[Geany] Bunch of feature requests...

[Sayth Renshaw]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

A quick thought maybe plugins being browsed and installed via the
plugin manager would give greater access to user contributed and
developer contributed content.

Sayth