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

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

Hi Paolo,

Thanks for digging up that link from your archive. I must have missed
it. I've had a look at the glade files, and read the thread (except the
long IRC chat). I thought the design was really nice.

My view is that it would be great to have all that power through the GUI
but I would really love to see *anything* for now. Most of all, I want
to be able to launch external tools (not necessary pure console apps,
perhaps console+gui apps) and to capture the output and then have
clickable regular expressions in the output.

There needs to be the ability for the tools to prompt for additional
parameters, for example to pass search strings to 'grep'.

I think that this fairly simple thing adds huge power to gedit very
cheaply. I think the 'jump to next' this is a great one too -- did you
see that?

If there's any way we could have an easy-to-compile, easy-to-install
version of Rafael's plugin to go on with, one that I could install
without having to recompile the whole of gedit, then that would be very
much appreciated.

Cheers,
JP

Paolo Maggi wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>as I said in my mail, we already have a mockup for the GUI and some idea
>about the design.
>Since we already spend some time thinking about it I suggest to use our
>documents as a starting point. 
>Note that our idea implements most (maybe all) the feature John
>suggested.
>
>Read the thread starting with
>http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gedit-list/2003-September/msg00010.html
>for more info.
>
>Note that, due to the introduction of new widgets in gtk+, the mockups
>need to be "modernized" a bit.
>
>BTW, I like also the idea of the "Scripts Folder" as implemented by
>Rafael, may be we could see it as an "alternative" way to define tools.
>
>Ciao,
>Paolo
>
>On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:38 +1000, John Pye wrote:
>  
>
>>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:
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>That's interesting, I like the "regexp on output" idea.
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>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
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>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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