[Geany-Users] Tag file loading fails

Wed Oct 20 21:48:47 UTC 2021

Ok, I think you are just missing an item for your custom filetypes in 
~/.config/geany/filetype_extensions.conf like:

txt=*.txt;

in the [Extensions] section.
Geany uses this mapping to associate tags files based on their extension 
to the configured filetypes.

Regards,
Enrico

On 19.10.21 22:45, Rue Sixteen wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply. Debug info below.
> 
> I am trying to use the tags in txt.txt.tags to show up in n1.txt - which 
> is recognized as txt file but as txt [UTF-8]. I don't know whether that 
> is the problem.
> 
> 07:19:16: GLib-GIO DEBUG : _g_io_module_get_default: Found default 
> implementation gvfs (GDaemonVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Geany 1.37.1, en_US.UTF-8
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : GTK 3.24.30, GLib 2.70.0
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : OS: Manjaro Linux
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : System data dir: /usr/share/geany
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : User config dir: /home/xxxx/.config/geany
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Loaded GTK+ CSS theme '/usr/share/geany/geany.css'
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Loaded GTK+ CSS theme 
> '/usr/share/geany/geany-3.20.css'
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : System plugin path: /usr/lib/geany
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype JSON (63).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Graphviz (64).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Nim (65).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Swift (66).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Clojure (67).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Groovy (68).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype CUDA (69).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Kotlin (70).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Cython (71).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype TypeScript (72).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Genie (73).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Scala (74).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Arduino (75).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype stf (76).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype txt (77).
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Loaded libvte from libvte-2.91.so 
> <http://libvte-2.91.so>
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Unknown filetype for file 
> '/home/xxxx/.config/geany/tags/stf.stf.tags'.
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : Unknown filetype for file 
> '/home/xxxx/.config/geany/tags/txt.txt.tags'.
> 07:19:16: Geany INFO : /home/xxxx/Documents/n1.txt : txt (UTF-8)
> 15:41:24: GLib-GIO DEBUG : _g_io_module_get_default: Found default 
> implementation dconf (DConfSettingsBackend) for ‘gsettings-backend’
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 6:32 AM Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de 
> <mailto:enrico.troeger at uvena.de>> wrote:
> 
>     There must be something else wrong.
> 
>     If I use the tags file and the custom filetype you provided here, I can
>     successfully load the tags:
>     13:29:31.561147: Geany INFO             : Loaded /tmp/test.txt.tags
>     (txt), 2 symbol(s).
> 
>     Maybe the whole output of Help->Debug Messages could give a hint.
> 
>     Regards,
>     Enrico
> 
> 
>     On 14.10.21 22:48, Rue Sixteen wrote:
>      > That is interesting.
>      >
>      > Below is $USER/.config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.txt.conf
>      > # For complete documentation of this file, please see Geany's main
>      > documentation
>      > [styling]
>      > # Edit these in the colorscheme .conf file instead
>      > default=default
>      > comment=comment
>      > tag=tag
>      > class=class
>      > pseudoclass=string_1
>      > unknown_pseudoclass=default
>      > unknown_identifier=default
>      > operator=operator
>      > identifier=keyword_2
>      > doublestring=string_1
>      > singlestring=string_2
>      > attribute=attribute
>      > value=value
>      > id=class
>      > identifier2=keyword_2
>      > variable=identifier_1
>      > important=error
>      > directive=preprocessor
>      > identifier3=keyword_1
>      > pseudoelement=string_2
>      > extended_identifier=keyword_1
>      > extended_pseudoclass=string_1
>      > extended_pseudoelement=string_2
>      > media=parameter
>      >
>      > [keywords]
>      >
>      > [settings]
>      > # default extension used when saving files
>      > extension=txt
>      > tag_parser=COBOL
>      > # MIME type
>      > mime_type=text/plain
>      >
>      >
>      > [indentation]
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > Thanks
>      >
>      >
>      > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 3:31 PM Enrico Tröger
>     <enrico.troeger at uvena.de <mailto:enrico.troeger at uvena.de>
>      > <mailto:enrico.troeger at uvena.de
>     <mailto:enrico.troeger at uvena.de>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      >     I've created a custom filetype named "txt" and saved your
>     posted tags
>      >     file and then I could load it successfully.
>      >
>      >     So, I assume there is something wrong with your configuration.
>      >     Could you post your filetype configuration for "txt"?
>      >
>      >     Regards,
>      >     Enrico
>      >
>      >
>      >     On 14.10.21 22:09, Rue Sixteen wrote:
>      >      > Hi Enrico
>      >      >
>      >      > I do. When I go to the tab I was hoping to get the tags to
>      >     autocomplete,
>      >      > Document > Set FileType shows txt checked.
>      >      >
>      >      > Thanks
>      >      >
>      >      > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 3:02 PM Enrico Tröger
>      >     <enrico.troeger at uvena.de <mailto:enrico.troeger at uvena.de>
>     <mailto:enrico.troeger at uvena.de <mailto:enrico.troeger at uvena.de>>
>      >      > <mailto:enrico.troeger at uvena.de
>     <mailto:enrico.troeger at uvena.de>
>      >     <mailto:enrico.troeger at uvena.de
>     <mailto:enrico.troeger at uvena.de>>>> wrote:
>      >      >
>      >      >     Hi Rue,
>      >      >
>      >      >      > I recently had to reinstall after an SSD death. However
>      >     geany is not
>      >      >      > accepting my tag files. These are the same ones I
>     used for
>      >     a long
>      >      >     time
>      >      >      > before. They are in pipe format. I tried loading
>     them from
>      >     Tools
>      >      >      > Load
>      >      >      > Tags.
>      >      >      > In the status bar below, it says "Could not load
>     tags file
>      >      >     .....". In
>      >      >      > the debug message it says "Unknown filetype for
>     file ..."
>      >      >      >
>      >      >      > I created a simple file and called it
>     simple.txt.tags and
>      >     it has the
>      >      >
>      >      >     do you have any filetype configured with the
>     extensions ".txt"?
>      >      >     The filename part before ".tags", in your case "txt"
>     need to
>      >     match a
>      >      >     known filetype for Geany. This filetype is used to
>     load the
>      >     tags for as
>      >      >     tags are always bound to filetypes.
>      >      >
>      >      >
>      >      >     Regards,
>      >      >     Enrico
>      >      >
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