On 24 July 2017 at 07:54, Ben <[email protected]> wrote: > I notice in Geany 1.27 (Mint 18.1 repo) it doesn't save search terms. > Which is fine, especially between sessions.
It saves search terms during sessions though. > > In Geany, I take it there's also no "clear recent documents?" (you can set > the # of listed recent docs in the config file). Correct > > I don't know if it's designed never to save search or "find & replace" > history, or if I edited some file and don't remember it. > There definitely aren't any menu or prefs for "don't save search history" - > or such. > > There are no settings in any Geany files to control any of this, that I see. > It's OK - I'm just surprised. Most apps save some history and you have to > find a way to delete it, if need to. There are no settings in Geany because it does not save them between sessions. > If I edited something in Geany's files to not save search history and forgot > what I did, I'd like to see if there's a way to apply it to Mint's text > editor. That would be unlikely, different editors store stuff differently. > > In Linux Mint, the default text editor is XED. I could easily change it to > another editor - even Geany, that doesn't save search history or can clear > it. > XED has no preferences to not save history; no way to clear it. > > XED's Search & "replace with" terms are stored in a binary file - "user." > The only way to delete those entries is using the tool, dconf-editor, which > isn't that convenient on a regular basis. If XED uses dconf then it isn't in any way compatible with Geany. Cheers Lex > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
