[Geany-Users] EuGeany - Geany support for the Euphoria Programming Language

[Matthew Brush]

On 13-02-23 01:32 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:
> On 13-02-23 11:57 AM, Codger wrote:
>> Greetings All,
>>
>> This "kludge" may interest those who are interested in using Geany to
>> edit
>> source files in languages for which Geany has no native support.
>>
>> I have managed to obtain a high degree of support for the Euphoria
>> Programming Language, including syntax color and context sensitive
>> help, by
>> backing up the original lua support files/references in filetypes.lua,
>> filetype_extensions.conf, and snippets.conf,  and then editing the lua
>> files/references to
>> support Euphoria.  Support for Lua can be swapped/restored back by
>> executing a batch file type program,
>> written in Euphoria, which overwrites the the euphoria enabled, files
>> with
>> the origninal Lua support  files.  In like manner, Euphoria support
>> can be
>> selected again by copying/overwriting the Lua enabled files with those
>> supporting Euphoria.
>>
>
> TLDR; but you can make a custom filetype based on Lua's without
> clobbering the old one, there's some info in the manual:
> http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#custom-filetypes
>
> The general idea goes something like this:
>
>      $ cp /usr/local/share/geany/filetypes.lua \
>          /home/you/.config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Euphoria.conf
>
> And then edit the filetypes.Euphoria.conf file to customize keywords,
> settings, styles, etc. Then you need to add an extension to
> filetype_extensions.conf [Extensions] group:
>
>      Euphoria=*.eu;
>
> And then add it to a [Groups] group in that same file:
>
>      Script=...;Euphoria;
>
> Then after you restart all Geany instances you can have Lua and Euphoria
> side by side without having to choose which one is supported.
>

Forgot the last step, put it on Geany's Wiki :)
http://wiki.geany.org/config/start

Cheers,
Matthew Brush