[Geany-devel] Using Geany for VHDL / Verilog

[Kelvin Gardiner]

Hi,

I've attached a number of patches and new files to add Verilog syntax 
highlighting and symbols. I've taken the Verilog lexer directly from 
Scintilla.

Regards,
Kelvin

Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:03:31 +0000
> Kelvin Gardiner <kelvin at mbmn.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> I've fixed the VHDL symbols, two patches are attached for src/symbols.c 
>> and tagmanager/vhdl.c.
>>     
>
> Thanks, applied.
>
>   
>> I tried creating a tags file for auto-completing functions in standard 
>> IEEE VHDL packages (similar to having gtk tags). I've done this by 
>> adding vhdl.tags in to /usr/share/geany but this doesn't work. I copied 
>> c99.tags to vhdl.tags and that didn't work either so presumably I need 
>> to add something else somewhere to get this working. What do I need to do?
>>     
>
> Check the manual - it should be called something like std.vhdl.tags and
> placed in /usr/share/geany/tags or ~/.config/geany/tags.
>
>   
>> I'd like to create symbols for Verilog as well. If I copy vhdl.c and 
>> change it as needed and modify the symbols.c to pickup Verilog files. 
>> Will these symbols get picked up or do I need to get geany to recognise 
>> Verilog files. Also, how to get geany to do syntax highlighting for Verilog.
>>     
>
> It sounds like you want a new filetype for Verilog as it seems this is
> quite different from VHDL. See the HACKING file for how to add a
> filetype. There is a Verilog tag parser in the ctags project you could
> adapt and a lexer for highlighting in the Scintilla project src
> directory.
>
> Regards,
> Nick
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