[Geany-Users] Geany templates

[Lex Trotman]

On 13 November 2015 at 01:38, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Lex Trotman wrote:
>
>> On 12 November 2015 at 01:46, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>
>> I meant that Geany ends the substitution at the first } so:
>> {command: something {ob}{untitled}{ob}} will be seen as the command
>> "something {ob" or the command "something " depending if the {ob}
>> is substituted before or after the command one (didn't check).
>>
>> So it will never do anything useful.
>
> Yep, and my failed attempts to get it to do anything useful bear that
> out. (:
>
>> > This works if it's in the first four lines of the template:
>> >
>> > # file://{command:pwd}/{filename}
>>
>> should work anywhere IIUC
>
> It only works in the first four lines of the template for me in Geany
> 1.25 under Linux Mint MATE 17.1  'Rebecca'. Maybe it's a bug?

So probably worth saying where it doesn't work.

>
>> >> The $GEANY_FILENAME and friends are only given values if they are
>> >> known, but the filename isn't known for a new file so the
>> >> variable is set but to nothing.  That may be your problem.
>> >
>> > When would be a good time to use $GEANY_FILENAME?
>>
>> Actually if you put it that way it doesn't seem to be very useful
>> that I can tell, but maybe somebody else has an idea.
>
> LOL! I'll mess around with using it in various ways and places in
> Geany to see where it would be of use, and if I figure it out, I'll
> share in here. (:

A quick thought that I havn't time ATM to check, but maybe if its used
on a comment template which can be pasted in after the file is saved
it might be of some use, but not in new file templates.

Cheers
Lex

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