On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Sayth Renshaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The best thing about geany is that it is powerful because it is simple >>> intuitive and just works. >>> >>> The closest parallel I can think of is eproject and ecb from emacs. >> >> I haven't used these, but a quick look at the docs doesn't suggest >> anything very revolutionary. Most of what these do is covered (as >> best I can tell) by Geany capabilities or plugins. >> >> BTW have you checked on what the plugins can do for you? As you say >> above the Geany philosophy is KISS, so things are put in plugins so >> that users can choose the parts they want, they are not forced to load >> a lot of functionality they don't want. And in a tool supporting lots >> of computer languages that is important, when I am doing C I don't >> want that Ruby rubbish, but when I am doing Ruby ... >> >> Of course that needs people to look at the plugins, but other than >> more enthusiastically urging users to do that, I am not sure how to >> document them as part of Geany as some are provided (with many thanks) >> from outside the Geany team. >> >> As mentioned earlier in the thread, there is also another "project" >> plugin coming that claims to do file handling and filtering for *very* >> large projects. >> >>> >>> A project should be a directory with a collection of files that you >>> are managing. >>> >>> So if I had a project called "new_Project" >>> >>> new_Project >>> Source_Files >>> main.rb >>> does_Something.rb >>> Something.rhtml >>> (Optional) >>> Spec files(Project Specific) - you have acknlowledged above. >>> Junit/Rake files etc >> >> Also, you do know that you can define commands in the project >> settings, and they are only applied when that project is open? This >> allows you to have different commands for projects in different >> languages or which use different tools. I even have had a project >> with two project files one for windows and one for Linux with >> differing commands, I am not aware of that available anywhere else. >> >> Cheers >> Lex >> _______________________________________________ >> Geany mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany >> > >> Also, you do know that you can define commands in the project >> settings, and they are only applied when that project is open? This >> allows you to have different commands for projects in different >> languages or which use different tools. I even have had a project >> with two project files one for windows and one for Linux with >> differing commands, I am not aware of that available anywhere else. > > > Seriously :- ) , no, wow no idea will have a look. > > I saw an email previously about a wiki, this may understand all the > options available. > > Sayth >
A quick thought maybe plugins being browsed and installed via the plugin manager would give greater access to user contributed and developer contributed content. Sayth _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
