On 23 August 2012 05:49, Mike Miller geany-users@mgmiller.net wrote:

Hi,

I'm editing a lot of yaml lately for host deployments and finding geany's support a bit lacking, even if my gripes are minor.

The first issue is that inline comments are highlighted as a string and not comments, e.g.:

section:
    - foo  # very important option

The whole second line is string color. Second, the dash is not recognized as an operator like the colon.

I'm expecting the - to be colored as an operator, "foo" to be colored as a string, and everything after # to be colored as a comment. Notepad++ does the same, so I wonder if I am doing anything wrong? The yaml parser I'm using understands the syntax above, so why not the highlighter?

Because the highlighting isn't done by the yaml parser you are using.

The highlighting is done by the Scintilla editing component (www.scintilla.org) that both Geany and Notepad++ use.

You need to file the problem there.

Cheers Lex

Instead I'm putting comments on their own lines, but it isn't as intuitive an example for the recipient for specific comments. And I'd like the dash to be a different color as it seems to be part of the string.

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