[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Small inconsistency with property files (*.ini) (#1220)

[elextr]

The highlighting of comments is the Scintilla lexer, which highlights several similar versions of properties files and is hard coded to use `#`, `!` and `;` for comments.  There is not way to change that without changing Scintilla, which is a separate project from Geany, you can raise a request [here](https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/).  But since all such properties files tend to use the extensions `.ini`, `.conf` etc interchangably its hard to tell them apart and  I suggest it should remain general despite the fact that an occasional error may occur in highlighting.

The symbol parser is hard coded to use `#` and `//` as comments.  There is no way of changing that without changing the ctags parser.  The parsers mostly come from the [universal-ctags](https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags/) project.  The Geany one is the parent of the [uctags](https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags/blob/master/parsers/iniconf.c) one, but that has been changed to look for `;` as well.  There is an ongoing exercise to align Geany's parsers with uctags.  @techee, maybe this should be added to the TODO list if it isn't already.



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