[Geany-Users] Themes, Snippets, etc.

[Alan Becker]

First, let me correct something I posted before.  when I was posting the 
mods I made to the mc.conf theme, I posted that I had set the following:

default=#f7f7f7;#12126d;true;true

I did this thinking that the ;true;true would enable the color 
settings.  In fact what this did was set Bold and Italic on all default 
text.  Now I'm using:

default=#f7f7f7;#12126d;false;false

and this makes things look much better.

Also, I have gotten interested in using the Snippets feature. But I do 
most scripting in either Perl or Bash, and there were no sections 
defined in the snippets.conf file for these languages. So I decided to 
write my own.  I added 2 sections: [sh] and [perl], and started to write 
some rules.  However, nothing was recognized.  I copied one rule to the 
[Default] section, and it worked fine there.  So I started looking 
further for the issue.  I found the following 2 comments in the 
snippets.conf file:

# For a list of available filetype names, execute:
# geany --ft-names

So I executed this command, and noticed that the listings for Perl and 
Shell scripts each was done with an initial Cap.  I changed my section 
headers, and all started working as intended. The outcome is you MUST 
replicate both the spelling and the capitalization as shown by the geany 
--ft-names command, or the new section will not be recognized.  By the 
way, this is not mentioned in the Main Geany documentation.

On the same subject, I found numerous instances of a substitution string 
%block_cursor% in snippets.conf. However, the meaning of this string is 
not explained,  either in the file or in the Geany Main documentation.  
Does anyone know what this substitution does, or how it is different 
from %cursor%?

Hope this helps someone

Alan Becker