<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You don't mention what OS you are using, but assuming its Linux (since you are cd-ing) did you look in the distros repositories for the plugin? Most distros include Geany, and the plugins collection, and many also disassemble the collection so you can install only one plugin at a time.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Cheers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Lex</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 00:52, Adalbert Hanßen <<a href="mailto:Adalbert.Hanssen@gmx.de">Adalbert.Hanssen@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans">Dear list members,</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans">In search for a text
editor with marco recording capabilities I came across this
website: <br>
</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans"><a href="https://plugins.geany.org/geanymacro.html" target="_blank">https://plugins.geany.org/geanymacro.html</a>.
(Hint: just add a link to the place from where I can download
the searched-for plugin. That would make life easier).<br>
</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans">The descritipon looks
like this is exactly what I am looking for. I search for the
place from which it can be downloaded, I came across<br>
</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans"><a href="https://plugins.geany.org/downloads.html" target="_blank">https://plugins.geany.org/downloads.html</a><br>
</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans">showing me </font></font><br>
</p>
<h2>Download Geany-Plugins</h2>
The latest version is 1.35, you should take a look at the <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geany/geany-plugins/1.35.0/NEWS" target="_blank">release
notes</a>.<br>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Download</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>SIG</th>
<th>MD5 / <a href="https://plugins.geany.org/downloads.html?site=downloads&hash=sha1" target="_blank">SHA1</a>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="https://plugins.geany.org/geany-plugins/geany-plugins-1.35.tar.gz" target="_blank">geany-plugins-1.35.tar.gz</a></td>
<td>Source Code</td>
<td><a href="https://plugins.geany.org/geany-plugins/geany-plugins-1.35.tar.gz.sig" target="_blank">GPG
Signature</a></td>
<td>
<pre>fe9275a2a16c515339c6f27976f811c0</pre>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="https://plugins.geany.org/geany-plugins/geany-plugins-1.35.tar.bz2" target="_blank">geany-plugins-1.35.tar.bz2</a></td>
<td>Source Code</td>
<td><a href="https://plugins.geany.org/geany-plugins/geany-plugins-1.35.tar.bz2.sig" target="_blank">GPG
Signature</a></td>
<td>
<pre>7df13d341df0c580a41c760509fefca5</pre>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="https://plugins.geany.org/geany-plugins/geany-plugins-1.35_setup.exe" target="_blank">geany-plugins-1.35_setup.exe</a></td>
<td>Win32 Installer</td>
<td><a href="https://plugins.geany.org/geany-plugins/geany-plugins-1.35_setup.exe.sig" target="_blank">GPG
Signature</a></td>
<td>
<pre>44f7e8ecb975fb56578b64b3e2fc6fcb</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans">The instructions to
install the desired plugin (which are described on the same
page) did not enable me to achieve the desired goal.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans">It should be:</font></font></p>
<ol>
<li><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans">download the packed
archieve in the form you like best.</font></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans">click onto the item
in the column SIG of the line you have chosen to download
the *.sig file for the downloaded item.</font></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans">cd to your Download
directory or the place wher you have put the two downloaded
files.</font></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans">import the key of the
author via </font></font><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu
Sans"> <font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><code>gpg
--recv-keys B507ACD04BA283C9</code></font></font></font></li>
<li><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans"><font face="Courier
10 Pitch"><i>add the necessary steps to make the program
from the downloaded sourcecode.</i><br>
</font></font></font></li>
</ol>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Courier 10 Pitch">There is some
description, but when I follow it, I don't get through.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Courier 10 Pitch">In the fourth step
I encounter:</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1">$ <b>gpg --recv-keys B507ACD04BA283C9</b><br>
gpg: Schlüssel 4BA283C9 von hkp-Server <a href="http://keys.gnupg.net" target="_blank">keys.gnupg.net</a> anfordern<br>
<font color="#ff0000">gpgkeys: key B507ACD04BA283C9 can't be
retrieved<br>
gpg: Keine gültigen OpenPGP-Daten gefunden.<br>
gpg: Anzahl insgesamt bearbeiteter Schlüssel: 0<br>
gpg: Schlüsselserver-Datenübertragunsfehler: keyserver helper
general error<br>
gpg: Schlüsselserver-Datenübertragunsfehler: Unbekanntes
Public-Key-Verfahren<br>
gpg: Empfangen vom Schlüsselserver fehlgeschlagen: Unbekanntes
Public-Key-Verfahren</font><br>
$</font></p>
<p><font size="+1" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Note: From
other trials, gpg --list-keys shows me these keys, apparently I
already have the key of the author:<br>
</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">pub 4096R/4BA283C9 2018-04-04 [verfällt:
2020-04-03]<br>
uid Frank Lanitz <a class="gmail-m_-5956699337174040013moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:frank@lanitz.info" target="_blank"><frank@lanitz.info></a><br>
uid Frank Lanitz <a class="gmail-m_-5956699337174040013moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:frlan@fsfe.org" target="_blank"><frlan@fsfe.org></a><br>
uid Frank Lanitz <a class="gmail-m_-5956699337174040013moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:frank@geany.org" target="_blank"><frank@geany.org></a><br>
uid Frank Lanitz <a class="gmail-m_-5956699337174040013moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:frank@mxsrv.org" target="_blank"><frank@mxsrv.org></a><br>
uid Frank Lanitz <a class="gmail-m_-5956699337174040013moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:frank@frank.uvena.de" target="_blank"><frank@frank.uvena.de></a><br>
uid Frank Lanitz <a class="gmail-m_-5956699337174040013moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:frank.lanitz@seznam.cz" target="_blank"><frank.lanitz@seznam.cz></a><br>
sub 4096R/0E29452D 2018-04-04 [verfällt: 2020-04-03]</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Of course, the other commands to make and
possibly install the plkugin should be shown there too or on a
linked page (in case they are the same for many plugins which
are delivered as source code poackages only.</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Kind regards</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Adalbert Hanßen<br>
</font></p>
<p><font size="+1"></font><br>
</p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="DejaVu Sans"></font></font><br>
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