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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