[Geany] Bunch of feature requests...

[Sayth Renshaw]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The best thing about geany is that it is powerful because it is simple
>> intuitive and just works.
>>
>> The closest parallel I can think of is eproject and ecb from emacs.
>
> I haven't used these, but a quick look at the docs doesn't suggest
> anything very revolutionary.  Most of what these do is covered (as
> best I can tell) by Geany capabilities or plugins.
>
> BTW have you checked on what the plugins can do for you?  As you say
> above the Geany philosophy is KISS, so things are put in plugins so
> that users can choose the parts they want, they are not forced to load
> a lot of functionality they don't want.  And in a tool supporting lots
> of computer languages that is important, when I am doing C I don't
> want that Ruby rubbish, but when I am doing Ruby ...
>
> Of course that needs people to look at the plugins, but other than
> more enthusiastically urging users to do that, I am not sure how to
> document them as part of Geany as some are provided (with many thanks)
> from outside the Geany team.
>
> As mentioned earlier in the thread, there is also another "project"
> plugin coming that claims to do file handling and filtering for *very*
> large projects.
>
>>
>> A project should be a directory with a collection of files that you
>> are managing.
>>
>> So if I had a project called "new_Project"
>>
>> new_Project
>>      Source_Files
>>          main.rb
>>          does_Something.rb
>>          Something.rhtml
>>     (Optional)
>>     Spec files(Project Specific) - you have acknlowledged above.
>>      Junit/Rake files etc
>
> Also, you do know that you can define commands in the project
> settings, and they are only applied when that project is open?  This
> allows you to have different commands for projects in different
> languages or which use different tools.  I even have had a project
> with two project files one for windows and one for Linux with
> differing commands, I am not aware of that available anywhere else.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
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> Also, you do know that you can define commands in the project
> settings, and they are only applied when that project is open?  This
> allows you to have different commands for projects in different
> languages or which use different tools.  I even have had a project
> with two project files one for windows and one for Linux with
> differing commands, I am not aware of that available anywhere else.


Seriously :- ) , no, wow no idea will have a look.

I saw an email previously about a wiki, this may understand all the
options available.

Sayth