Re: [gedit-list] Enhancement requested

[Jerry DeLisle <jvdelisle verizon net>]

Paolo Borelli wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 24/09/2005 alle 01.28 -0700, Jerry DeLisle ha scritto:
>
> > 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?
>
>
> You are totally right, I should have tested that before replying you.
>
> To get it to work you also need to comment out the following two lines
> in the open_files_done function in gedit-file.c
>
> //	if (first_document != NULL)
> //		gedit_document_goto_line (first_document, MAX (0, line - 1));
>
>
> Obviously this is a hack, not a proper soloution, but it should do the
> trick for now.
>
> Fortunately all this code has been rewritten in much more sane way in
> the new_mdi cvs branch[1] that is under developement and we'll implement
> it without hackish workarounds.
>
> Lemme know if it works
>
> ciao
> 	Paolo
>
>
> [1]: you can read about it here: http://live.gnome.org/Gedit_2fNewMdi
Hi all,

That did it.  Appears to be working great.  Many many thanks!

Best Regards,

Jerry