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

[Lex Trotman]

On 5 November 2013 16:14, lmx <lmx1 at sapo.pt> wrote:

>  On 05/11/13 03:17, Lex Trotman wrote:
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> On 5 November 2013 13:11, James Brierley <jmb8710 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi guys,
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>> 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'.
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>> 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.
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>  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.
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> Hi,
> does you know if it's possible to add in some way the plugin GUI to the
> right side of Geany, when it is loaded, without too much effort?
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The split window plugin divides the edit window into two, which is what I
think you are trying to do, so have a look at that.

Cheers
Lex



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> this is more or less , how it is at the moment.
> https://meocloud.pt/link/0caff1c1-13de-459b-8de7-a398d5d7904d/Share
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> don't  look to the code(  :-D )...its only a sketch, the code will be
> revised further.
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> regards
> tux
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>> 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.
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>  Sadly no augmentation is available.
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>> 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? ;)
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>  Thats what they say, but I don't believe it </luddite>
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>> By the way, I'm not a Geany developer, just a layman in the Cult of Geany.
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>  :)
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>  Cheers
> Lex
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>> James
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>> --
>> "Unix is the worst computer operating system, except
>> all the others that have been tried."
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