Some time ago i was playing with a Raspberry Pi and wanted to write some code in there. The Gtk3-powered Geany was WAY too slow (like, type and wait for the letter to appear slow). I recompiled it to use Gtk2, it was much faster but also it was buggy (the code display was getting messed up).
Nedit (based on Motif) on the other hand was both very fast (faster than the Gtk2 Geany) and bug-free - it worked perfectly. But i wanted Geany because of the file browser sidebar.
So i wrote a small Tcl/Tk script to display a list of files using a filter in a directory and call Nedit to edit them when you doubleclicked. Also added a few buttons to call make, make clean, open a terminal, make a new file, etc and worked perfectly.
A few years since then i made a few improvements and modifications to this script and use it on my main PC whenever i want to work on C source code - though i use Krita instead of Nedit here (Krita has its own file browser sidebar but i find the way it works annoying - and doesn't have all the extra stuff i've added over time to the script).
The neat bit is that it reads a Tcl file from the home directory for "global" configuration (e.g. which editor to use, how to run terminal commands, etc) and then a Tcl file from the current directory for project-specific stuff, all of which having access to the main script's own procs for things like calling terminal commands, showing a few dialogs, etc.
I've uploaded the latest version of the script to my website a few days ago[0]. I've been mainly using it with Linux but a couple of years ago i also used it a bit with Windows using MSYS2 (with Notepad++ for the editor) and worked fine.
Nedit (based on Motif) on the other hand was both very fast (faster than the Gtk2 Geany) and bug-free - it worked perfectly. But i wanted Geany because of the file browser sidebar.
So i wrote a small Tcl/Tk script to display a list of files using a filter in a directory and call Nedit to edit them when you doubleclicked. Also added a few buttons to call make, make clean, open a terminal, make a new file, etc and worked perfectly.
A few years since then i made a few improvements and modifications to this script and use it on my main PC whenever i want to work on C source code - though i use Krita instead of Nedit here (Krita has its own file browser sidebar but i find the way it works annoying - and doesn't have all the extra stuff i've added over time to the script).
The neat bit is that it reads a Tcl file from the home directory for "global" configuration (e.g. which editor to use, how to run terminal commands, etc) and then a Tcl file from the current directory for project-specific stuff, all of which having access to the main script's own procs for things like calling terminal commands, showing a few dialogs, etc.
I've uploaded the latest version of the script to my website a few days ago[0]. I've been mainly using it with Linux but a couple of years ago i also used it a bit with Windows using MSYS2 (with Notepad++ for the editor) and worked fine.
There is a screenshot on the site.
[0] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/projfiles/