Re: [gedit-list] Developing plugins

[Frederic Back <fredericback gmail com>]

Hello Philip,

I lately also have to read through a lot of rails code, which is why I'm
very interested in seeing new rails-related plugins being developed.

For those unfamiliar with the framework, ruby on rails is organised
according to the model/view/controller-pattern. Related source files are
to be found in different directory trees, but at more or less the same
position within the tree.
 
What I'd love to see would be a small plugin which allows you to switch
quickly between related source files. For example, you could point at an
action in a given controller, press a button and jump to the referenced
view file.

> I know there is the information at the botton of the plugins page, but
> I have looked at it and it did not make much sense to me.

The best way to start is to download a simple plugin written in python
and to modify the source files. For example, you could have a look at
my old tab converter plugin, which is quite small. 

Cheers,
Fred


On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 17:15 +0200, Philip MacIver wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With all the developments from gEdit and all the plugins available for
> it I have decided to make the switch from jEdit to gEdit for use while
> I a developing, seeing as I won't have the java overhead any longer.
> Saying that, I do think that jEdit is an excellent developer's editor
> and using gEdit leaves me missing some functionality, such as
> 
> recent buffer list switcher
> project management 
> ruby on rails searchable documentation
> Ruby parser
> hypersearch functionality
> permanent incremental search bar
> 
> and a few others that i cannot remember off the top of my head. 
> I am more than willing to create the plugins to fill in these
> functionalities but although I am a developer, I have never used python
> before and not used C more than 10 years back when I was in college, and
> as such I am and looking for help to get started on writing plugins for
> gEdit.
> 
> The first plugin that I would like to write is the recent buffer
> switcher list as this is an invaluable feature for me, especially
> developing in ruby and rails and having to switch between many open
> files, often for very short periods of time.
> 
> I want to model this plugin on the way it behaves in jEdit. i.e.
> hitting a predefined key combination bring up the list with the most
> recently viewed buffers at the top, and repeated hits of these keys
> move through the list and when you get to the buffer you are after you
> release the keys and it switches to that buffer.
> 
> So I would appreciate anyone who has knowledge of writing plugins for
> gEdit giving me information of how to get started writing these.
> 
> I know there is the information at the botton of the plugins page, but
> I have looked at it and it did not make much sense to me.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> And I hope that you can help me contribute to this great editor.
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