On 16 November 2010 13:35, L.Bryce Whitson Jr. lwhitson2@gmail.com wrote:
All,
I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Bryce Whitson and I am a PhD Student at Purdue University. My studies are based around the use of Numerical Analysis of High-Speed Reacting Flows (Computational Fluid Dynamics).
Welcome.
As a general rule, we use Fortran for all of our coding needs, so I know my way around a Fortran code. This is actually what brings me to this list. We have recently begun utilizing the CUDA Fortran compiler by PGI and I would like to extend Geany's capabilities to include the CUDA Fortran language by default. I would have put in a feature request for this, but I figure there are not enough people out there coding in CUDA Fortran for it to become a priority.
With that being said, I am completely new to the C/C++ coding world, so this will be a learning experience in more than one way for me. Assuming I am able to integrate the CUDA Fortran filetype into Geany, I would then like to move on to the CUDA C programming language as well.
This is my first foray into coding for the open source world; I guess you could call me a noob, haha. So, anyone have any advice on how to get started?
First question, how differernt is CUDA Fortran to normal fortran?
If it has perhaps a couple of extra keywords and some libraries you might get away with configuring a custom filetype and tags files based on the current Fortran tag parser and highlighter. This needs no coding, just editing configuration files. Note custom filetypes are distinguished from the built-in filetypes by the extension of source files, so that is required to be different, or you lose the use of the standard filetype, which may be ok for your own use but may not be ok for distribution.
If differences are more complex then you need a new built-in filetype with new tag parser and lexer, and then you can distinguish filetypes by content as well as extension.
Read the manual on custom filetypes first and see how you go. If you decide you need to jump in deeper read the Hacking file and ask here, but don't assume that anyone knows whats special about your language or extension so don't use terms specific to it or explain them.
Oh and have fun :-)
Cheers Lex
Thanks,
L.Bryce Whitson Jr. LWhitson2@gmail.com
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