[Geany-Users] Custom color highlighting

[Lex Trotman]

On 20 October 2013 00:46, Dennis Drescher <dennis at dreschers.info> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I am new to the Geany IDE but I am really liking it. I am using it in
> Ubuntu. One particular application I want to adapt if for requires color
> highlighting. I am tying to work through the user manual (
> http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#lexer-filetype) but
> admittedly, it is a steep learning curve for me. I have created color
> highlighting/syntax for this same application in Gedit but their system is
> totally different. I think Geany will be a much better environment if I can
> get color highlighting working.
>

You need to read the section on making custom filetypes.



>
> I created a custom filetypes file (a copy of the filetypes.latex) and put
> it in the .config/geany/filedefs folder. I added the type to the
> filedefs_extensions.conf and I am trying to edit the filetypes.usfm to get
> the color highlighting to start working. To start, I have edited these two
> sections:
>
> [keywords]
> # all items must be in one line
> primary=\id \h \toc1 \mt1
>

If you use the latex lexer you don't need to put the backslashes.



>
> [settings]
> # default extension used when saving files
> extension=usfm
>
>
You need to specify a lexer_filetype=latex setting so Geany knows how to
identify parts of your file to highlight (assuming you copied
filetypes.latex because latex is similar).

Regards
Lex



> This is a sample of data I am testing with:
>
> \id cid
> \h heading
> \toc1 Table of Contents
> \mt1 Main Title
>
> So far I have not had any success getting any markers to "light up". Any
> suggestions on what I should do next. Thanks in advance for any help anyone
> can give.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
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