[Geany-Users] new plugin for automatic alignment

[John Yeung]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a general comment, Thomas is right, catching every notify and
> re-styling all the text is going to be too expensive.

It didn't sound to me like the algorithm styles *all* the text, just
nearby text. If your code is in one monolithic block, then yes, it's
all the text. But it doesn't seem like a common case. And your code
wouldn't consist mostly of assignment statements, would it?

> You should detect the char added notify and just do the line that the
> character is added to, and maybe only when = or end of line is typed?
> Don't even look at the previous or next lines.

How can you *align* the current line if not by checking previous or
next lines? And if it turns out the line you've currently typed does
have the longest variable name so far, what's the point of the plug-in
if it doesn't go back and fix the previous lines to this one?

John Y.