[Geany-devel] Custom Filetypes

[Lex Trotman]

Wow, looks pretty much all that is needed :-)  I'll try it out after I
stop hurting my head on build system dialogs.

Cheers
Lex

2009/10/20 Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com>:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:08:03 +0100
> Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> > > @Nick, you replied previously that you didn't expect to implement a
>> > > fully extendible filetype system (except as a dream :-) but how far
>> > > are you planning to go?  For example using an existing lexer/tag
>> > > parser so no programming is needed, could it make enough of a separate
>> > > filetype to do the things I've listed above?
>> >
>> > I think using an existing lexer (even with separate custom-FT styles)
>> > and using an existing tag parser seems fairly straightforward to
>> > implement, I might look at it soon.
>>
>> Implemented (without separate custom-FT lexer styles). I added
>> "lexer_filetype" and "tag_parser" [settings] keys, explained (briefly)
>> in the 'Filetype definition files' section of the manual.
>
> (Hmm, the web devel version of the manual doesn't seem to have the
> latest changes...)
>
> Just implemented loading global tags files for custom filetypes, but
> they will share the tagmanager tag type. E.g. if a custom filetype Foo
> has tag_parser=Perl:
>
> * Using Foo filetype will load any *.[foo_extensions].tags files.
> * Then using Perl filetype will load any *.[perl_extensions].tags files,
> and tags from both of these will now be used for both Foo and Perl
> filetypes.
> * If only using one of the filetypes in a Geany instance, the other
> filetype's tags files are not loaded.
>
> Regards,
> Nick
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