[Geany] Per-workspace instance of Geany

[Randy Kramer]

On Wednesday 26 January 2011 05:37:57 pm Lex Trotman wrote:
> On 27 January 2011 09:12, Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 January 2011 04:58:57 pm Thomas Martitz wrote:
> >> On 26.01.2011 21:05, Randy Kramer wrote:
> >> > One annoyance is if you want to have a 2nd instance of the file
> >> > so that you can work in two places in the file.  (Some editors
> >> > allow you to do a split pane or similar to solve that problem,
> >> > but not all.)
> >>
> >> Concurrent instances is probably not the way to achieve that. Is
> >> there any program in the world which allows this?
> >
> > Allows what?  Opening the same file in different tabs of the same
> > instance of an editor?  Opening the same file in two different
> > instances of an editor?
> >
> > Many that I've used.
> >
> > I don't do it often--I'd have to test again to confirm which of the
> > current editors I use do that.
> >
> > Randy Kramer
>
> Hi Randy,
>
> An Emacs instance of course allows the same file to be edited in more
> than one top level window and the edits appear in the others.  In
> fact I am occasionally moved to go back to Emacs for just this
> capability, editing definitions at the top of a file and functions
> using them at the bottom of the file.
>
> I don't know of any editors where editing the file in multiple
> instances allows the edits to show up in the other instances.

No, sorry, I didn't mean to say that any did.  But they do typically 
warn you when the file on disk doesn't match the file you're working on 
(when the instance of the editor gets the focus).

> Dumb editors allow you to edit the file in multiple instances and the
> last saved just overwrites previous saves, not really what we want
> since I for one will almost certainly do it accidentally :-(

Maybe I've just done it accidentally so often that I've developed habits 
(knock on wood) to avoid the problem.  (Primary habit being, always hit 
<ctrl> s after doing almost anything (and before moving the focus away 
from an editor).)

Anyway, like I say, sorry if I created some confusion.

Randy Kramer