[Geany-Users] Setting a lexer and colors for None filetype

[Jake Richards]

Lex Trotman <elextr at ...> writes:

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> On 9 November 2013 04:35, Jake Richards <blaven-
Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:Hello:  I have a bunch of log 
files that unfortunately do not have extensions.  So, when geany opens them, 
they are using the fileType:None, which I assume gets it's colors from the 
filetypes.common?  It seems though that I can't seem to make any changes 
that affect my log file.  The colors are always the default (all text black 
over white). I'd love to at least have some simple lexer installed so 
numbers and strings are color coded or even define a few keywords to hilite. 
 Is there a way to specify a lexer for the None filetype?
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> No (unless you want to do lots of C coding, in which case you can do 
anything :) 
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> As a second somewhat related question.  I have the lua plugin loaded and 
my logs are always in a certain folder.  Is it possible to set the fileType 
using lua and the open event?  I couldn't find the command in the lua geany 
docs.
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> It doesn't seem so.
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> To identify the file you could either:
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> 1. write a script to give the logs an extension and add that to 
filetypes.extensions, eg .fred, or
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> 2. if something unique appears in the first few lines of the log file 
modify the filetype extraction regex to get a "filetype", eg if "fred bloggs 
loggs" appears in the file use "(fred) bloggs loggs" as the regex to get 
filetype "fred"
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> Now you have a filetype you can write a custom filetype based on an 
existing filetype and lexer that works "well enough", see the manual.
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> Cheers
> Lex
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> Thanks!
> Jake
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Thanks for the reply!  It looks like option 2 might be my best bet as the 
logs do have a pretty unique first line.  I'll check the docs for that regex 
for the filetype.  Thanks again!

Jake