[Geany] How to add symbols to the Symbol tab

[Robert Fekete]

Hi Lex,

Thank you very much for your pointers and the swift reply.
Though I am not a programmer, I managed to tweak docbook.c to extract
the IDs from some other tags. (Probably not as it should, but works
for me :) )
I'll see if I can convince someone with more skill to create a patch
for #2, and send you a patch for it.

Kind Regards,

Robert


On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 April 2012 18:14, Robert Fekete <fekete77.robert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using Geany to edit DocBook XML files, and I find the Symbols tab
>> very useful, but I have the following questions about it:
>>
>> - Currently the tab lists only the ID attributes of the <chapter> and
>> <section> tags. How can I add other tags to this list? Especially
>> <procedure>, but some others would be useful as well.
>
> The tags are parsed by tagmanager/docbook.c
>
> It is pretty small so you should not have too much trouble figuring
> out how to add extra element types if you can program in C.
>
>> - Is it possible to list the symbols by appearance by default?
>> Currently I have to manually change this setting for every file.
>
> Well, for most programming, having the symbols in alphabetical order
> is the right thing to do, so thats the default.  As you noted it is a
> per-file setting and there is no way to store it per file.  Making the
> default per filetype might be your solution, but that would take some
> work and well, somebodys got to do it.  But patches are welcome.
>
>> - The symbol tab now shows the sections and chapters in a separate
>> list, and that way the hierarchy of the tags (the structure of the
>> file) is lost. It is possible to display the list in a tree?
>
> The current tagmanager code is not very good at hierarchy handling
> (although it does it, it isn't good) and there is work under way to
> replace it.  Until then I would say the answer is theoretically yes
> with suitable code changes in docbook.c to build the hierarchy in the
> right order, but practically no.
>
>>
>> I am running Geany 1.22 (Tavira) on Ubuntu, built from source, so I
>> can make minor changes to the code if needed.
>
> I would say item 1 is minor and involves one file only, item 2 is
> somewhat more significant and may involve several files in Geany's
> core so more care is needed, and item 3 is forget it until the
> tagmanager is replaced (otherwise you may need to re-do it).
>
> Cheers
> Lex
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