[Geany-Users] adding json support

[Bob Furber]

On 13-02-23 07:41 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:
>> No change even after restarting my PC: Names are bold black, values are
>> normal black, numbers are green ..and filetypes.JSON.conf looks like 
>> this:
>>
>
I found it!!

For some reason, I had 2 filetypes.JSON.conf files:

     /usr/share/geany/filetypes.JSON.conf
and
    /root/.config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.JSON.conf

This seems to have come about because I accessed Geany in supervisor 
mode to edit filetypes.JSON.conf.

In the meantime, I have merrily been editing 
/root/.config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.JSON.conf, while Geany, accessed 
in user mode uses /usr/share/geany/filetypes.JSON.conf.

> What are "names"? 

Perhaps I am using Name inappropriately. What I mean is the lowest 
element in a json file is a name:value pair (i.e., 
{"myVarName":"myVarValue"}). While not very important, I can see some 
merit in differentiating the name from the value.

The only way I have found so far to differentiate names from values is 
by setting lexer_filetype=YAML.

Thanks Matthew & Lex for all your help.

RF