You can add the `*.sv` extension for Verilog in Tools > Configuration Files > 
file_extensions.conf, so that whenever you open a .sv file in Geany it gets 
detected and highlighted as a Verilog file.
But I'm not sure having Geany include that extension association by default 
would be a good idea.

Keep in mind that there will still be many SystemVerilog keywords that won't be 
highlighted as such, such as `class`, `interface`, `package`, `import`, 
`assert`, `logic`, etc.  (You can also add those yourself in Tools > 
Configuration Files > Filetype Configuration > Programming Languages > 
filetypes.verilog, under `[keywords]`.)
Also, the parser will not generate symbols for classes, structs, interfaces, 
etc in the list of symbols the way it does for other object-oriented languages 
such as C++; and it is possible that some SystemVerilog-only constructs lead to 
incorrect highlighting/folding when ignored or interpreted as plain Verilog.  
(There's no way to change this via config files.)  So ultimately, SystemVerilog 
support will not be complete; just a workaround to view SystemVerilog files 
with almost correct syntax highlighting, but it won't be perfect.

It could be useful to have Geany include `*.sv` as an alternative extension for 
Verilog files by default (I personally have it configured that way), but I 
don't know if that would be a good idea since as I said this is more a 
workaround than an actual implementation of support for SystemVerilog, and 
adding that extension by default could be seen as Geany implicitly claiming to 
support SystemVerilog, when it really doesn't.  (I don't know what's the policy 
on file extensions in this project; is it OK to add file extensions even if 
they're not exactly the same file type?)

A proper solution would be to actually implement a proper SystemVerilog parser 
in Geany (extending the one for Verilog), and then support both languages, but 
that's not as trivial as just pretending that .sv are plain Verilog files.

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