[Geany-Devel] Hello!

[rhkramer at gmail.com]

Welcome (although I am not an active developer of Geany)!

Every once in a while I try to make this pitch:

I would like to get a folder / lexer written for scintilla for a variant of 
the TWiki markup language.  Scintilla is the editor component (iiuc) used by 
Geany, and is also used by several other open source editors and maybe even 
word processors, so something like this would be applicable to more than just 
Geany.

Folder / lexers for scinitilla can be written in C/C++, LUA (a language used 
by scintilla, or, I think there is a third way.

I would consider the C/C++ approach to be the native (most native??) approach 
and presumably result in the fastest lexer / folder.

My problem is (I'm old and) I just can't wrap my head around C / C++.  Perhaps 
we could collaborate to some extent, and, maybe, in the process, I would learn 
enough C / C++ to carry on to completion after a reasonable start in the right 
direction.

If you're interested, let me know.  I'm thinking of doing any collaboration off 
list so as not to create unwanted traffic on this list, but perhaps some would 
like to follow anything we do, and even offer additional help.

Thanks for reading!
Randy Kramer


On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 12:42:33 PM you wrote:
> Hi,
>       I am an EE/CE engineering student with a little bit of experience in
> C. I want to get involved in the open source community and I have heard
> that Geany is a good starting point. I do not have an extensive knowledge
> of C, but I use C basics almost daily in MATlab, Arduino, and
> microprocessor applications that are translated to C. I am a very quick
> learner and I want to get more involved in developing/debugging the open
> source software that I use. I hope I can be of use to the Geany development
> community.
> Corey