[Geany-Users] Multiple projects support?

[Lars Paulsen]

Hi Lex,

thanks for the detailed answer. I already suspected that there is no 
real multiple project support.

That is something that I am really missing.

What I like on Geany is the simplicity and the de-coupling of the editor 
and other development tools (compiler, build system...). That is really 
a nice principle. All thumbs-up for that!

But not having multiple project support is IMHO quite an inconvenience.

Would it be theoretically possible to write a plugin for that? Or do you 
know any design constraints which would make this impossible?

Cheers,
Lars

Am 13.06.2017 um 23:13 schrieb Lex Trotman:
> Hi
> 
> Geany "projects" are just collections of settings and session
> information, effectively named sessions, so it is not possible and
> does not make sense to have more than one open at once.
> 
> The project plugins extend the semantics to consider the project
> directory and the files in it "special", but as they are extensions to
> the Geany built-in projects, they also cannot have more than one open.
> 
> I don't think there are any plugins that associate projects with files
> and so allow you to have more than one open.
> 
> Certainly you can open more than one isntance of Geany, just be aware
> that changes to settings in the configuration in one instance will not
> be noticed by other instances, and the settings saved will be the last
> instance closed.
> 
> Cheers
> Lex
> 
> On 14 June 2017 at 05:22, Lars Paulsen <lars_paulsen at web.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I got a question about project support in geany:
>> Is there a way to open multiple projects at the same time?
>>
>> I had a look at the plugins "Project Organizer" and "GeanyPrj".
>> Although this plugins improve the project support it does not seem to be
>> possible to manage several projects at once.
>>
>> Am I overseeing something? Are there other plugins on different sites than
>> http://plugins.geany.org/ which support multiple projects?
>> Thanks for any answers in advance.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Lars
>>
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