[Geany] setting up 'plaintext' file type

[Lex Trotman]

On 7 September 2012 12:50, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
<hawarden at ifa.hawaii.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using geany for a couple months and really like it as my nedit
> replacement, but I'm running into an annoying problem that I'm not sure how
> to resolve. I maintain a "running notes" file in my public_html directory,
> its extension is one of our invisible php includes but I don't want the file
> syntax-highlighting as a php file, I want to be able to create a plaintext
> file type that I can select that has basically no formatting whatsoever.

If the extension you use doesn't apply to anything you want
highlighted then you can take it out of the filetypes.extensions file
so it won't be recognised as a filetype.

Otherwise you can set the filetype to none and it should not highlight
anything menu->document->set filetype->none

Cheers
Lex

>
> Unfortunately, nothing I've tried so far seems to work, if there are tags
> like <? etc in the file they trigger these really visually annoying blue
> underline marks on every line for the rest of the file. If I leave the file
> as php, most of it gets formatted as string code due to single and double
> quotes and that also makes it hard to read. I would really love to be able
> to set up some kind of config that just treats the text as simple plaintext,
> plain white or whatever colour text on a nice black background.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
> Miranda
>
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