[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Question: highlight-API: is loading/querying of individual styles possible? (#2331)

[elextr]

> The colorschemes seem to do the job.

Yep, thats the approved method for users to specify colours.

The sequence is:

1. `highlighting` maps the Scintilla style numbers to syntactic entity names for each lexer, and 

2. `filetypes.common` defines named styles and default styles for them (this is Geany's default colour scheme), and

3. the individual filetype files map syntactic entity names used by that filetypes lexer to named styles, and

4. the colour scheme can override the default styles from `filetypes.common` for the named styles

If a user wants different colours for the same syntactic entity in different filetypes they can create new named styles and only use them in some filetypes files, or replace the mapping in the filetype files between entities and style names with a literal style if they only want to change one filetype.

There is no API because setting it programatically would break this configuration scheme.  



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