2009/9/8 francisco treacy francisco.treacy@gmail.com:

Hi all,

I discovered Geany not long time ago and I love the balance of features/power (without getting bloated).

Now as I am coding in Scala, I would like to add support for this language.

Unfortunately I have no idea about Scintilla/Scite (which I read you supported for syntax) and my C is way too rusty.

Unfortunately you will need to write a little C to add a filetype, but most should be able to be copied from other filetypes. The HACKING file in the source (or on the Geany web site) has instructions on adding a filetype. Since you are re-using the C++ lexer it shouldn't be too much effort.

But I found a

properties file for Scite in the Scala repository: http://lampsvn.epfl.ch/svn-repos/scala/scala-tool-support/trunk/src/scite/sc...

Geany has its own properties files which contain similar information but in a different format and you should be able to translate from this file. See the manual and the HACKING file.

(From what I got on the mailing list, this is based on the Scintilla C++ lexer).

So... is anybody else interested in getting Scala syntax to work? (and possibly code completion and other goodies... but there I'm going faster than the music). Could you please point me to some straightforward steps to integrate support into Geany?

The HACKING file and the manual are the main documentation, as I siad above (and as the docs say) copy code from another filetype, probably C++ since you are going to re-use its lexer.

Cheers Lex

If you need examples of the Scala language, here there are plenty: http://lampsvn.epfl.ch/svn-repos/scala/scala/trunk/src/library/scala/

Thanks!

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