<p>FWIW, it's fairly easy to write a naive plugin to select Objective-C when it matches <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-user-id="16524392" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/esotericpig">@esotericpig</a>'s criteria, and I gave it a try for fun: <a href="https://github.com/b4n/geany-plugin-matlab-or-objc">https://github.com/b4n/geany-plugin-matlab-or-objc</a><br>
If that's robust enough, maybe we could check if how fitting it'd be to have something similar in Geany proper (as we already have some inline detection built-in, maybe it can be extended in a non-ugly manner -- although it's trickier than it sounds because we prefer not to have to read filetype files before actually needing them, so we can't read detection settings from filetypes files…)</p>

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