Since the 3 commits on June 2016, the Tasks functionality has stopped working on non-C files (i.e. .c and .h work fine, filling up the tasks) like .vhd The 3 commits in June reworked the task-keywords detection loop and limited it to search only within comments. Now it doesn't find tasks in .vhd files, even if the "TODO" keyword is within a .vhd comment, which is otherwise visually styled in the editor as defined in filetypes.vhdl, so that geany does indeed detect VHDL comments fine.