[Geany-Users] Defining Functions for Geany “Filetype”

[Matthew Brush]

On 2017-01-05 02:19 AM, Gil Hornung wrote:
> Thank you Matthew,
>
> So I need to copy python.c into some other file (e.g. snakemake.c) and make changes to it?
>
> What should I do after that? How do I compile it and where so I store it such that Geany will use it?
>

It would be a lot easier just to tweak python.c to add your keywords and 
then make a patch you can apply locally before building Geany from 
source. Adding a whole new parser and filetype is significantly more 
work compared to modifying the existing one and creating a "custom 
filetype" (see user manual).

Regards,
Matthew Brush

>
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> From: Users [mailto:users-bounces at lists.geany.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Brush
> Sent: 04 January 2017 17:15
> To: users at lists.geany.org
> Subject: Re: [Geany-Users] Defining Functions for Geany “Filetype”
>
> On 2017-01-04 06:07 AM, Gil Hornung wrote:
>> Hi, I am using Geany as my text editor. I have started working on
>> snakemake, which, from a syntax point-of-view, is Python with a few
>> modifications. Python functions are defined by: def bla:
>> bunch_of_code
>>
>> snakemake adds the definition of "rules" in a similar way: rule bla:
>> bunch_of_code
>>
>> Geany presents in the side bar all the Python functions, but I also
>> want it to present all the rules. However, I was not able to find how
>> to define the keywords for a function in the file
>> geany/filetypes.python (I want to add the keyword rule).
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea?
>>
>
> It's baked into the ctags parser[0]. Adding a new keyword like this would require modifying the existing (or adding a new) parser.
>
> Regards,
> Matthew Brush
>
> [0]: https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/1.29.0/ctags/parsers/python.c
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