/
> > I did this more or less before I really used geany. But I think some of
> the
> > issues started
> > first after the theme was applied. I also created a filetype.common as
> > mentioned
> > in the comments of the link above.
> > I installed a Virtual Machine Ubuntu 10.10 (same as my workstation) and
> > tested the 'fresh' version against the one I use:
> > 1. Issue
> > In an Editor such as gedit or Editra as well as in Geany you can mark a
> text
> > and replace it with anything you have in your clipboard.
> > The usual linux behavior would be to copy the marked text to the
> clipboard,
> > so ctrl+v-ing would simply replace the marked text with itself.
> > After installing the above theme however, the behavior changes from
> Editor
> > like to usual. Which is quite inconvenient.
>
> Don't know how the theme affects this?? What does a fresh version on
> the actual workstation do? After all a VM may not have tweaks you
> added to your normal environment and certainly does not have same GUI
> drivers.
>

The thing is, if I copy away the filetypes.python I use, or copy one
from /usr/share/geany
to .config/geany/filedefs and restart Geany, it behaves as expected, what I
labled 'Editor'-Style.

So even considering the differences between a VM and the actual workstation,
I can change the behavior
even on the workstation alone. And the trigger seems to be using a different
filetypes.python. So let me rephrase:

When changing the filetypes.python I use, the behavior changes. I always
quit Geany before I make changes
like that and start it only after it's finished. the identifiers attribute
was not set as well as the lexer_properties section
was not defined. I took those from the /usr/share/geany file and added them.
I also changed certain colors, to have
a more dark blue background. But again, the behavior is 'usual' style.

>
> > 2. Issue
> > I have some issues with indentation while coding. I code in python.
> Pressing
> > Enter after a colon results in the next line being indented using tabs.
> > But my settings are to use spaces. Pressing Enter after a 'regular' line,
> > the indentation is done using spaces.
> > So I guess there is some problem with the implementation for
> python/colon.
> > Python sometimes really get's finicky about mixing spaces and tabs.
>
> This works for me, did you force the preference to apply to already
> open documents? Just setting the preference won't change the setting
> for already open documents unless you force it (see note at top of
> preference page)

Do you refer to
http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#preferences

and the statement about changes under the 'Document' Tab?

Anyway, I restarted Geany after changing settings. They showed up as I set
there.

Preferences Dialog -> Editor TAB Indentation: Type Spaces

But don't seem to apply. Just to be sure, we are talking about the same:
A sample, I have 'Show whitespaces' active at all times:

. . . . if xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('ns3:message') == 'broken symlink':
<hitting enter results in>
----->---->print "The symlink is broken"

However, I've just had a look at the options under the Documents Tab and
found that

Indent Type

was set to Tabs and space although my Settings in the Preferences Dialog
show it as spaces.
Changing it there, solves this. It also keeps this set after restarting
Geany. Though this is the opposite of
what it say's in the Geany manual:

"The settings under the Document menu, however, are only for the current
document and revert to defaults when restarting Geany."

So I'm not sure whether this is a bug or just a 'glitch', but changing the
filetypes.python changed this behavior as well.

> > 3. Issue
> > Is again related to the theme, after testing this in the VM. Auto
> > completing/adding for parenthesis does not work with the theme.
> > With the 'fresh' Geany closing parenthesis is added just as it should be,
> > with the theme it's not. Curly and square braces are added without
> > difficulty.
>
> Again don't see how this is to do with the theme, more likely system
> configuration being different to the VM.

Also again, any suggestions on which system config element could possibly
influence the
behavior of the editor? I purged and reinstalled Geany, put the filetypes.*
back in place
and started the Editor, same picture. Though I have to admit, that the
purging seems not
to have been as thorough as I wished. After starting the editor, the last
opened files reappeared.

> > 4. Issue
> > Might be related to no.2. Though the settings are set to use spaces,
> > pressing tab inserts a tab and even converts preceding spaces in groups
> of
> > $tabwidth into tabs
> > Moving multiple lines at once with tab, also inserts and converts spaces
> to
> > tabs. This seems not to be related to the theme as well.
>
> See comment above, behaves as you describe even with pref changed
> unless the change is applied to the open file.
>

I'll gibe the version 0.20 a try. Lets see what this brings.

Thanks again.
Phil

> Cheers
> Lex
>
> > So I don't know if these are 'bugs', so if someone know's anything about
> it,
> > please let me know.
> > Especially if it is a bug, that might already been filed as one.
> > Regards
> > Phil
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