Re: [gedit-list] Proposed enhancement

[Brandon Thomas <bthomas21 zoominternet net>]

Thank you for this.  It was a big help.  For the time being I'm going to
use it with a slight tweak (added a ~ to the end of the filename so its
hidden). 
I think I am still going to write my plugin though for my suggestion.  
My next question: Is there any way to open 2 documents side by side for
analysis?  Kind of like a diff between the two?
Brandon
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 13:24 -0700, Doug McNutt wrote:
> 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.