--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Nick Treleaven <nick.trelea...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> From: Nick Treleaven <nick.trelea...@btinternet.com> > Subject: Re: [Geany-devel] Race condition when saving geany.conf > To: geany-devel@uvena.de > Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 3:39 PM > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:02:55 +1100 > Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > The overall issue of preferences, configuration and > sessions for multiple > > instances is an interesting one (Sorry Eugene, I've > got no answers but lots > > of questions) > > > > Why is the first necessarily the "master"? > > Is this by definition or is there a reason? > > What if the first is started with -i? > > And what happens to configuration changes I make > in other instances? > > > > You see, I'm forgetful, if I had more than one Geany > running (and I can see > > good reasons to do that) then I may forget which one > is the "master" and > > change a preference in a different instance, so what > happens to the conf > > file? > > At first Geany couldn't be run with multiple instances due > to the > socket code. I changed this but did nothing to avoid > overwrite problems. > > As Geany is written without the ability to share settings, > and in > some cases not able to update a setting at runtime, I think > it > would be too much work making Geany truly multi-instance > like Firefox. > I agree, it's a lot of work. Those who need to run multiple instances should consider using -c/--config option. _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel