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<p>New to Geany hacking (I fully understand that Geany is an unpaid volunteer project), but I'm also interested in Julia support. Based on a comment by <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/elextr/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/elextr">@elextr</a> in <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="486628210" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2279" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/issues/2279/hovercard" href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2279">#2279</a>, to add Julia support to Geany, there are 3 steps to follow (create a custom filetype file, add a Scintilla lexer and add a uctags parser), but some initial functionality may be already achieved by creating a custom filetype file that relies on existing Scintilla lexer and uctags parser. If that's the case, besides being over 5 years old, what are the issues with the custom filetype proposed above by <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/peter1000/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/peter1000">@peter1000</a>? Generally, what's needed to make a good Julia filetype file?</p>
<p>Moreover, I started looking at the <a href="https://www.geany.org/manual/dev/index.html#filetype-definition-files" rel="nofollow">Geany manual</a>, the <a href="https://geany.org/manual/hacking.html#adding-a-filetype" rel="nofollow">Hacking Geany guide</a> and the <a href="https://www.scintilla.org/Lexer.txt" rel="nofollow">Scintilla lexer reference</a> and I was wondering whether one should first create a lexer and a parser and then work at the filetype file. Finally, is there some example to look at to create a working and exhaustive lexer and parser for Julia? The Scintilla lexer documentation is a bit intimidating...</p>

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