[Geany-Devel] Interested making a patch to add QML support

[Matthew Brush]

On 13-09-17 03:59 PM, Tory Gaurnier wrote:
> [...]
> I didn't realize I'd have to create the lexer myself. Is it possible to use the C lexer that's already in Geany and then work it into the QML file type? The only thing I really want to get working is the symbol list (which would be the ctags thing you refered to if I'm not mistaken, right?).
>

You could look at the CTags tutorial about extending[1], it has an 
example for writing a "regex-based" parser which will probably be quite 
a bit easier for a language like QML, if maybe less powerful than a 
character-based parser.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush

[1] http://ctags.sourceforge.net/EXTENDING.html