Sorry for the late reply. Debug info below.

I am trying to use the tags in txt.txt.tags to show up in n1.txt - which is recognized as txt file but as txt [UTF-8]. I don't know whether that is the problem.

07:19:16: GLib-GIO DEBUG : _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation gvfs (GDaemonVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Geany 1.37.1, en_US.UTF-8
07:19:16: Geany INFO : GTK 3.24.30, GLib 2.70.0
07:19:16: Geany INFO : OS: Manjaro Linux
07:19:16: Geany INFO : System data dir: /usr/share/geany
07:19:16: Geany INFO : User config dir: /home/xxxx/.config/geany
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Loaded GTK+ CSS theme '/usr/share/geany/geany.css'
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Loaded GTK+ CSS theme '/usr/share/geany/geany-3.20.css'
07:19:16: Geany INFO : System plugin path: /usr/lib/geany
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype JSON (63).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Graphviz (64).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Nim (65).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Swift (66).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Clojure (67).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Groovy (68).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype CUDA (69).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Kotlin (70).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Cython (71).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype TypeScript (72).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Genie (73).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Scala (74).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype Arduino (75).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype stf (76).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Added filetype txt (77).
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Loaded libvte from libvte-2.91.so
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Unknown filetype for file '/home/xxxx/.config/geany/tags/stf.stf.tags'.
07:19:16: Geany INFO : Unknown filetype for file '/home/xxxx/.config/geany/tags/txt.txt.tags'.
07:19:16: Geany INFO : /home/xxxx/Documents/n1.txt : txt (UTF-8)
15:41:24: GLib-GIO DEBUG : _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation dconf (DConfSettingsBackend) for ‘gsettings-backend’

Thanks

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 6:32 AM Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger@uvena.de> wrote:
There must be something else wrong.

If I use the tags file and the custom filetype you provided here, I can
successfully load the tags:
13:29:31.561147: Geany INFO             : Loaded /tmp/test.txt.tags (txt), 2 symbol(s).

Maybe the whole output of Help->Debug Messages could give a hint.

Regards,
Enrico


On 14.10.21 22:48, Rue Sixteen wrote:
> That is interesting.
>
> Below is $USER/.config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.txt.conf
> # For complete documentation of this file, please see Geany's main
> documentation
> [styling]
> # Edit these in the colorscheme .conf file instead
> default=default
> comment=comment
> tag=tag
> class=class
> pseudoclass=string_1
> unknown_pseudoclass=default
> unknown_identifier=default
> operator=operator
> identifier=keyword_2
> doublestring=string_1
> singlestring=string_2
> attribute=attribute
> value=value
> id=class
> identifier2=keyword_2
> variable=identifier_1
> important=error
> directive=preprocessor
> identifier3=keyword_1
> pseudoelement=string_2
> extended_identifier=keyword_1
> extended_pseudoclass=string_1
> extended_pseudoelement=string_2
> media=parameter
>
> [keywords]
>
> [settings]
> # default extension used when saving files
> extension=txt
> tag_parser=COBOL
> # MIME type
> mime_type=text/plain
>
>
> [indentation]
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 3:31 PM Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger@uvena.de
> <mailto:enrico.troeger@uvena.de>> wrote:
>
>
>     I've created a custom filetype named "txt" and saved your posted tags
>     file and then I could load it successfully.
>
>     So, I assume there is something wrong with your configuration.
>     Could you post your filetype configuration for "txt"?
>
>     Regards,
>     Enrico
>
>
>     On 14.10.21 22:09, Rue Sixteen wrote:
>      > Hi Enrico
>      >
>      > I do. When I go to the tab I was hoping to get the tags to
>     autocomplete,
>      > Document > Set FileType shows txt checked.
>      >
>      > Thanks
>      >
>      > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 3:02 PM Enrico Tröger
>     <enrico.troeger@uvena.de <mailto:enrico.troeger@uvena.de>
>      > <mailto:enrico.troeger@uvena.de
>     <mailto:enrico.troeger@uvena.de>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     Hi Rue,
>      >
>      >      > I recently had to reinstall after an SSD death. However
>     geany is not
>      >      > accepting my tag files. These are the same ones I used for
>     a long
>      >     time
>      >      > before. They are in pipe format. I tried loading them from
>     Tools
>      >      > Load
>      >      > Tags.
>      >      > In the status bar below, it says "Could not load tags file
>      >     .....". In
>      >      > the debug message it says "Unknown filetype for file ..."
>      >      >
>      >      > I created a simple file and called it simple.txt.tags and
>     it has the
>      >
>      >     do you have any filetype configured with the extensions ".txt"?
>      >     The filename part before ".tags", in your case "txt" need to
>     match a
>      >     known filetype for Geany. This filetype is used to load the
>     tags for as
>      >     tags are always bound to filetypes.
>      >
>      >
>      >     Regards,
>      >     Enrico
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