On 07/04/2022 10:23 AM, Little Girl wrote: > Hey there, > > H wrote: > >> I am running Geany 1.36 under CentOS 7 and just experienced a crash >> of the desktop which resulted in an empty file list when I reloaded >> Geany... >> >> I'd like to avoid this in the future and was thinking that I might >> be able to group various related files into Geany Projects which I >> can then open/close as needed, and, importantly, were the editor to >> crash, I could then simply reload the project. > I've got a couple of ways to do this depending on whether the files I > want to open as a project are in the same directory or not. I'll > include both below even though you're working with files that are in > various locations. You may have them all together in the future, so > the other method may someday come in handy. > > Method 1: > If all of your project files are scattered in various locations, you > can give Geany a list of files, including their paths, as options on > the command line. For example, this will open (or create and open) > your files in Geany: > > geany "~/Desktop/foo.txt" "~/Documents/bar.txt" "~/Development/baz.txt" > > Note that you can type the command each time or copy it into your > .bashrc file as an alias or into a shortcut or into a script. > > Method 2: > If all of your project files are in the same directory, you can > create an empty Geany project file (a file ending in the .geany > extension) in that directory and give Geany a list of files as > options on the command line using the Geany project file as the > command's *first* option. For example, this will open (or create and > open) your files in Geany and write some information about them into > the Geany project file: > > geany "foo.geany" "bar.txt" "baz.txt" "bat.txt" > > From then on, when you want to open those files again, you can either > double-click the Geany project file or use the Geany project file as > an option for Geany on the command line. For example, this will open > your files in Geany: > > geany "foo.geany" > > Note that you can see the data in Geany project files by opening them > in another text editor or printing their contents into a terminal > window. > Thank you, I am considering rethinking how I organize my different types of "projects" to fit into the second paradigm, see reply to Lex.
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