[Geany] Building a new configuration file from scratch

[Matthew Brush]

On 01/19/2012 07:35 AM, thomas.puech at snecma.fr wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I am using Red Hat 5, and I would like to use Geany for editing text
> files for a very specific purpose (data files used for defining
> numerical simulations). As such, I need to define a whole new
> configuration file with specific keywords for syntax highlighting as
> well as code folding or for the tags of the symbol list.
>
> As I understood from the documentations of the release 0.20, it is very
> easy to modifiy an existing configuration file, but it seems to be
> harder to build a new configuration file from scratch and include it in
> the Geany interface (not in place of an existing one, but as a new one
> added to the available language choices).
>
> Please could you tell me if this is feasible, and if so, how ?
>

Hi,

The HACKING[1] file has a very basic (but complete) list of things that 
need to be done to add a filetype. It doesn't go into great detail but 
if you have any specific questions, always feel free to ask. The 
geany-devel mailing list may be more appropriate for specific questions 
about the code.

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Cheers,
Matthew Brush

[1] https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/HACKING#L383