Re: [gedit-list] Enhancement requested

[Jerry DeLisle <jvdelisle verizon net>]

Paolo Borelli wrote:

> > 
> > When I reopen a file in gvim, it remembers where I was at in the last
> > session and that is where it opens into the file.  That is very
> > valuable.  Like I said, when I am working multiple source files, it
> > helps to remember where I left off automatically.
> >  
> > As far as I know, gedit does not do this.  When I reopen a file, its
> > always at the top, looking at the familiar gnu license stuff.  (I do
> > development and testing for gfortran in my spare time).
> >  


> Actually we implemented this, but we ended up disabling that for a
> couple of reasons:
> 1 - it wasn't working properly  :) 
> 2 - enabling it incoditionally was confusing some of our users
>
> I'm pretty confident that 1) is now fixed since we fixed "gedit +10 foo"
> which opens a file and moves to line 10 and which uses the same code
> path.
> About 2) we should probably try again or at least add a GConf toggle for
> it.

> For now you can enable the feature by grabbing the source, editing
> gedit-document.c in the function gedit_document_real_loaded and enabling
> the bit of code that is currently commented out. Then compile and
> install.

Hi All,

I finally was able to get gedit to compile.  I did the above suggested change 
and see no change of behavior.

Any further suggestions?

Jerry