I just noticed the size of the parser - 25klocs and 1MB of sources. Have you checked how much the size of stripped libgeany.so increases by this patch?

Yes, the generated code is humongous. I guess it is price for implementing full Kotlin grammar. I have tried to check the library size with make && strip --strip-unneeded. Current master is about 3.57 MB, this branch yields 3.72 MB, so roughly 150kB. I agree it is quite a lot, but still manageable I hope.

Of more interest is how fast (slow) is it, remembering it runs while editing, will Kotlists get big pauses?

Frankly, the speed could be better. This has already have been discussed when I was adding the parser to ctags and it even resulted in some improvements in PackCC (which is used to generate the code), but it is still slower than handwritten parsers. You can have a look at universal-ctags/ctags#2866 and universal-ctags/ctags#2878 if you're interested.

Anyway, the pauses during editing are not noticeable for reasonably sized files. The only situation where the speed might be annoying is when user opens big kotlin project. But I'm not sure how this actually works, does Geany always process all open files on start? Or is there some kind of caching? I think some of the projects-related plugin even allowed to set option to index all files, even those that are not open. This could then take quite some time.

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