On 24 August 2016 at 07:07, Rue Sixteen <[email protected]> wrote: > Amazing. Thanks for such a quick response. I put tag_parser=COBOL and > restarted Geany. Now it works. Now I need to go and expand the tag file with > all the words I wanted :-) > > I haven't seen a simpleton tutorial anywhere where this is detailed as a > step by step. May be I will write one and post it somewhere.
Suggest to post here https://wiki.geany.org/ Cheers Lex > > Thanks again for rapid response and help. > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Colomban Wendling > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Le 23/08/2016 à 22:33, Rue Sixteen a écrit : >> > […] >> > >> > As can be seen filetype txt is accepted, txt.txt.tags is loaded. However >> > it seems to be loaded for file type (txt) where as my text files come up >> > as txt (UTF-8). >> >> That's alright, the filetype is still "txt", the part "(UTF-8)" is the >> character encoding used to load the file. >> >> > Needless to say my tags from autocompletion don't show >> > up. However when I tried to set the file type to php manually and saved >> > the tag file as php.php.tags it worked. The same with setting manual >> > type of "txt" and loading txt.txt.tags does not work! >> >> Interesting. You're hitting a subtle limitation that we should probably >> handle better: we cannot use tags if they are not associated with a tag >> parser (which is different from a filetype). >> >> To work around this, you can set the `tag_parser` key in the >> `[settings]` section of your custom filetype to the name of another >> filetype that already has a tag parser. This way, your tags will have a >> proper "language" set on them and will be usable. I suggest to use a >> tag parser that you don't otherwise use and doesn't have other tags yet, >> so you won't get unexpected completions. I can suggest Ferite, Tcl, >> COBOL, etc. -- anything you don't use and that have a tag parser. >> >> Regards, >> Colomban >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
