[Geany] Indentation problems

Thu Jan 20 13:47:07 UTC 2011

Same thing with version 0.20.
But I guess this might be related to the fact that it uses the same
preferences.

Regards
Phil

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Philipp Kalder <pkalder at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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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