[Geany] HTML5 entities

Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven at xxxxx
Fri Oct 22 16:56:20 UTC 2010


On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:46:08 +1100
Ross McKay <rosko at zeta.org.au> wrote:

> The following can be tacked onto the end of the html keywords line in
> filetypes.xml for the HTML5 new elements to be recognised:
> 
> article aside audio canvas command details datalist figure figcaption
> footer header hgroup keygen mark meter nav output progress section time
> video wbr

Done, thanks.

> What would be quite nice is to be able to have different modes for
> HTML/XHTML to allow for the defined keywords of each doctype to be
> recognised as appropriate, e.g. HTML <=4 and XHTML won't know what a
> canvas is so it should appear as an error in those doctypes, and HTML5
> won't know what center is (which is just as well because it's misspelled
> in all but Wronglish :)

Not sure about HTML5, but it might be nice to have a separate XHTML
filetype. I don't know if making a custom filetype would work but it
might be worth investigating if you like:

http://www.geany.org/manual/dev/index.html#custom-filetypes

Nick



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