[Geany-Users] Geany custom tags problems!

[Rue Sixteen]

I tried to create an account there but unfortunately it did not work. That
is why I posted the article in a different place and enclose the link below.

Thanks a bunch for all your help.

http://rue16.com/read-thread.php?mxid=462
On Aug 23, 2016 4:47 PM, "Lex Trotman" <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24 August 2016 at 07:07, Rue Sixteen <thule.arch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Amazing. Thanks for such a quick response. I put tag_parser=COBOL and
> > restarted Geany. Now it works. Now I need to go and expand the tag file
> with
> > all the words I wanted :-)
> >
> > I haven't seen a simpleton tutorial anywhere where this is detailed as a
> > step by step. May be I will write one and post it somewhere.
>
> Suggest to post here https://wiki.geany.org/
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> >
> > Thanks again for rapid response and help.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Colomban Wendling
> > <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Le 23/08/2016 à 22:33, Rue Sixteen a écrit :
> >> > […]
> >> >
> >> > As can be seen filetype txt is accepted, txt.txt.tags is loaded.
> However
> >> > it seems to be loaded for file type (txt) where as my text files come
> up
> >> > as txt (UTF-8).
> >>
> >> That's alright, the filetype is still "txt", the part "(UTF-8)" is the
> >> character encoding used to load the file.
> >>
> >> > Needless to say my tags from autocompletion don't show
> >> > up. However when I tried to set the file type to php manually and
> saved
> >> > the tag file as php.php.tags it worked. The same with setting manual
> >> > type of "txt" and loading txt.txt.tags does not work!
> >>
> >> Interesting.  You're hitting a subtle limitation that we should probably
> >> handle better: we cannot use tags if they are not associated with a tag
> >> parser (which is different from a filetype).
> >>
> >> To work around this, you can set the `tag_parser` key in the
> >> `[settings]` section of your custom filetype to the name of another
> >> filetype that already has a tag parser.  This way, your tags will have a
> >> proper "language" set on them and will be usable.  I suggest to use a
> >> tag parser that you don't otherwise use and doesn't have other tags yet,
> >> so you won't get unexpected completions.  I can suggest Ferite, Tcl,
> >> COBOL, etc. -- anything you don't use and that have a tag parser.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Colomban
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