[Geany-Users] Copy and paste files?

[Lex Trotman]

Chris,

On 9 May 2017 at 16:59, Chris Spencer <chrisspen at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a really rude response...

It wasn't intending to be rude, apologies if it seemed so.

But it was intending to make my personal view clear, and I
acknowledged others disagreed.  And Matthew subsequently posted
another point of view.  Geany is a group of contributors, not a single
homogeneous point of view.

>
> This doesn't seem all that unreasonable. The Tree Browser already has
> "Create new file", "Delete" and "Rename". So you can open a file, copy the
> contents, create a new file, and paste the contents. Why is having a single
> content menu shortcut for that so terrible?

Well, as I have posted elsewhere I strongly disagree with the whole
idea of file management embedded in the IDE.  That someone has
implemented some of it in an external plugin doesn't change my view
that its a bad idea for Geany itself.

It is essentially a resource sink, there is always "just" one more
function it should do (similar to your request), one more filesystem
type it should support etc.

Maintaining file managers as part of desktops is a major effort, and
duplicating it inside a project like Geany seems stupid when all
systems come with a properly integrated full function file management
capability.  As I said in the PS, if it is part of other added value
that the system file manager does not provide, then it is more
sensible.

However the plugins in the geany-plugins project (like treebrowser)
are maintained by individuals, not by the Geany project.  Provided
that they do not cause issues for Geany users (like losing data or
crashing) they can add whatever functionality they want. You will have
noticed that there are two different project management plugins and
several debugger plugins because different people wanted different
functionality.

Hopefully this longer answer makes clear the distinction between
adding file management functionality to Geany itself (I hate the idea)
and adding it to plugins (ok, fine, if you want to spend your effort
on it).

But the treebrowser plugin currently has no one maintaining it.
Volunteers are welcome.

Cheers
Lex

>
> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> 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]
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>> PS Such file management operations made sense as part of refactoring
>> functions in tightly integrated IDEs like Eclipse which managed the
>> build.  But Geany is a lightweight IDE and is not integrated to that
>> extent.
>>
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