On 23 February 2010 00:57, Jon Senior
<jon@restlesslemon.co.uk> wrote:
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:25:49 +0000
> I've been investigating filetypes.r to see if it is possible to make
> Geany more friendly (when <ctrl>+right/left, selecting, double-click
> selecting, etc.) toward strings containing "." (dot), and I noticed
> this line:
> #wordchars=_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789
>
> Changing it to
> wordchars=._abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789
>
> doesn't seem to make a difference, although the documentation
> specifies that "wordchars
> These characters define word boundaries when making selections and
> searching using word matching options."
>
> Any ideas on what's going wrong?
I might be wrong, but I think that some of the stuff in the
filetypes.foo files has now been taken over by Scintilla. Certainly,
Scintilla seems to be responsible for comments and I'd suspect that you
can change the comment start parameter to whatever you like with no ill
effects!
It has no effect because the Scintilla R parser ignores the wordchars argument and instead uses its own hard coded definition (which has a bug). Which parts of the filetype definition files are actually used is dependent on the parser for the particular language. Unfortunately I know of no documentation in the Scintilla project (other than the code:-) that defines what capabilities each parser has and what parameters are used.
Cheers
Lex
Jon