Re: [gedit-list] plugin makefiles? (gedit 2.12)

[John Pye <john pye student unsw edu au>]

This is a followup to a message which I should have CCed to the list:

Here are some screenshots of TextPad for you to look at, for ideas on
the 'tools' implementation:
http://pye.dyndns.org/gedit/

The first (01) shows the preferences page where a tool is configured (in
this case PHP CLI).

(02) Here is the output of GNU Make. The highlighted text was
double-clicked, the regular expression matched the highlighted text and...

(03)...took me to the line of code in question. Notice that the
remaining porting of the line has appeared in the status bar, allowing
you to diagnose the fault.

(04) Note that textpad also provides a nice way to move through the
links in the command output, I don't need to go back to the list each time.

(05) Finally, here is the 'find in files' feature. Note that this uses
another 'special document window' called 'Search Results', but provides
the same clickable-line-reference feature. Also, when multiple
find-in-files are performed, they are simply added to the end of the
list. To clear the list, you just close the search results window.

JP

Rafael Jannone wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>John Pye escreveu:
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>>Hey I think you guys are onto a good idea there. Can I suggest that you
>>take a look at the way the Windows editor 'TextPad' does this stuff? It
>>has a really nice interface for running external programs/'tools' and
>>what's really good is the way it captures the output and turn does a
>>regular expression match on the output give you clickable links. It uses
>>the same concept to implement a really powerful and easy-to-use 'Find in
>>Files' command as well.
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>That's interesting, I like the "regexp on output" idea.
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>>With this Textpad implementation, you can compile stuff with GCC from
>>inside TextPad and click on the output to jump to the line in your code
>>which contains the error. It makes for a really simple, lightweight IDE
>>that can be used with any language/tool - Java, php, python, GNU Make, etc.
>>
>>TextPad runs sort-of-OK under WINE and it's free to download, so check
>>it out if you get a chance, or I'll send you some screenshots if you'd
>>prefer. www.textpad.com
>>
>>Cheers
>>JP
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>Sure, I'll take a look, thanks for the input! :)
>
>BTW, I'm not sure but, didn't you forget to CC this e-mail to the
>gedit-list?
>
>--
>Rafael Jannone
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>

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