[Geany] Request for feedback: Geanyuniq

Lex Trotman elextr at xxxxx
Tue Feb 21 03:47:53 UTC 2012


On 21 February 2012 14:34, Ross McKay <rosko at zeta.org.au> wrote:
> Lex Trotman wrote:
>
>>Whilst I don't think this is an everyday use plugin, I am sure it can
>>occasionally be useful and will be worthwhile putting in plugins
>>somewhere.
>
> Anyone doing a bit of data wrangling will come across this requirement

Why do people still do data wrangling in text this many years after
the invention of the day-tar base. (rhetorical question ;-)

[...]
> In fact, the predominant Scintilla- based editor on Windows, Notepad++,
> has a nifty plugin called TextFX that does thus plus dozens of other
> really nice text transforms because they can be so handy. Perhaps this
> plugin can one day become the Geany equivalent :)

Maybe Emil could take that as a challenge, at least he knows where to
look for ideas :) and this plugin could be the start of an incremental
implementation.

Cheers
Lex



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