[Geany] Overriding styling settings from filetypes.common?

[Lex Trotman]

On 8 August 2010 12:30, Hillel Lubman <shtetldik at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi.
>
> Is it possible to override styling settings from filetypes.common in
> particular filetypes configurations? This can be useful for example when
> making a theme which does not yet contain the full set of filetypes.
>
> If the theme for example defines some specific current line in
> filetypes.common which doesn't match with white background - all non
> implemented filetypes will look bad. However if it would be possible to
> define something that fits with white bg in common, and something specific
> in each implemented particular filetype configuration - everything would
> look OK.
>
> So far it seems that Geany just ignores current_line settings in particular
> filetypes configurations.

Hi,

The filetypes.xxx only recognises the styling keys that are relevant
to the Scintilla lexer for language xxx, other keys such as
current_line are ignored in specific language files.

So you can overload things that your language understands, but not
language independent things.

Cheers
Lex

>
> Thanks,
>
> Hillel.
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