[Geany-Users] Creating a version of Geany for Microcontrollers

[Lex Trotman]

On 5 November 2013 13:11, James Brierley <jmb8710 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Just to say, I definitely think that extending Geany to support
> microcontrollers and embedded development is a good idea -- I'm an Arduino
> user myself and I can't stand the supplied (so-called) 'IDE'.
>
> But -- just a suggestion -- I think it would be better to implement this
> through plugins, rather than forking Geany or deriving something completely
> separate. What I like about Geany is that it's quite modular, and I think
> it's worth taking advantage of this.
>

Yes, such specific modifications to core probably will not be merged back
into the upstream Geany.  But even very specific plugins can be part of
geany-plugins.


>
> Regarding having a listing of the assembly instructions, registers etc. of
> an MCU, I'm wondering if it might be better to work with Geany's 'tags'
> functionality. See for instance /usr/share/geany/filetypes.c and
> http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#tags. I admit that I
> haven't really looked into how the API interacts with tags files or whether
> it would be possible to augment them with any kind of documentation, etc.
>

Sadly no augmentation is available.



>
> I don't think a database is necessarily the worst idea, but a WebKit
> datasheet viewer would seem to make more sense... isn't 'the cloud' where
> it's at these days? ;)
>

Thats what they say, but I don't believe it </luddite>


>
> By the way, I'm not a Geany developer, just a layman in the Cult of Geany.


:)

Cheers
Lex


>
>
> James
>
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> all the others that have been tried."
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