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.

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

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

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