[Geany] Help with custom compiler

[Lex Trotman]

On 19 July 2012 16:04, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf at shopzeus.com> wrote:
>
>>>>
>>>> You can write a regex for what you need in the "Error regular
>>>> expression"
>>>> text box in the Build Commands configuration. I think you can also store
>>>> the
>>>> regexp in the `filetype.yourlanguage` file.
>>>>
>>>> Docs:
>>>> http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#build-menu-configuration
>>>
>>> Yes, I was aware of this. As I said, *i was reading the [build-menu]*.
>>> The
>>> question was: how to distinguish errors from warnings and notices? I
>>> would
>>> like Geany to display errors in red, warnings in blue and notices in
>>> green.
>>> Is that possible? Unfortunately, the link you sent says nothing about
>>> this.
>>
>> No this isn't possible, the regexes, or in their absence the built-in
>> tests, just distinguish between a message that indicates a file and
>> line number that Geany can jump to, and any other message.  The
>> purpose is to recognise the file and line information, not really to
>> separate types of messages.  The colour of messages is just to
>> indicate that you can click on them or not.
>
> Thanks. But I still don't know how to do it. Obviously, I wouldn't like to
> browse C source files. In fact it was about 5 years ago when I last wrote a
> program in C, so even if I downloaded the sources, it wouldn't help.

A quick search of the manual for regex finds
http://www.geany.org/manual/current/#build-settings-section for how
the regex is used

Cheers
Lex

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