[Github-comments] [geany] Preventing keywords from being changed (#834)

[elextr]

The only indication of what syntactic entity a character belongs to is the highlighting style.  Highlighting is done Scintilla lexers.  The set of syntax entities is filetype dependent (keywords, strings, comments, etc).  A dialog that provided a checklist of entities to select would have to be different for each filetype and synchronised with Scintilla each release (adding to the workload of incorporating a Scintilla release).

It is therefore unlikely to be implemented.

Instead you can simply be more specific in your search terms for replacement, eg replace $y with $x instead of just y with x.  This will also stop you changing $why to $whx or the comment `// why yell you yowee` to `// whx xell xou xowee` both of which which the syntax check would still allow.

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