On 20 October 2013 00:46, Dennis Drescher <dennis@dreschers.info> wrote:

Hi,

I am new to the Geany IDE but I am really liking it. I am using it in Ubuntu. One particular application I want to adapt if for requires color highlighting. I am tying to work through the user manual ( http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#lexer-filetype) but admittedly, it is a steep learning curve for me. I have created color highlighting/syntax for this same application in Gedit but their system is totally different. I think Geany will be a much better environment if I can get color highlighting working.

You need to read the section on making custom filetypes.

I created a custom filetypes file (a copy of the filetypes.latex) and put it in the .config/geany/filedefs folder. I added the type to the filedefs_extensions.conf and I am trying to edit the filetypes.usfm to get the color highlighting to start working. To start, I have edited these two sections:

[keywords]
# all items must be in one line
primary=\id \h \toc1 \mt1

If you use the latex lexer you don't need to put the backslashes.

[settings]
# default extension used when saving files
extension=usfm

You need to specify a lexer_filetype=latex setting so Geany knows how to identify parts of your file to highlight (assuming you copied filetypes.latex because latex is similar).

Regards

Lex

This is a sample of data I am testing with:

\id cid
\h heading
\toc1 Table of Contents
\mt1 Main Title

So far I have not had any success getting any markers to "light up". Any suggestions on what I should do next. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give.

Kind regards,

Dennis

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