[Geany-Users] How do I apply visual styling to AsciiDoc markup?

[Lex Trotman]

And I might add that although Asciidoc has no colouring in Geany, its
better than gedit which determines that my .asciidoc files are C and
so highlights C keywords in text, eg "for" "if" etc

Cheers
Lex

On 8 March 2017 at 10:02, Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lex,
>
> Thank you. I just couldn't work out why it wasn't being applied.
>
> On 7 March 2017 at 14:16, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You havn't missed anything, simply nobody has written the Scintilla
>> lexer required for styling Asciidoc.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>> On 7 March 2017 at 13:24, Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I wrote most of my documentation in AsciiDoc, naming files with the
>> > extension .adoc. I want to apply styling to the AsciiDoc markup so that
>> > I
>> > can easily differentiate it from my content.
>> >
>> > Operating system: Fedora 25 (GNOME edition)
>> > Geany version: 1.29
>> >
>> > I read the Geany manual and did the following steps in a Terminal
>> >
>> > 1. Navigated to ~/.config/geany/filedefs
>> > 2. cp /usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.asciidoc
>> > 3. Opened filetypes.asciidoc in Geany
>> > 4. Added to the [styling] section the following, copied from the
>> > filetypes,markdown file:
>> >
>> > default=default
>> > strong=string_3
>> > emphasis=string_4
>> > header1=keyword_1
>> > header2=keyword_1
>> > header3=keyword_1
>> > header4=keyword_1
>> > header5=keyword_1
>> > header6=keyword_1
>> >
>> > 5. Opened an AsciiDoc marked-up file.
>> >
>> > Result?
>> >
>> > The header markers in the AsciiDoc file - '=' and '==' and so on do not
>> > appear to be styled. The header characters in a sample Markdown file
>> > *are*
>> > styled.
>> >
>> > When I open the example AsciiDoc file, Geany recognises it as such.
>> >
>> > I feel I'm missing something simple here, but I can't work out just
>> > what.
>> >
>> >
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