SF.net SVN: geany: [403] trunk

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Sat Jun 3 21:41:20 UTC 2006


Revision: 403
Author:   ntrel
Date:     2006-06-03 14:41:15 -0700 (Sat, 03 Jun 2006)
ViewCVS:  http://svn.sourceforge.net/geany/?rev=403&view=rev

Log Message:
-----------
Some corrections to the Filetypes section

Modified Paths:
--------------
    trunk/ChangeLog
    trunk/doc/geany.docbook
Modified: trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- trunk/ChangeLog	2006-06-03 20:46:23 UTC (rev 402)
+++ trunk/ChangeLog	2006-06-03 21:41:15 UTC (rev 403)
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
  * doc/geany.docbook: More minor corrections/rewording.
                       Added Build System section.
+                      Some corrections to the Filetypes section.
 
 
 2006-06-02  Enrico Troeger  <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>

Modified: trunk/doc/geany.docbook
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc/geany.docbook	2006-06-03 20:46:23 UTC (rev 402)
+++ trunk/doc/geany.docbook	2006-06-03 21:41:15 UTC (rev 403)
@@ -961,14 +961,15 @@
 				compiler and linker settings.
 			</para>
 			<para>
-				The files can be found in <filename>$prefix/share/geany</filename> and are called
-				<filename>filetypes.$ext</filename>. Where $prefix is the path where
-				<application>&app;</application> is	installed, commonly
-				<filename>/usr/local</filename>filename>, and $ext is the name of the filetype.
-				There is for every filetype a corresponding defintion file. There is one exception:
-				<filename>filetypes.common</filename> - in this file are general settings, which
-				are specific to a certain filetype. It is not recommend to edit this files, because
-				while updating Geany the will be overridden.
+				The system-wide configuration files can be found in
+				<filename>$prefix/share/geany</filename> and are called
+				<filename>filetypes.$ext</filename>, where $prefix is the path where
+				<application>&app;</application> is	installed (commonly
+				<filename>/usr/local</filename>) and $ext is the name of the filetype.
+				For every filetype there is a corresponding definition file. There is one exception:
+				<filename>filetypes.common</filename> - this file is for general settings, which
+				are not specific to a certain filetype. It is not recommended to edit the
+				system-wide files, because they will be overridden when Geany is updated.
 			</para>
 			<para>
 				To change the settings, copy a file from <filename>$prefix/share/geany</filename>
@@ -983,19 +984,19 @@
 				 directory. Alternatively, you can create a file
 				 <filename>~/.geany/filedefs/filetypes.X</filename> and add only these settings you
 				 want to change. All missing settings will be read from the corresponding global
-				 defintion file in <filename>$prefix/share/geany</filename>.
+				 definition file in <filename>$prefix/share/geany</filename>.
 			</para>
 			<section id="filetypes_format">
 				<title>Format</title>
 				<section>
-					<title>Section [styling]</title>
+					<title>[styling] Section</title>
 					<para>
 						In this section the colours for syntax highlighting are defined.
 						The format is always:
 						<constant>key=forground_colour;background_colour;bold;italic</constant>
 					</para>
 					<para>
-						Colours have to be specified as RGB hex values introduced by 0x. For
+						Colours have to be specified as RGB hex values prefixed by 0x. For
 						example red is 0xff0000, blue is 0x0000ff. The values are case-insensitive,
 						but it is a good idea to use small letters. Bold and italic are flags and
 						should only be "true" or "false". If their value is something other than
@@ -1003,17 +1004,17 @@
 					</para>
 				</section>
 				<section>
-					<title>Section [keywords]</title>
+					<title>[keywords] Section</title>
 					<para>
 						This section contains keys for different keyword lists specific	to the
 						filetype. Some filetypes do not support keywords, so adding a new key will
-						not work. You only could add or remove keywords to/from the list.
+						not work. You can only add or remove keywords to/from an existing list.
 						<important><para>The keywords list must be in one line without line ending
 						characters.</para></important>
 					</para>
 				</section>
 				<section>
-					<title>Section [settings]</title>
+					<title>[settings] Section</title>
 					<para>
 						<table frame="all">
 							<title>General settings</title>
@@ -1038,7 +1039,7 @@
 									<row>
 										<entry>comment_open</entry>
 										<entry>A character or string which is used to comment code.
-											   If you want to use multiline comments, set also
+											   If you want to use multiline comments, also set
 											   comment_close, otherwise leave it empty.
 										</entry>
 										<entry>comment_open=/*</entry>
@@ -1054,20 +1055,20 @@
 										<entry>comment_use_indent</entry>
 										<entry>Set this to false if a comment character or string
 											   should start at column 0 of a line. If set to true
-											   it uses any indention of the line.
-											   <para><example><title>Comment indention</title>
+											   it uses any indentation of the line.
+											   <para><example><title>Comment indentation</title>
 											   <para>
 											   comment_use_indent=true would generate this if a line
-											   if commented(e.g. with
+											   is commented (e.g. with
 											   <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>D</keycap></keycombo>)
 											   <programlisting>	#command_example();</programlisting>
 											   comment_use_indent=false would generate this if a line
-											   if commented(e.g. with
+											   is commented (e.g. with
 											   <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>D</keycap></keycombo>)
 											   <programlisting>#command_example();</programlisting>
 											   </para></example></para>
 											   <note><para>
-													This setting works only for single line comments.
+													This setting only works for single line comments.
 											   </para></note>
 										</entry>
 										<entry>comment_use_indent=true</entry>
@@ -1078,7 +1079,7 @@
 					</para>
 				</section>
 				<section>
-					<title>Section [build_settings]</title>
+					<title>[build_settings] Section</title>
 					<para>
 						<table frame="all">
 							<title>Build settings</title>
@@ -1100,9 +1101,9 @@
 											   files. But it is also possible to use it with
 											   interpreted languages like Perl or Python. With these
 											   filetypes you can use this option as a kind of syntax
-											   parser, which does his output in the compiler message
+											   parser, which sends output to the compiler message
 											   window.
-											<para>You should quote the filename to support also
+											<para>You should quote the filename to also support
 											   filenames with spaces. The following wildcards for
 											   filenames are available:
 											</para>
@@ -1126,16 +1127,17 @@
 											   compiled while linking. The -o option is
 											   automatically added by
 											   <application>&app;</application>. This item works
-											   well with the gcc, but may be problemtic with other
-											   compilers(resp. linker).
+											   well with GNU gcc, but may be problematic with other
+											   compilers (esp. with the linker).
 										</entry>
 										<entry>linker=gcc -Wall "%f"</entry>
 									</row>
 									<row>
 										<entry>run_cmd</entry>
-										<entry>Use this item to execute your file. It has to been
-											   built. Use the %e wildcard to have only the name of
-											   the executable(i.e. without extension) or use the %f
+										<entry>Use this item to execute your file. It has to have been
+											   built already.
+											   Use the %e wildcard to have only the name of
+											   the executable (i.e. without extension) or use the %f
 											   wildcard if you need the complete filename, e.g.
 											   for shell scripts.
 										</entry>
@@ -1150,8 +1152,8 @@
 			<section id="filetypes_common">
 				<title>Special file filetypes.common</title>
 				<para>There is a special filetype definition file called
-					  <filename>filetypes.common</filename>. In this file are some general none
-					  filetype-specific settings defined.
+					  <filename>filetypes.common</filename>. This file defines some general
+					  non-filetype-specific settings.
 				</para>
 				<para>
 					<table frame="all">
@@ -1169,9 +1171,9 @@
 							<tbody>
 								<row>
 									<entry>default</entry>
-									<entry>The default style for text(e.g. for files without
-										   filetype). For the detailed format, please see above
-										   "Section [styling]".
+									<entry>The default style for text (e.g. for files without
+										   filetype). For the detailed format, please see the above
+										   "[styling] Section".
 									</entry>
 									<entry>default=0x000000;0xffffff;false;false</entry>
 								</row>
@@ -1184,14 +1186,14 @@
 								</row>
 								<row>
 									<entry>brace_good</entry>
-									<entry>The style for brace highlighting. It is used if a
+									<entry>The style for brace highlighting when a
 										   matching brace was found.
 									</entry>
 									<entry>brace_good=0xff0000;0xFFFFFF;true;false</entry>
 								</row>
 								<row>
 									<entry>brace_bad</entry>
-									<entry>The style for brace highlighting. It is used if no
+									<entry>The style for brace highlighting when no
 										   matching brace was found.
 									</entry>
 									<entry>brace_bad=0x0000ff;0xFFFFFF;true;false</entry>
@@ -1208,7 +1210,7 @@
 									<entry>The style of folding icons. Only first and second
 										   arguments are used.
 										   <para>
-											Valid values for the first argument areare:
+											Valid values for the first argument are:
 											<itemizedlist>
 												<listitem><para>
 													1 - for boxes
@@ -1219,7 +1221,7 @@
 											</itemizedlist>
 										   </para>
 										   <para>
-											Valid values for the second argument areare:
+											Valid values for the second argument are:
 											<itemizedlist>
 												<listitem><para>
 													1 - for straight lines


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