Hello Lex, thank you so much for your immediate answer. — Uhh, I scanned through the HACKING file. It appears that the knowledge required to do this kind of extension is beyond my abilities due to the fact that I am not a programmer … Anyway thanks a lot for this straight forward answer.
Cheers Willi > On 28 Feb 2023, at 01:10, Lex Trotman via Users <users@lists.geany.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 07:02, Willi Egger via Users > <users@lists.geany.org> wrote: >> >> Good evening, >> >> The developer of the ConTeXt environment (Hans Hagen at pragma-ade.com) >> uses Scite as his main editor. He built a whole set of lexers for this, >> which enables Scite to make highlighting for all the different languages >> used inside ConTeXt e.g. TeX as ConTeXT, Lua, Metapost. So because Geany’s >> lexing is also based on Scintilla I asked myself whether it would be >> possible to learn Geany to use those lexers. > > To answer this and your previous in one, to add parsers (assuming its > in ctags) and lexers (assuming its in Lexilla) you need to make a > Geany built-in filetype which is documented in HACKING (and see also > github for recent language additions, eg Julia). > > Cheers > Lex > >> >> Kind regards >> >> Willi >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list -- users@lists.geany.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.geany.org > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users@lists.geany.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.geany.org _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@lists.geany.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.geany.org
