[Geany-Devel] Shell Script Highlighting

[Lex Trotman]

On 4 November 2015 at 01:56, Devyn Collier Johnson
<devyncjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Geany Dev Team:
>
> When viewing shell script code, some commonly used shell commands are not
> highlighted (such as "sudo"). True, numerous commands are not part of the
> core scripting language, but it seems to me that such commands should be
> highlighted.
>
> Some additional examples of commands that I personally think should be
> highlighted include
>
> - chmod
> - chown
> - echo
> - rm
> - mkdir
> - dpkg
> - apt-get
> - and many other core-utils and package-management commands

All these are programs, so where do we stop?  What about "geany" ;)
and the compilers and ...

So then users will have the reasonable right to complain that
"my_obscure_executable" is not highlighted.

>
> What do you all think about this? Are their any objections to me adding such
> commands to be highlighted? Is there a proper way to make
> non-standard/non-official shell commands get highlighted by Geany?
>
> Does the [keywords] section of ./data/filetypes.* files support a
> "secondary=" category? If so, perhaps such commands could be listed in
> "secondary=".

The bash lexer only supports one keyword list.

The current words should be only shell built-ins not programs so
highlighting them helps define the structure of your code.  That will
be lost if every executable is highlighted.

I do not think non-built-ins should be added to the sh filetype word list.

Cheers
Lex

>
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> Thanks,
> Devyn Collier Johnson
> DevynCJohnson at Gmail.com
>
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