Welcome (although I am not an active developer of Geany)!
Every once in a while I try to make this pitch:
I would like to get a folder / lexer written for scintilla for a variant of the TWiki markup language. Scintilla is the editor component (iiuc) used by Geany, and is also used by several other open source editors and maybe even word processors, so something like this would be applicable to more than just Geany.
Folder / lexers for scinitilla can be written in C/C++, LUA (a language used by scintilla, or, I think there is a third way.
I would consider the C/C++ approach to be the native (most native??) approach and presumably result in the fastest lexer / folder.
My problem is (I'm old and) I just can't wrap my head around C / C++. Perhaps we could collaborate to some extent, and, maybe, in the process, I would learn enough C / C++ to carry on to completion after a reasonable start in the right direction.
If you're interested, let me know. I'm thinking of doing any collaboration off list so as not to create unwanted traffic on this list, but perhaps some would like to follow anything we do, and even offer additional help.
Thanks for reading! Randy Kramer
On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 12:42:33 PM you wrote:
Hi, I am an EE/CE engineering student with a little bit of experience in C. I want to get involved in the open source community and I have heard that Geany is a good starting point. I do not have an extensive knowledge of C, but I use C basics almost daily in MATlab, Arduino, and microprocessor applications that are translated to C. I am a very quick learner and I want to get more involved in developing/debugging the open source software that I use. I hope I can be of use to the Geany development community. Corey