[Geany-Devel] New Lexer

[Lex Trotman]

On 2 January 2016 at 09:02,  <rhkramer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, January 01, 2016 02:15:56 PM Colomban Wendling wrote:
>> Yes, only the used lexers are imported from Scintilla.  To add a new
>> one, just copy if from Scintilla's one, list it in src/Catalogue.cxx [1]
>> and in the build system and start using it.  It's mostly well documented
>> in the "Syntax Highlighting" section (under "Adding a filetype") of
>> HACKING in Geany's source tree.
>>
>> Feel free to ask about any further details if you're unsure about
>> something.
>
> I'm not the OP, but I am unsure about something--I guess after doing this,
> geany (with scintilla) would have to be recompiled?

Yes.

>
>
>> [1] well, actually the best way would be to edit the
>> scintilla/scintilla_changes.patch patch and run the update script, but
>> that's not yet documented and can be tricky if you're not familiar with
>> unified diff format.
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