Am 05.06.2013 13:46, schrieb Thrawn:
Hi, folks.
Lex, thanks for your comments. I have heard before about GeanyLua's
future being uncertain, and I did email the list suggesting that I
would be willing to be an emergency backup maintainer. Ie I don't
generally have the time, but given a choice between fixing a severe
problem and losing the plugin, I'd step up.
Just tonight I've uploaded another script to the Geany Wiki, for
surrounding the current selection with brackets, tags, etc. That
fulfils another item from the plugin wishlist. It took about 40 lines
(including comments and debug lines) and 15 minutes.
I strongly urge that GeanyLua be retained. I think that it and GeanyPy
are the way of the future for plugin development, and since GeanyPy
isn't available precompiled, GeanyLua is the only out-of-the-box
candidate for developing a useful feature (that would normally involve
a plugin) in an hour or less. The documentation is clear; the API is
simple but effective; there's no boilerplate (no import statements, no
class declarations, no metadata, just code); deployment is just a
matter of copying the script into the geanylua directory and
restarting/rescanning; and it integrates nicely with the keybinding
system.
Anyone who wants to develop a plugin, or wishes for a feature that
some other editor has, should consider GeanyLua. It might not do what
they need, but if it does, they'll be able to do it within an
afternoon. I'm already maintaining 6 different Lua-powered features
(some of which involve multiple scripts), with a 7th to be uploaded
soon, and it's easy.
I believe GeanyLua is nice, but it still needs a maintainer :) You could
be the one!
Best regards
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