[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Create julia lexer and tags parser (#2584)

[elextr]

I didn't look at the lexer code, but most lexers load the "keyword" lists from Geany.  Not sure how you can approach the two word keywords (curse Jeff and his femtolisp parser :-) where each word is a valid variable in other contexts. Unless you simply build it into the lexer, have it know and find the two word keywords first and do not test any of the keyword list keywords in that case.  

A similar (unsolved) issue happens with C++ where names like `override` which are keywords in one context and variable or type names in other contexts are currently keyword highlighted in all contexts since the lexer doesn't have sufficient capability to distinguish the context, it also happens in other IDEs where highlighting is separate from parsing (eg Eclipse).

So its not unprecedented if some edge cases are wrongly highlighted, just raise an issue after this is committed.

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