[Geany] How to invoke the Markdown lexer?

Randy Kramer rhkramer at xxxxx
Wed Sep 2 11:39:18 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 01 September 2009 10:38:15 pm Lex Trotman wrote:
> its in menu->document->set filetype->miscellaneous
> languages->markdown
>
> The extension according to the filetypes file is .mdml

Lex,

Thanks!  I hate to keep admitting things, but it looks like I had 
another ebkac (well, mostly anyway).

I had first installed geany using aptitude (on Debian)--it got installed 
in /usr/bin/geany.  When I built geany from source, it got installed 
in /usr/local/bin/geany. 

(And no doubt, /usr/bin is before /usr/local/bin on my path--hmm, but I 
just checked and /usr/local/bin seems to come first--I guess I don't 
understand the Linux PATH--does it work in reverse order?  My PATH:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/rhk/bin
)

Anyway, bottom line, the wrong executable was being run (which didn't 
have Markdown as a menu choice.

Sorry for the noise, but I guess I am wondering if the README for geany 
shouldn't tell you where it is being installed.  (After 10 years of 
migration into Linux, there is still stuff that doesn't make sense to 
me.)

So I wonder at the "proper" solution.  I think I'll try an aptitude 
uninstall geany (or whatever the right command is--ok, actually, I 
think I'll do a purge, then reconfigure geany if some things 
configuration gets lost).

Randy Kramer



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