There was Webhelper in Geany-plugins that provided a preview, but unfortunately building Geany/plugins won't help, the Webhelper plugin has never been updated to support the GTK3 version of the libraries needed to provide a preview.
There was a PR to update it back in 2016 or thereabouts, but it switched to GTK3 and abandoned GTK2, and it was judged too early for that to happen. That PR has bitrotted and nobody has updated it, contributions are welcome. Cheers Lex On Sat, 23 Jul 2022 at 20:55, o1bigtenor <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 5:42 AM Bert Vercauteren via Users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi group, > > > > Linux user here.. MXLinux. > > I use Geany almost only as an html-editor. > > I've been using an old version of Epiphany a.k.a. Web as the live preview, > > because it automatically updated each time a save was made in the source > > code in Geany. But it was not very stable and slowed down a lot. For the > > moment I use Firefox as the preview engine. It's okay, but there's no > > auto-refresh, so I have to hit the FF refresh button after each change. > > > > In older Geany information there was talk about a Geany html plugin that > > had a html preview. That plugin seems to be removed. > > > > I found an unofficial package on the web, downloaded it, but there the joy > > ended: It seemed to be source code, needing compiling, something that is > > far beyond my knowledge. It was called "webkit-preview" or something > > similar. > > > > Hope I described my situation enough and hope to read how you experts have > > solved this. > > > > No expert here (I would love to know how to write html code by the > way!!) but I can assure you that compiling source code and installing > it is not that difficult. > > https://www.makeuseof.com/compile-install-software-from-source-linux/ > > One reasonably well written set of instructions. > There are many many more such. > > Search for linux + source code + compiling > > (Caution - - - occasionally one runs into 'dependency hell' or where > you seek to compile and an error happens - - - you need more > tools installed - - - I have had it where there were 6 different > levels of dependencies and I had to install some 30 odd other packages > just to get the one package that I wanted to run - - - - -but it did > run! (That was a very very difficult install and most are very > straight > forward!)) > > I would suggest that you try doing the compiling and installation steps. > > Dunno how the forum here leaders would view further questions but I > for one would suggest that if you can't get the job done > - - - well then - - - come back and ask more questions whilst > providing what you have done and what isn't working. > (Hopefully that behavior is allowed - - - question of the list maintainers) > > HTH > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
