Dear All, I have just seen the latest Geany, having last seen it about a year ago, and am interested in possibly using it as a standard editior/ide on a bootable cd/dvd system we are developing for students. The ideal is to have a simple GUI which they only have to learn once but can cope with the multiple languages they encounter. Currently we use Emacs + others, but would like a more IDE looking GUI. Geany looks as though it has the workings but I have been trying to add other languages/templates etc. Do I understand that this is impossible by just adding them to the .conf, and adding filetypes.XXX files, e.g. they are not automatically picked up? or am I missing something?
Many Thanks for any help, the package looks really nice
regards
Peter
On 31 Jan 2007 17:18:52 +0000, "P.J.G. Long" pjgl2@cam.ac.uk wrote:
Hi,
I have just seen the latest Geany, having last seen it about ayear ago, and am interested in possibly using it as a standard editior/ide on a bootable cd/dvd system we are developing for students. The ideal is to have a simple GUI which they only have to learn once but can cope with the multiple languages they encounter. Currently we use Emacs + others, but would like a more IDE looking GUI. Geany looks as though it has the workings but I have been trying to add other languages/templates etc. Do I understand that this is impossible by just adding them to the .conf, and adding filetypes.XXX files, e.g. they are not automatically picked up? or am I missing
Adding new filetypes is not that easy at the moment. You have to edit src/filetypes.c and src/highlighting.c to really add new filetypes. Furthermore, to get syntax highlighting there must exist a Scintilla lexer for the filetype and it has to be included in Geany's copy of Scintilla found in scintilla/.
Regards, Enrico
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