[Geany-Users] el-files not recognized for syntax highlighting

[Lex Trotman]

See https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#filetype-extensions

Cheers
Lex

On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 at 18:02, <c.buhtz at posteo.jp> wrote:
>
> Hello together,
>
> I use Geany 1.37.1 from the Debian stable (11, Bullseye) repository.
>
> When I open files with the suffix ".el" (which is common for Lisp or
> Emacs-Lisp) the syntax highlighting does not work because the file type
> is not set to "Lisp".
> I have to do this manually over the "Documents" -> "File type" menu.
>
> I couldn't find a section about it in the manual or in the settings
> dialog to modify this behavior.
>
> And from my point of view it feels like a bug because Geany itself knows
> Lisp but does not recognize Lisp-files (el).
>
> What can I do?
>
> Kind
> Christian
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