[Geany] Issues adding a new filetype

[Yannis Mazzer]

Hi,
Yes I'm using the latest svn, but the color schemes were not deleted, I
have no syntax highlighting for any of the supported languages.

Regards,
Yannis.

> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:40:02 +0000
> From: Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Geany] Issues adding a new filetype
> To: geany at uvena.de
> Message-ID: <20091110164002.edd30196.nick.treleaven at btinternet.com>
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> 
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:25:59 +0100
> Yannis Mazzer <yannis.mazzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm using an unusual language at work called NesC, it's a C-based,
> > event-driven language for micro-controller programming. 
> > 
> > Some months ago I made everything necessary to have syntax
> highlighting
> > for this language in Geany and it worked. But sadly I lost the
> > changes
> > in a hard-drive crash, and now I'm trying to re-add this syntax
> > highlighting.
> > 
> > Anyway I'm having some trouble adding this filetype using the Cpp
> > Lexer.
> > I figured out that there is no --generate-data-files option anymore
> > and
> > that I had to edit the filetype_extension.conf. But I don't have
> > syntax
> > highlighting, not only for NesC, but for all languages supported by
> > geany. I'm using the current development version, and it seems there
> > is
> > a bug since when I revert my changes and compile, I can't get the
> > syntax
> > highlighting. 
> > 
> > Since I'm not an active geany developper and that I don't know the
> > code
> > perfectly, I'm asking you for advices.
> 
> Are you running latest SVN? I recently added some limited code for
> color
> scheme files, there was an issue where if the color scheme selected
> had
> been deleted the user would have to choose Default again. But that
> should be fixed in latest SVN.
> 
> Regards,
> Nick