Hi Harold,
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I understand the reason, but what I don't understand is how to "port" my old theme settings to the new system.
Copying filetypes.php to ~/.config/geany/filedefs and editing [styling] does not work and I can't seem to find any documentation on how to fix this. 'geany-dark-scheme' seems to be abandoned as the last release was in March 2010...
Any pointers on how I can re-enable my scheme for .php files?
Sorry I'm not a theme expert, maybe one of the experts can advise.
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Tag generation is the only reason I (have to) use a project plugin.
Sounds like a rock and a hard place :)
Possibly the plugins or tags system itself could use some sort of cache so unchanged files didn't need re-parsing, just loading. That would "probably" be easier than trying to run tags in separate threads and so on, after all you still wouldn't have full functionality for 8 minutes until the tags are generated (probably longer due to the inevitable threading overheads).
Cheers Lex