> On 13 April 2012 22:59, Fischer, RonaldX O
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I would like to have Geany recognize my scripts written in Tcl/Expect,
> to do
> > syntax highlighting according to the Tcl syntax rules.
> >
> > These scripts all start in my case with
> >
> >  #!/usr/bin/expect -f
> >
> > and have no file extension. 

> 
> The #! line associations are hard coded unfortunately, but another way
> is to explicitly mark the file as Tcl so it will be recognised by the
> extract filetype regex.
> 
> The default regex looks for -*-Tcl-*- on the first two lines, so
> putting that in a comment on line two should do the trick.

Unfortunately, this did not work. Here is how I tried:

(1) I created a new file (File/New)

(2) I wrote the following two lines:

#!/usr/bin/expect -f
# -*-Tcl-*-   (for Geany)

(3) I saved the file (filename: dummy1 (no extension)).

Still, Geany shows the filetype as "None".

Ronald

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