[Geany-Users] per filetype font

Johannes Lange johannes.lange at xxxxx
Sun Jun 15 09:01:16 UTC 2014


On Sun 15 Jun 2014 10:54:38 CEST,
Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 June 2014 18:14, Johannes Lange <johannes.lange at rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I am looking for a way to choose a font "per filetype".
>> E.g. I normally use a Monospace font for coding, but if I am writing
>> continuous text like with LaTeX, I'd prefer a proportional one.
>> Now I am using different filetypes in one session and don't want to switch
>> the font manually.
>>
>> Am I right that there is no way achieving this by the normal
>> filetype-settings?
>> Or is there a plugin doing something like this?
>
> Unfortunately there is only one font setting for all editor objects.
> Setting the font is not available in the plugin API so even a plugin
> can't change it.  Also it is set for all windows by Geany, so it would
> overwrite any plugin setting.

Thanks for the quick reply!
That's sad, I thought about writing a plugin for that already...
Would it be difficult to implement the font settings editor-wise?


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