[Geany] setting up 'plaintext' file type

Sat Sep 8 00:59:12 UTC 2012

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> On 12-09-07 05:13 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:
>>
>> On 12-09-07 04:55 PM, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 12-09-07 02:06 PM, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the suggestions, Lex, Matthew, unfortunately the issue I
>>>>> mentioned below occurs even when I set the filetype to "none" (via
>>>>> menu->document->set filetype->none). Digging through the preferences
>>>>> again, I ran across "use indicators to show compile errors" and the
>>>>> hover-tip explains that it underlines with the squiggly underline that
>>>>> I'm seeing, but I have that setting turned off. It's strange because I
>>>>> have geany installed on my centos box and my winxp box, and as far as
>>>>> I can tell, the preferences for both are set up the same, but the <?
>>>>> in the same file triggers the indicator in the centos geany only. Is
>>>>> there something else I can try?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It could be that the CentOS version is really old and maybe there
>>>> used to be
>>>> a bug that is since fixed. Or maybe you have plugin on the CentOS box
>>>> that's
>>>> doing it but it's not installed in the Windows version. You can also
>>>> remove
>>>> the markers/error indicators using Document menu->Remove Markers and
>>>> Remove
>>>> Error Indicators, though likely they will come back later from
>>>> whatever is
>>>> causing the squiggles to show up.
>>>>
>>>> Otherwise, I don't know.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Matthew Brush
>>>
>>>
>>> Sigh. Yar, old version. Just checked and winxp version is 1.22, centos
>>> is 0.20.
>>>
>>
>> Even if it sounds like a big difference, versions went 0.20, 0.21, 1.22
>> so it's not *that* old, but still kind of old :)
>>
>>> Re the removing error indicators, I tried that as soon as I saw the
>>> explanation of what they were, but it didn't work either.
>>>
>>
>> That makes it sound like a plugin might be putting error indicators,
>> since using the menu to remove should always remove the ones Geany puts
>> there itself AFAIK.
>>
>>> I'm using the RPMforge version, the EPEL version is 0.21... I don't
>>> suppose anyone happens to know if another repo has a newer version?
>>> I'd like to have this be my default nedit replacement, which would
>>> mean it gets dumped onto about 20 centos boxes, and I'd really rather
>>> not have to do manual installs for it....
>>>
>>
>> I don't know any, unless you can use Fedora packages or something.
>> Compiling from source isn't too painful if you can install GTK+
>> development stuff from pre-built packages, though doing it on 20 boxes
>> might be tedious. Maybe you can compile on one box and make your own
>> package? I have no idea what's involved for CentOS to do this.
>>
>
> Actually, linked from the 3rd party packages page on Geany website is this:
>
> http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/el6/index.html
>
> It seems to have latest Geany 1.22 for CentOS, but I've no clue if it's any
> good or will post your bank account info on Facebook before deleting your
> hard drive (hence being under 3rd party pacakges) :)
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew Brush
>

Yeah, ~blush~, let's just say that I just figured out I'd downloaded
those third party rpms when I was installing the first time around,
and somehow or another I still managed to install the out-dated 0.20
version. While looking at the third-party rpms, I also realised that
the el5 version is the same as the rpmforge version, only the el6
version is using 1.22.

I have just finished yum-removing the 0.20 version (since yum would
not let me update to 1.22 directly) and then yum-installing the newer
version. I am now looking at my delightfully plain and simple notes
file :D YAY!

Much appreciate the help from you and Lex, you guys got me pointed in
the right direction :D

Thanks!
Miranda