[Geany-Users] Highlight C function names?

[Lex Trotman]

On 11 January 2014 13:21, Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us> wrote:

> As I use Geany for C work, one enhancement to the syntax highlighting
> would be to have C function names highlighted.  This would be any
> symbol, other than a C language keyword such as do, if, else, while,
> etc. that often have an open parenthesis following them and are already
> highlighted.
>
> For example, main() would have the word "main" highlighted but not the
> paratheses.  Or, foo(bar(a, (b * x))) would have the words "foo" and "bar"
> highlighted, and the parentheses, operators, and arguments would be in
> the current colors.
>
> Perhaps this is a limitation of the Scintilla editor?
>

You are correct that the first step would be to make Scintilla's C lexer
identify function calls as separate entities that can be highlighted. (and
an option to turn this off as well)

Cheers
Lex


>
> This would really help when dealing with source that uses libraries such
> as Gtk+ with many long function names on line after line.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Nate
>
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