That's a really rude response...

This doesn't seem all that unreasonable. The Tree Browser already has
"Create new file", "Delete" and "Rename". So you can open a file, copy the
contents, create a new file, and paste the contents. Why is having a single
content menu shortcut for that so terrible?

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 9 May 2017 at 01:34, Chris Spencer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is there a plugin that allows the one of the sidebar tabs to support
> copying
> > and pasting files? Neither the "project" nor "tree browser" nor "files"
> nor
> > "documents" tabs seem to have this ability.
>
> No.  Its called the file manager, and comes with your operating system.
>
> [Disclaimer: its one of my pet peeves that people expect us to waste
> time duplicating system functions, others disagree, YMMV]
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> PS Such file management operations made sense as part of refactoring
> functions in tightly integrated IDEs like Eclipse which managed the
> build.  But Geany is a lightweight IDE and is not integrated to that
> extent.
>
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