[Geany-Users] Any way to make geany recognize modelines for syntax coloring?

[Lex Trotman]

On 13 January 2016 at 05:35, Karma Kolabor <collaborista at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, wait - is there any way to change that expected "Ruby" string to
> "ruby" in any configuration file?

No, as a built-in language its hard coded.  Why can't you just put
both a vi style mode and an emacs style mode for Geany and friends?

> Thanks again!
> Karma
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Karma Kolabor <collaborista at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ah, hmm, would you please like to make this case  insensitive?
>> You know, it would be really nice if it just worked out of the box...
>> modelines are such a common thing...
>> I do not know how to change case with a regex, maybe there is some way
>> to do that?
>> Any other solution to make geany support this are very welcome, thanks!
>> Have a nice day,
>> Karma
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 13 January 2016 at 02:23, Karma Kolabor <collaborista at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi, Thomas,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the quick answer - unfortunately I can not get it to work.
>>>>
>>>> I have this on top of the file (this is btw a Vagrantfile, so you can
>>>> easily reproduce):
>>>> # -*- mode: ruby -*-
>>>
>>> The name extracted has to be spelled correctly, Ruby not ruby.
>>>
>>>> # vi: set ft=ruby :
>>>>
>>>> then I am using this regex in the extract_filetype_regex setting:
>>>> -\*- mode: ([^\s]+) *-\*-
>>>>
>>>> That should match the first line - but no syntax highlighting is happening.
>>>> The regex should be ok, see http://regexr.com/3cids
>>>>
>>>> what am I missing?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again for your attention,
>>>> Karma
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Thomas Martitz <kugel at rockbox.org> wrote:
>>>>> Am 12.01.2016 um 15:29 schrieb Thomas Martitz:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 12.01.2016 um 14:40 schrieb Karma Kolabor:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have not seen any way to make geany recognize modeline line e.g.
>>>>>>> # vi: set ft=ruby
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> is there a feature or any plugin for this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If not, may I post this as feature request to the tracker?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> thanks for yor attention,
>>>>>>> karma
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a modeline plugin in the works (will be based on my peasy proxy
>>>>>> plugin) but it's not ready yet. I'll try to cover your use case.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the meantime you can set up a regex to extract the filetype in the
>>>>>> various preferences that should at cover some filetypes, see
>>>>>> http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#various-preferences
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Please be aware that for this to work the modeline has to be in the first or
>>>>> second line of the file.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>
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