[Geany-Users] RFC: New Custom Filetypes Repository

[Sayth Renshaw]

A plugin is sort of similar to how vscode initial allowed customisation,
except they just used a yeoman generator that allowed the user to convert
textmate theme bundles to installed vscode themes.

Cheers

Sayth

On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 8:49 pm Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:

> On 01.01.2016 20:28, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> > Le 20/12/2015 03:11, Matthew Brush a écrit :
> >> […]
> >>
> >> I would like to propose that we add a new repository to Github, similar
> >> to geany-themes, where we add any custom filetypes that are useful, but
> >> perhaps aren't up to par or popular enough to add to Geany proper. This
> >> would give a single place to get them all at once (via Git or Github Zip
> >> file download), and also a repo for packagers to use should they want to
> >> provide a package.
> >>
> >> […]
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >
> > Why not, could be useful to some and have more semantic/visibility than
> > the Wiki.
> >
> > Tho, the Wiki filetypes also often comes with additional details, like
> > the snippet for filetype_extensions.conf, or a (possibly useful) build
> > script for Geany, comments, tips, etc.  Maybe there should be some
> > similar stuff in a repo with them then, maybe even an automated scritp
> > capable of altering filetype_extensions.conf and alike?
>
> Just a thought without huge reflecting: Couldn't this be done by a
> plugin? I mean, a plugin pulling from git repo filetype defintions and
> putting it into .config/geany and e.g. pasting snippets into snippets.conf.
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
>
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