[Geany-Users] Help: Custom syntax highlighting file.

[Daniel Carrera]

Hello,

I want to add syntax highlighting for Gnuplot files. I have made an
effort to follow the documentation but the syntax highlighting doesn't
work. My guess is that I got the file contents wrong. I am using the
instructions in the manual:

http://www.geany.org/manual/dev/index.html#custom-filetypes

As instructed, I edited  filetype_extensions.conf  and inserted the
following line:

Gnuplot=*.plt;*.gp;

I also created filetypes.Gnuplot.conf and I have every indication that
Geany can in fact read this file:

1) I now have a new menu entry: Document > Set Filetype > Gnuplot file.
2) Geany seems to recognize that a file with the .plt or .gp extension
is a Gnuplot file (it says "Gnuplot" on the status bar).
3) All this stops working if I remove filetypes.Gnuplot.conf

So clearly Geany can see the file. But I do not have any kind of
syntax highlighting that I can see. So I suppose that my file contents
are wrong. Here is the file. Can anyone see an obvious problem with
it?

-------------------------- // --------------------------
# For complete documentation of this file, please see Geany's main documentation
[styling]
# foreground;background;bold;italic
default=0x000000;0xffffff;false;false
commentline=0xd00000;0xffffff;false;false
number=0x007f00;0xffffff;false;false
word=0x111199;0xffffff;true;false
string=0xff901e;0xffffff;false;false
character=0x404000;0xffffff;false;false
operator=0x301010;0xffffff;false;false
identifier=0x000000;0xffffff;false;false
backticks=0x000000;0xd0d0d0;false;false
param=0x009f00;0xffffff;false;false
scalar=0x105090;0xffffff;false;false
error=0xff0000;0xffffff;false;false
here_delim=0x000000;0xddd0dd;false;false
here_q=0x7f007f;0xddd0dd;false;false


[keywords]
primary=at help plot set terminal eps png svg enhanced plot key top
down left right label xlabel ylabel xrange yrange


[settings]
# default extension used when saving files
extension=plt

# the following characters are these which a "word" can contains, see
documentation
#wordchars=_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789

# single comments, like # in this file
comment_single=#
# multiline comments
#comment_open=
#comment_close=

# set to false if a comment character/string should start a column 0
of a line, true uses any
# indentation of the line, e.g. setting to true causes the following
on pressing CTRL+d
        #command_example();
# setting to false would generate this
#       command_example();
# This setting works only for single line comments
comment_use_indent=true

# context action command (please see Geany's main documentation for details)
context_action_cmd=

[indentation]
#width=4
# 0 is spaces, 1 is tabs, 2 is tab & spaces
#type=1

[build_settings]
# %f will be replaced by the complete filename
# %e will be replaced by the filename without extension
# (use only one of it at one time)
run_cmd="./%f"
-------------------------- // --------------------------

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,
Daniel.