[Geany] Per-workspace instance of Geany

[Lex Trotman]

On 27 January 2011 18:42, Jon Senior <jon at restlesslemon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:23:50 -0500
> Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, from Neil's response to this thread, I see that there is a
>> misunderstanding somewhere--I did not intend to say that the changes
>> would be visible in both (or all) instances of the editor.
>>
>> But, that doesn't keep me from working on them just fine.
>>
>> (And, if I save the file in one instance of the editor after making
>> changes, when I go to that file in an other instance of the editor,
>> I'm warned that the file on disk doesn't match the one I'm about to
>> edit, and I'm prompted to do things like reload the file.  (Nedit is
>> an example.))
>
> geany will do the same (I've made use of this in the past. Open a log
> file in geany then re-run the code that generates the file and geany
> will ask me if I want to reload the file). As I understand things, you
> can force a new instance of geany, and you could open a file in both
> instances. Personally if I want to look at one part of a file and edit
> another, I prefer to use something passive like "less", which is far
> less prone to accidental overwriting.
>
> Jon

Hi Jon,

You don't have to forgo Geany if you only want to read the file in
another instance, just set Document->read only and you don't have to
accept anything less (boom boom :-).

The problems are when editing prefs/projects/files in more than one instance.

Cheers
Lex

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