[Geany-devel] Re : abc tagmanager patch

[Forgeot Eric]

>I don't want to add any arbitraryfiletypes.
>We should limit the list of filetypes to those which are commonly used. 
>I think this "abc" should not be added.

well, it's a pity because every major text editor I know has support for abc: 

- Emacs has an external plugin:

http://www.geocities.com/mkjunker/abc-mode.el.html

(It's also easier to include external support for this kind of editor because they don't need to be recompiled)

- Vim has built-in syntax hightlight for ABC, it's included in the svn: 

http://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/vim7/runtime/syntax/abc.vim?revision=1586&view=markup

- Kate has built-in syntax highlight too:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kate/syntax/data/abc.xml?view=markup

I'm developping also a linux live-cd dedicated to the use of ABC notation, among other things. It uses the Gnome desktop and Geany as the main text editor:

http://anamnese.online.fr/site2/esclinux/esclinux2009_gnome1.png

I can patch myself every new release of Geany to get the abc support, but modifying 6 files just for this is quite an heavy work.

Only Geany has such amazing feature such as the tagmanager, it's the reason I wish Geany can support many filetypes. If it was only a matter of including a definition file into my ~/.geany, I wouldn't bug you for including it into the svn, I'd only propose it on my website.

Here is a picture of Geany displaying a tunebook:
http://anamnese.online.fr/site2/esclinux/kde_geany_abc1.png