Re: [gedit-list] Proposed enhancement

[Doug McNutt <douglist macnauchtan com>]

At 12:15 -0500 2/5/09, Brandon Thomas wrote:
> I'm looking for a way that gedit can save its backups as a revision 
> history instead of just ~.  Currently I've modified my gnome session 
> to run a bash script which performs the following:

> gconftool-2 --set --type=string 
> /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/save/backup_copy_extension .`date 
> "+%Y%m%d"`~

<ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/gedit/Archive>

is a perl script configured as a gedit tool that might help. I have 
been using it for a while and I took some time to document it after 
the __END__ line in the source text.

The result is a time-stamped copy of the current document. I have 
been thinking about a scheme using the diff tool to create patch 
files that represent differences between current and next-recent 
archive files.

The gedit enhancement that would make it work better is a couple of 
additional ${GEDIT_...} environment variables that might be passed to 
tools. In particular a dirty flag to indicate if the current document 
has been changed and not yet saved. A way for a tool to remember 
something small like a string in gedit's environment variable space 
so it would be delivered when the tool is next called would do the 
trick.
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