[Geany] How to invoke the Markdown lexer?

[Randy Kramer]

Lex,

Thanks for the reply! (including the explanations and suggestions.)  

Unfortunately, by the time I read this I had already purged the Debian 
installed copy of geany.  I did some experimenting afterwards, and 
learned some things, but have more to learn. ;-)

No need to read or reply to the rest of this--it just sort of helps 
remind me of what I did and didn't try so far.

I very rarely start an app from the KDE menu--I almost always do it from 
a konsole or the "Run Command" popup.  (Ignoring those that are 
automatically (re-)started when I do a rare reboot.)  Those were the 
only two ways I started geany.

I was (and still am, I think) under the impression that those commands 
are executed "as is"--I mean, the GUI didn't do anything strange to 
them.  After the purge (in other words, too late), I did "which geany" 
from the konsole and from the Run Command pop up, and both 
showed /usr/local/bin/geany, which makes me think at least now they're 
using the (or some) PATH.  Maybe KDE runs in sort of a separate shell 
with it's own environment?

No, I guess not, as I ran echo $PATH from both konsole and the Run 
Command popup and both show the path I mentioned earlier:

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

I'm not sure what kde does with respect to starting an application from 
the menu--even after I purged geany I found a menu entry for geany 
under Development--the "command" listed there shows as "geany %f"--I 
would have thought that would simply look for geany on the path.

So, I've learned something, but have more to learn--next time I see an 
opportunity, I'll try some testing to see if I can pin down what was 
happening.

regards,
Randy Kramer

On Wednesday 02 September 2009 08:20:22 am Lex Trotman wrote:
> 2009/9/2 Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com>:
> To check
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