<p>I added small script:</p>
<div class="highlight highlight-source-lua"><pre><span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-c">--[[</span></span>
<span class="pl-c">  Copy selected text to new tab</span>
<span class="pl-c">  2017.11.18</span>
<span class="pl-c">--<span class="pl-c">]]</span></span>

<span class="pl-k">local</span> s <span class="pl-k">=</span> geany.<span class="pl-c1">selection</span>();

<span class="pl-k">if</span> (s <span class="pl-k">==</span> <span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span><span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>) <span class="pl-k">then</span>
  geany.<span class="pl-c1">message</span>(<span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>No text is selected!<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>);
<span class="pl-k">elseif</span> (s <span class="pl-k">==</span> <span class="pl-c1">nil</span>) <span class="pl-k">then</span>
  geany.<span class="pl-c1">message</span>(<span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>There is no open document!<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>);
<span class="pl-k">else</span>
  <span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-c">--</span>SCI_GETLEXER</span>
  <span class="pl-k">local</span> l <span class="pl-k">=</span> geany.<span class="pl-c1">scintilla</span>(<span class="pl-c1">4002</span>);
  geany.<span class="pl-c1">newfile</span>();
  geany.<span class="pl-c1">selection</span>(s);
  <span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-c">--</span>SCI_SETLEXER</span>
  geany.<span class="pl-c1">scintilla</span>(<span class="pl-c1">4001</span>, l);
  geany.<span class="pl-c1">status</span>(<span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>Lua-script: Copy selected text to new tab.<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>);
<span class="pl-k">end</span></pre></div>
<p><code>SCI_GETLEXER</code>works fine, all values (<code>SCLEX_*</code>) were correctly received, but <code>SCI_SETLEXER</code> is not working.<br>
Why? It's bug or not implemented?</p>
<p>Xubuntu 17.10 x64, Geany 1.31, I also checked current Git versions.</p>

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