[Geany-Users] Copy and paste files?

[Matthew Brush]

On 2017-05-08 02:54 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On 9 May 2017 at 01:34, Chris Spencer <chrisspen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a plugin that allows the one of the sidebar tabs to support copying
>> and pasting files? Neither the "project" nor "tree browser" nor "files" nor
>> "documents" tabs seem to have this ability.
>
> No.  Its called the file manager, and comes with your operating system.
>
> [Disclaimer: its one of my pet peeves that people expect us to waste
> time duplicating system functions, others disagree, YMMV]
>

I disagree. All current OSes, including most popular Linux distros, have 
horrible file managers (ie. no explorer tree, annoying UIs, crippled 
features, etc).

Also it's incredibly handy to have file management right at your 
fingertips without having to context switch into the OS and fumble with 
whatever that platform tries to pass off as a file manager. Managing 
files is a huge part of working with a source base, and IMO is 
completely appropriate to have available in an IDE (presumably why all 
IDEs have some form of file management).

Regards,
Matthew Brush