[Geany] Escape sequence highlighting question

[Matthew Brush]

On 02/12/2012 12:46 PM, Damon McMinn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> New to Geany (and programming).
>
> I would very much like to have escape sequences highlighted in a similar
> way to gedit. I've searched high and low for an explanation on how to
> achieve this and have come up empty. I'm sure it's very simple, however
> it's a mystery to me! I have attached a screenshot to visually explain
> what I mean.
>

Hi,

I had some code I was using to highlight colours in the text but it's 
quite general so I adapted it to highlight escape sequences for you, 
it's here if you want it:

https://gist.github.com/1815807

See the Plugin Howto for information on how to compile it.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush