On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:33:07 +1100 Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think much is needed: > > 1. Scintilla already provides the special symbol SC_MARK_AVAILABLE to > indicate that the mark is available. I already replied to this [1]. Unless we want each plugin to allocate it's markers for each document, possibly receiving different numbers, we should have a bitmap in Geany. > 3. When a plugin needs a marker for a document it should search for > one that is available on that document and use that, and set it back > to available when it no longer needs it and on unload. There are only > 32 to search so it isn't IMHO worth implementing anything faster. Oh, I see. So any plugin with markers must keep track of each document it allocated markers in. This is not going to be fun. > why should > a C language plugin steal markers froma Python file when the Python > plugin also needs them?? To be able to allocate markers #s in plugin_init(), and free them in plugin_cleanup(). To be able to work without tracking document file type changes. [1] http://lists.uvena.de/pipermail/geany-devel/2012-February/006629.html -- E-gards: Jimmy _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel