[Geany] relative paths in project files: is there an option?

[Jiří Techet]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 19:52, Dimitar Zhekov <dimitar.zhekov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:28:12 +0200
> Stephan Beal <sgbeal at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there an option to enable the use of relative paths in the project files?
>
> From the look of get_session_file_string(), no.
>
> I remember such a discussion taking place some time ago. It was not so
> straightforward - for example, what about the files not under the
> project directory? Store /var/log/foo as [../]{N times}/var/log/foo? Or,
> for files in a nearby directory, break them each time you copy the
> project and open it from the new location? (Well the last operation is
> dangerous currently - you'll be working on the previous files.)
>
> It would have been nice to store anything under the project directory
> as relative, and everything outside as absolute, but some of the
> developers opposed even to that, can't remember why. There was also
> talk about storing each filename as both relative and absolute, and try
> to open the relative first. I thought that was implemented, but don't
> see it anywhere. So, for now, what you see in the title is what you get.

This is a part of my not-yet-reviewed patches. The only difference is
that I try to open the absolute paths before the relative ones to keep
the patch as compatible with the current behaviour as possible. But
it's not a problem to swap the order (it looks it makes more sense
when reading Stephan's problems).

Cheers,

Jiri