Geany Plugin: gsantner utils

A Geany plugin with various utilies and improvements to general Geany usage.

Features

• json_reformat (Tools menu option)
  • Reformat & reindent the JSON content of the file currently open in editor
• Favourites (File menu option, Toolbar option)
  • You very often open the same files and keep browsing for it? Than that's what you need!
  • Adds a easy accessible option for global favourites
  • Independent to projects, recent files & currently open files
  • Configuration in geany.conf, geanygsantnerutils group, favourites key
    • Semicolon separated list: TITLE;FILEPATH.
    • TITLE: --- adds a separator (no FILEPATH required). >> is replaced by ».
    • FILEPATH: $HOME is replaced by current user home directory.
• Improved sidebar (Tab symbols, files, projects, ...)
  • Rotate tab text to vertical
  • Add a arrow at begin of each tab for easier idenification
  • Use noticeable different color for selected tab
  • Bigger font size and differnt monospace font
• Unclutter default Geany UI
  • Hide some buttons and menu options, whose funconality can be accessed by default on 3-4 places (e.g. keybinding, toolbar, project menu, file menu, file list, ...)
  • Hide close (one/all/other files), save (one/all)

Configuration example

 # ~/.config/geany/geany.conf

[geanygsantnerutils]
favourites=myScripts >> shellscript.sh;/mnt/usb/myScripts/shellscript.sh;---;geany.conf;$HOME/.config/geany/geany.conf

Installation

• Install Geany, GNU C compiler and build-essentials.
• Run make install
• Close all instance of Geany and restart
• Open plugin list and enable geanygsantnerutils plugin

Development

This is the easiest option to develop on this plugin, go to the repo and execute command below. It allows you to edit the plugin in Geany while seeing changes of last build. Quit Geany and it's automatically restarted with new plugin development version.

while [ true ] ; do make install && geany -v && sleep 0.2; done

Resources

• geany reference - https://www.geany.org/manual/reference/
• gtk reference - https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/
• glib reference - https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.60/
• geany source code - https://github.com/geany/geany
• geany glade - https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/data/geany.glade
• geany manual - https://www.geany.org/manual/dev/index.html