[Geany-Users] scintilla & gtkrc lexer

Lex Trotman elextr at xxxxx
Sat Mar 17 23:37:16 UTC 2018


On 18 March 2018 at 09:23,  <bendov at gmx.com> wrote:
> Some time ago I asked about a lexer for gtkrc files (for gtk-2 apps).  I
> believe the answer was that there wasn't one.
> Maybe it changed since then?
>
> I saw on https://foicica.com/scintillua/LexerList.html that it lists gtkrc
> files as already supported - same as CSS.
> Unless a later Geany version than mine now includes gtkrc in the file types
> lists, it's not listed.
>
> Is there a reason the Scintillua gtkrc lexer won't / doesn't work with
> Geany?

Because nobody wrote the code to make it work :)


> If it will work & can catch some errors, it'd help a lot.
>
> Would it be possible for me to "drop in" (as they mention) a recent
> Scintilla version into the latest stable Geany?
>
> How exactly would that work?  Would it be added like a plugin into Geany?
>
> They note that PGP signatures are also available for Scintillua.
>
> Thank!
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