Hi folks, I'm trying to accomplish to have a particular highlight for a basic compiler. I could accomplish such option for Kate an Notepad++ (partially). I set geany up for Archlinux in Xfce4 desktop environment.
I've, then copied the freebasic and I tried to change the keyword list, for the four available items. Since I discovered that Scintilla lexer has only "Keywords", "Preprocessor", "User1" and "User2" items. Despite that the compiler has some more items (they are seven), but I will merge some of the extra items to the four ones.
So I copied the /usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.freebasic in ~/.config/geany/filedefs/ with the new name. Then I substitute the freebasic keywords for keywords items, I dded lexer_filetype=FreeBasic. Added also the name in the filetype_extensions.conf, without ommenting.
I realised to make the new highlighter appear on the selection menu, but my source code doesn't show any keyword highlighted, just only the numbers and the single-line comments are visible. I was trying to set the position near to the freebasic, as filetype selection menu, but I could only obtain to show on top of the menu.
I noted that the lines for the keywords exceed the 5760 columns for the line. So it seems that the keywords setting is not applied.
Fulvio