[Geany-Users] Stateless configuration

Thomas Martitz thomas.martitz at xxxxx
Sat Nov 16 21:50:23 UTC 2013


Am 16.11.2013 22:46, schrieb Lex Trotman:
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> On 17 November 2013 08:17, Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita at gmail.com 
> <mailto:carlosjosepita at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi all,
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>     I use to synchronize my dotfiles between computers by means of a git
>     repo. geany saves some local state in its user configuration file so
>     it changes after every session, cluttering my change log and sharing
>     strictly local state between different installations. Is it possible
>     to separate configuration items from state items? Or at least to keep
>     the configuration options I've explicitly changed in a different file?
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> Unfortunately not, there have been discussions about separating 
> sessions information from config information, but there are 
> complications and no suitable design has been arrived at.
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IMO session information should be stored in a separate file. What are 
the complications?

Best regards.


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