Amazing. Thanks for such a quick response. I put tag_parser=COBOL and restarted Geany. Now it works. Now I need to go and expand the tag file with all the words I wanted :-)
I haven't seen a simpleton tutorial anywhere where this is detailed as a step by step. May be I will write one and post it somewhere.
Thanks again for rapid response and help.
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Colomban Wendling < lists.ban@herbesfolles.org> wrote:
Hi,
Le 23/08/2016 à 22:33, Rue Sixteen a écrit :
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As can be seen filetype txt is accepted, txt.txt.tags is loaded. However it seems to be loaded for file type (txt) where as my text files come up as txt (UTF-8).
That's alright, the filetype is still "txt", the part "(UTF-8)" is the character encoding used to load the file.
Needless to say my tags from autocompletion don't show up. However when I tried to set the file type to php manually and saved the tag file as php.php.tags it worked. The same with setting manual type of "txt" and loading txt.txt.tags does not work!
Interesting. You're hitting a subtle limitation that we should probably handle better: we cannot use tags if they are not associated with a tag parser (which is different from a filetype).
To work around this, you can set the `tag_parser` key in the `[settings]` section of your custom filetype to the name of another filetype that already has a tag parser. This way, your tags will have a proper "language" set on them and will be usable. I suggest to use a tag parser that you don't otherwise use and doesn't have other tags yet, so you won't get unexpected completions. I can suggest Ferite, Tcl, COBOL, etc. -- anything you don't use and that have a tag parser.
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