On 1 August 2012 16:04, Gour <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:40:10 +0200 > Colomban Wendling <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> You mean it reflows the paragraph (^J) but keep the ">" at line >> starts, right? > > Exactly. > >> No, Geany doesn't currently know there can be stuff that should be >> kept when reflowing. However I agree that such a feature, if it can >> also work with comments and strings, too, would be very handy :) > > :-) > >> The easiest way to add this would probably be a plugin providing an >> alternative reflow implementation that takes care of keeping the >> leading ">". > > Actually, vim (and Emacs as well, iirc), can reflow paragraph > with nested 'quotes', e.g. "> >".
Geany isn't a vim or emacs clone, so nobody really cared to read their mail in Geany enough to do it. > > Providing plugin means hacking in C, right? Yep. > >> The best implementation would probably be to teach Geany to keep such >> constructs when reflowing (comments, strings, etc.). > > Yeah, that wouldbe more 'general' solution. Would be "nice" but is very language specific, would need language dependent smarts which lives in plugins not in core these days. > >> About a mail format, I'd think one of the text formatting filetypes >> (txt2tags, REsT, Markdown) knowing ">" for quoting would probably be >> sufficient -- and since they already exists, you wouldn't have to add >> a new one :) I'd have thought just plain text with the smarty_pants_reflow_plugin would be enough, but I guess markup filetypes might highlight links and things for you. > > Hmmm...I'm just not sure (just starting with REsT and forgot about the > other two) how they are supposed to handle nested stuff. > >> Hehe, Neverland's so close! Yet so far away :) Cheers Lex PS in answer to your next, if a (acceptable if not perfect) existing filetype exists a custom filetype is just config file stuff, see the manual, if you want something not in scintilla then its C++ as well. > > :-() > > > Sincerely, > Gour > > > -- > While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person > develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust > develops, and from lust anger arises. > > http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810 > > _______________________________________________ > Geany mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany > _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
