[Geany-devel] Using Geany for VHDL / Verilog

Chow Loong Jin hyperair at xxxxx
Fri Nov 20 10:23:28 UTC 2009


Hi Kelvin,
On Friday 20,November,2009 05:27 PM, Kelvin Gardiner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been looking at Geany for editing VHDL / Verilog files. Overall it
> works well with the exception of picking up symbols in the code.  VHDL
> variables are recognizing (is this a because variable var_name is used
> for another language?) but signals are not.
Did you make sure Geany's recognizing that file as a VHDL file? (Documents->Set
Filetype->Programming Languages->VHDL source file) I haven't actually used Geany
for VHDL files before though.

> How does Geany recognize symbols, I can't find any config files (I may
> of missed them) so presumably it is done in the code. How hard would it
> be to add symbol recognition for VHDL / Verilog. If it is reasonably
> straight forward I don't mind try to do this.
I think the stuff's usually in /usr/share/geany, specifically
/usr/share/geany/filetypes.vhdl. If you want to add more keywords, you could
probably add them to the "keywords" line in that file. You'd probably want to
copy it over to ~/.config/geany/filedefs first though, to prevent your changes
from being overriden if/when you upgrade Geany.

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

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