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

[Lex Trotman]

On 24 February 2013 11:47, Codger <wolfmanjacques at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
>>
>> 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
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>
>
> Perhaps I am doing something continually wrong, but I have not been
> able to get the approach you have outlined above, which is described
> in the manual to work - the syntax coloring does not work.
>
> Let me be specific - the filetypes.lua file when edited to support Euphoria
> works very, very well - almost flawlessly (folding is a wee bit funky)
> When this file is copied to the filename filetypes.Euphoria.conf, and Geany
> is
> restarted, and Euphoria Source Code is selected from the Document/Set
> Filetypes/Scripting Languages menu - all text color reverts to black in
> files with the designated Euphoria extensions.
>
> I am puzzled as to why the method you have described, which is also
> described
> in the Geany manual, apparently works for some type of language files, but
> not
> for Euphoria.  I should also note that at least two other Euphoria user's
> have failed to obtain color syntax support for Euphoria files, except by
> editing the lua support files, as I have done.

Did you put a lexer_filetype=Lua in the filetypes.Euphoria.conf?

Cheers
Lex


>
> I am attaching the file filetypes.Euphoria.conf which is what I use renamed
> as
> filetypes.lua, just in case you, or some one else familiar with Geany might
> find
> out what is going wrong where.
>
> Your assistance is appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Ken Rhodes
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