Thanks for the info Matthew ... good to know. Are the necessary changes something that a relatively new c programmer could get a hold on and contribute to? I am going to be learning objective-c in the forseeable future so I'm inclined to try and grok more about C and Geany would be a fun project to do that on... if it's possible to help Geany be better on osx that would be totally cool. Maybe I will try and set up the dev environment up on my osx machine and see how I do.
ps that footnote was epic ... I nearly clicked on the [1], haha. On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Matthew Brush <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12-07-13 04:18 PM, Sean Felipe Wolfe wrote: >> >> Hey everybody, >> >> I started playing around with geany for osx via macports, thanks to >> this article: >> http://wiki.geany.org/howtos/osx/running >> >> everything was going great until I realized that I couldn't paste >> anything. :P I'm able to copy and paste to an external text file. But >> copying + pasting internally doesn't paste anything. I've tried both >> keyboard shortcut and pull-down menu option. >> >> This is 0.21 (newest version on macports I believe) with OSX Lion >> (which sucks) 10.7.4 . >> >> Any help would be appreciated :) Thanks! >> > > Hi, > > Geany sucks on OSX[1]. > > I've done some work locally on improving it but it requires a lot of changes > to Geany's code, build system and also some extra GTK+-related dependencies. > I'm not confident enough that after spending so much time on making it > usable that all of the (many) changes will be accepted into the core of > Geany, so I've kind of put it on hold for now. > > IIRC, I got to the point of having application menu integration, keybindings > working, theme/font integration, plugins working, VTE loading (but not > working), and a Geany.app bundle for easy installing and dock icon. The main > thing that made me give up was that there's a crasher bug deep inside the > Cairo/Quartz code used by Scintilla and I'm not inclined to fix it. > > SublimeText2 is pretty nice and not super expensive (has a free demo) if > you're looking for a fairly sane alternative to Geany. > > Cheers, > Matthew Brush > > [1] To be fair to Geany, GTK+ also sucks on OSX which accounts for most of > Geany's suckiness there. > _______________________________________________ > Geany mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany -- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. - Abraham Maslow _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
