On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:03:41 +1000, Lex wrote: >2009/8/19 Enrico Tröger <[email protected]>: >> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:37:43 +1000, Lex wrote: >> >>>Hi Lee, >>> >>>2009/8/18 Lee Gold <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> I tried changing colors in files.common. Changing just color does >>>> not solve the problem because the symbols are very tiny pin pricks. >>>> Changing them to black or red does not help. Changing background >>>> color from white totally disrupts the "look". >>> >>>Unfortunately AFAICT the visible whitespace display is hard coded in >>>Scintilla, the editing component used by Geany >>>(http://www.scintilla.org). Geany can only turn it on/off. >>>The best that can be done is to fiddle with the settings to minimise >>>the disruption whilst maximising visibility. >> >> Another, in the long term more promising thing to be done is to >> request this feature enhancement to the Scintilla project, once it >> is available there, it will also be available in Geany (ok, maybe >> with some little delay :D). >> I don't know whether it's a coincidence or whether it was one >> of you but today exactly this request was made: >> >> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=352439&aid=2839427&group_id=2439 > >I had a look at what was proposed above, it is probably the right way >to do it. > >So I did it the wrong way ;-) > >To Neils eternal shame :-), the size of the dot is manifest constants >in the code, the patch changes it to the symbol >SCI_VISIBLE_WHITESPACE_SIZE with a default of one. > >To change it "make CXXFLAGS=-DSCI_VISIBLE_WHITESPACE_SIZE=2" or >whatever size or configure it or however waf does these things. > >Patch is against scintilla in Geany.
Nice! I changed the value to 3 for testing and it gets pretty visible then however I personally was also happy with the default but I see that it might be too small/bright in some setups. About the code: I'd like to see this code to be discussed with Neil, ideally in the already existing feature request in the tracker. I think he would accept it and so we don't need to patch our Scintilla copy again. Ideally, the value could be changed with a message and not only by changing constants in the source code, I guess users would appreciate that. I guess best would be to ask Neil before doing any of such work. Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc
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