[Geany-Users] Geany “send current selection to” command line or batch file(as argument) or browser in Windows

[rch]

60840A_Geanyusers.txt
10.11.2015 08:00:43 CET

    Thats magic (see above two lines)

    Question:- Does this only work with template files
    that are empty except for the two lines
    {untitled}
    {date}
    ?

    I tried adding those two lines
    at top of my existing Perl template text.pl
    which is 240 lines long.

    The new Perl file opens with the date
    already nicely filled in; it looks like this

    untitled
    10.11.2015 08:11:12 CET
    #!/usr/bin/perl
    ...snip...

    But when I save it using same procedure
    as for the txt file, the top line "untitled"
    does not change at all.

    Perhaps I'll need to learn some scripting [1]
    R
[1]
> Note that the mini
> script interface offers the option to save scripts and load them, and
> that's really powerful since the sky's the limit on what you can do
> to a file if you know how to script it. (:



On 11/09/2015 12:07 AM, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> rch wrote:
> 
>>     Little Girl wrote
>>     > It's not written very clearly (sorry, devs!). Here's
>>     > a more clear set of instructions that should get it
>>     > working for you:
>  
>>     Thats _very_ helpful.
> 
> I'm glad it was of use. (:
> 
>> Could you translate another bit of «Dynamic wildcards» for me?
> 
> I can try!
>  
>>     At
>> http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#template-wildcards
>> how do I make a keyboard short cut that will paste Wildcard
>> «filename» into my file ? Preferably the full path-and-file name.
>  
>>     And (better still) would it be possible to add the
>>     current date or datetime on the following line ?
> 
> Well, there's good news and bad news. You can add a placeholder (that
> gets replaced by the current file's name when you save the file) and
> the date (or date and time) using the instructions at that link only
> when creating a new file, because those instructions are for
> creating and using a template. In the event that you want to try
> that, here's my version of those instructions specifically for adding
> the file name and date (or date and time):
> 
> ====================
> 1) Open your ~/.config/geany/templates/files directory in a file
> manager (you'll need to enable the display of hidden files to get to
> it).
> 2) Create a new text file in the directory with whatever name you'd
> like it to have (you could create myfirsttemplate.txt as an initial
> experiment). Note that Geany will automatically suggest the same
> extension for saving files created with that template.
> 3) Open the file you just created in Geany.
> 4) Type this into it:
> {untitled}
> {date}
> 5) Save the file.
> 6) Left-click File in the toolbar.
> 7) Left-click New (with Template) in the menu.
> 8) Left-click the name of your template. A new file will be created
> with untitled on the first line and the date on the second line. The
> cursor will be blinking at the beginning of the first line.
> 9) Use the arrow keys or the mouse to move the cursor below the two
> automatically inserted lines of text.
> 10) Press the Enter key *or* type something inside the file and press
> the Enter key. (Note: The Enter key is vital to Geany for some reason
> - it will not replace the wildcard without a press of that key.)
> 11) Left-click File in the toolbar.
> 12) Left-click Save As in the menu.
> 13) Type in a name for the file.
> 14) Left-click the Save button or press the Enter key. The untitled
> wildcard will be replaced with the file's name.
> 
> Alternative: If you'd rather have the date and time, replace {date}
> above with {datetime}.
> ====================
> 
> As for keyboard shortcuts, you can press Alt + E and then press E
> again and then use the arrow keys to select one of the date formats
> to insert the date into a message.
> 
> An alternative to that would be to press Alt + T and then press M to
> open the mini script interface. If you had already typed date into
> the text area, you could click the Execute button. Or you can type
> date into the text area and then click the Execute button, and then
> from then on you won't need to type it again. Note that the mini
> script interface offers the option to save scripts and load them, and
> that's really powerful since the sky's the limit on what you can do
> to a file if you know how to script it. (:
>