Re: [Geany-Users] Help: Custom syntax highlighting file.
Hi, Couple of comments below. Cheers Lex On 3 September 2013 19:59, Daniel Carrera dcarr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I want to add syntax highlighting for Gnuplot files. I have made an effort to follow the documentation but the syntax highlighting doesn't work. My guess is that I got the file contents wrong. I am using the instructions in the manual: http://www.geany.org/manual/dev/index.html#custom-filetypes As instructed, I edited filetype_extensions.conf and inserted the following line: Gnuplot=*.plt;*.gp; I also created filetypes.Gnuplot.conf and I have every indication that Geany can in fact read this file: 1) I now have a new menu entry: Document Set Filetype Gnuplot file. 2) Geany seems to recognize that a file with the .plt or .gp extension is a Gnuplot file (it says Gnuplot on the status bar). 3) All this stops working if I remove filetypes.Gnuplot.conf So clearly Geany can see the file. But I do not have any kind of syntax highlighting that I can see. So I suppose that my file contents are wrong. Here is the file. Can anyone see an obvious problem with it? -- // -- # For complete documentation of this file, please see Geany's main documentation [styling] It is better to use named styles rather than setting hard colours, then your filetype will also adapt with loaded colour schemes. # foreground;background;bold;italic default=0x00;0xff;false;false commentline=0xd0;0xff;false;false number=0x007f00;0xff;false;false word=0x99;0xff;true;false string=0xff901e;0xff;false;false character=0x404000;0xff;false;false operator=0x301010;0xff;false;false identifier=0x00;0xff;false;false backticks=0x00;0xd0d0d0;false;false param=0x009f00;0xff;false;false scalar=0x105090;0xff;false;false error=0xff;0xff;false;false here_delim=0x00;0xddd0dd;false;false here_q=0x7f007f;0xddd0dd;false;false [keywords] primary=at help plot set terminal eps png svg enhanced plot key top down left right label xlabel ylabel xrange yrange [settings] To get highlighting you need to specify a lexer using the lexer_filetypes setting, see http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#settings-section Since there isn't a GNUPlot lexer you need to specify something close enough. # default extension used when saving files extension=plt # the following characters are these which a word can contains, see documentation #wordchars=_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789 # single comments, like # in this file comment_single=# # multiline comments #comment_open= #comment_close= # set to false if a comment character/string should start a column 0 of a line, true uses any # indentation of the line, e.g. setting to true causes the following on pressing CTRL+d #command_example(); # setting to false would generate this # command_example(); # This setting works only for single line comments comment_use_indent=true # context action command (please see Geany's main documentation for details) context_action_cmd= [indentation] #width=4 # 0 is spaces, 1 is tabs, 2 is tab spaces #type=1 [build_settings] # %f will be replaced by the complete filename # %e will be replaced by the filename without extension # (use only one of it at one time) run_cmd=./%f -- // -- Thanks for the help. Cheers, Daniel. ___ Users mailing list Users@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Geany-Users] Help: Custom syntax highlighting file.
Hi Lex, It is better to use named styles rather than setting hard colours, then your filetype will also adapt with loaded colour schemes. Ok. I found an example of that in filetypes.Python and I copied it. To get highlighting you need to specify a lexer using the lexer_filetypes setting, see http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#settings-section Since there isn't a GNUPlot lexer you need to specify something close enough. Ok. I tried to do this. I can get several lexers working (Perl, Python, C, Tcl) but the Bash lexer doesn't seem to do anything. No matter, the Perl and Python lexers seem to work fine. Thanks! Cheers, Daniel. ___ Users mailing list Users@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Geany-Users] Help: Custom syntax highlighting file.
On 13-09-03 04:30 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote: Hi Lex, It is better to use named styles rather than setting hard colours, then your filetype will also adapt with loaded colour schemes. Ok. I found an example of that in filetypes.Python and I copied it. Depending which lexer you use, the style definitions will be different, so if you copied Python's [styling] section but then used the Perl lexer, it probably won't work too good (except maybe for really common stuff like comments, normal strings, etc). To get an idea where these names come from you'd have to look inside `scintilla/include/Scintilla.iface` and `src/highlightingmappings.h` files in Geany's source tree. To get highlighting you need to specify a lexer using the lexer_filetypes setting, see http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#settings-section Since there isn't a GNUPlot lexer you need to specify something close enough. Ok. I tried to do this. I can get several lexers working (Perl, Python, C, Tcl) but the Bash lexer doesn't seem to do anything. No matter, the Perl and Python lexers seem to work fine. It depends on a) having a language that's close enough to your language that the given lexer can understand enough to get some useful highlighting and b) having the right stuff in `[styling]` that corresponds to your lexer, which is easier to do like `[styling=AnotherFiletype]` to copy from the true filetype, for example see filetype.Cython.conf. Cheers, Matthew Brush ___ Users mailing list Users@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
