On 5/25/07, Derrick Devine ddevine@rpath.com wrote:
Something that I use Geany for besides python is editing wiki pages. It would be nice if someone could point me toward how to start syntax highlighting for wiki syntax (for example, Kate in KDE does this for wikipedia via xml file). I'd love to contribute this...can anyone wind me up and point me in the right direction?
Hi Derrick,
Geany uses the Scintilla editing component, and as such, if you want syntax highlighting for a new language or format, someone needs to write a Scintilla lexer for it.
Since wiki syntax is generally easy to read without syntax highlighting, and since it's a bit of a pain to write your own lexer, you don't see much support for that sort of thing in Scintilla.
That said, you can always take a look in your ``.../geany/scintilla`` directory at one or more of the Lex*.cxx files to see what a new lexer entails. LexConf.cxx and LexCrontab.cxx might be good places to start, as well as reading http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/Lexer.txt .
---John