[Geany-Users] enabling automatic indentation/unindentation in Lua

[James Brierley]

Hi Doug,

For a start, try copying filetypes.lua from /usr/share/geany to 
$HOME/.config/geany/filedefs, and uncommenting the indentation options 
(set them to tab width 2, I think that’s Lua style). Then when you type 
'do' or 'function' or whatever and indent, every successive line will be 
at that indentation level.

Hope this helps,

James

On 09/11/13 19:08, Doug Darrow wrote:
> I've been using Geany on Ubuntu 'Precise' 12.04 for a year (both 1.21
> and now 1.23.1 since it came out). I'm no programmer ( far from it!) and
> I've only gotten my hands and fingers to work well enough, since my
> stroke, to have any competence at typing. The big thing I liked in Scite
> was its ability to automatically indent based on Lua rules. I can't even
> get that to work in Scite now. Is there any way to do that with Geany?
> Can I set it to indent such lines as 'for' or 'do' and, possibly,
> UNindent 'end' lines? I mean short of C coding. I've tried fiddling with
> all the settings in Preferences but I'm just not competent enough to
> make the auto indentation work for Lua. (It's a struggle just to make
> Lua do what I want)
>
> Thanks for any help or trying to help.
> Doug
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