[Geany-Users] Ruby indent not working

[Lex Trotman]

On 18 January 2013 08:00, Thomas Martitz
<thomas.martitz at student.htw-berlin.de> wrote:
> Am 17.01.2013 21:28, schrieb Lex Trotman:
>
>> On 17 January 2013 23:02, Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I just installed geany 1.22 on a windows 7 laptop and I am starting into
>>> rails. So I am tinkering with ruby files which I haven't done before.
>>>
>>> The thing is geany isn't indenting my files.
>>>
>>> I created a file test.rb and just typed a multi array and printed it to
>>> output as a test.
>>>
>>> However I got no indenting so it looks like.
>>>
>>> my_array = [[1,0],[2,1],[3,2]]
>>>
>>> my_array.each do |x|
>>> x.each do |y|
>>> puts y
>>> end
>>> end
>>>
>>> when it should look like.
>>>
>>> my_array = [[1,0],[2,1],[3,2]]
>>>
>>> my_array.each do |x|
>>> x.each do |y|
>>> puts y
>>> end
>>> end
>>>
>>> Not sure if I have missed something Ruby specific
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Well, sort of, or rather Geany has missed something, Ruby specific
>> support for indenting :)
>>
>> Geany autoindent is almost language independent, it knows how to:
>>
>> 1. go to the same indent as last line
>> 2. indent and unindent on { and }
>> 3. as a special case only, indent on : in Python
>>
>> None of these will work for Ruby IIUC.
>>
>> What it needs is for someone to specify the algorithm, and to provide
>> a plugin that implements it (such language specific stuff shouldn't be
>> in core)
>>
>
> I disagree.
>
> This is something that ought to be in the core, really. Language support is
> a core feature of Geany (and any IDE). It should work out of the box and not
> reside in disabled-by-default extensions. Especially if python can have its
> special case in the core.
>
> What else, if not language support, belongs to the core? And since when is
> handling/enabling indentation a plugin-thing?

Hi Thomas,

None of the language specifics belong in core, given the ever
increasing number of languages it would bloat Geany far too much to
include all requested language specific features in core.  This would
cause a cost that all users must bear, irrespective of what languages
they want to use.

There is no reason why language specific plugins should not be
distributed with Geany, like Class Builder, HTML Characters and
friends.

Your point about enabling is reasonable, but there is nothing from
preventing such plugins from being enabled automatically when a file
of the specific filetype is opened (filetypes are not loaded until
needed, so it just becomes another part of that process using a list
(in the filetypes file) of which plugins to enable for this filetype).

The fact that Python indenting is currently built-in is historical and
shouldn't be taken as an invitation for more languages to do the same
:)

Cheers
Lex

>
> Best regards.
>
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