[Geany-Users] Copy and paste files?

Robert Fekete fekete77.robert at xxxxx
Tue May 9 06:54:39 UTC 2017


I use the terminal at the bottom of geany :)
It's awesome, and if you absolutely need a better file manager, you can
even run midnight commander in it.

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:

> 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
>
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