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

[Lex Trotman]

On 13 January 2016 at 06:17, Karma Kolabor <collaborista at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, Lex,
> but
> # -*- mode: ruby -*-
> actually is emacs style, isn,t it? I am no emacs user, tend to use vim
> but like to avoid both of them if possible, but in a few files that I
> am looking at those modelines are alwys lower-case, maybe this is just
> accidentally so, I do not know. Vagrantfiles always come with a
> lower-case emacs modeline.

IIUC the emacs mode is the name of the mode function minus the -mode,
ie its a part of a lisp name, and lisp is typically case insensitive.
So emacs is probably accidentally case insensitive for the mode name.

>
> Thanks for your attention,
> Karma
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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