Re: Now is the time to give Geany a try!
- Posted by K_D_R Feb 06, 2013
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I am very interested in your experience with Geany under Windows. Please keep me posted.
Progress, here! WE HAVE PROGRESS!
OK, my Geany for Windows proggie is coloring comments, strings, func/proc/end, if/else/not/and, and naked numbers.
Other keywords are not being highlighted, however.
On Windows, you have to put the customized stuff in the user's AppData folder, NOT in the programs installed folder (where the default files reside).
I'm also able to use a filetype.Euphoria and Euphoria=*.e;... paradigm, not having to replace Lua. Which is good, since I'll probably continue doing Lua development as well. 
I hope that's clear.
I am surprised that you have any highlighting at all using a filetype.Euphoria, considering this statement in the reference you provided: "You can add a filetype without syntax highlighting or tag parsing, but check to see if those features have been written in other projects first."
But I wonder how difficult it would be for a C-programmer to cobble together full Euphoria Support by editing the Lua support files. Under Linux the only Geany feature that doesn't seem to work properly is code folding.
This is interesting: " It may be possible to use an existing Scintilla lexer in the scintilla/ subdirectory - if not, you will need to find (or write) one, LexFoo.cxx. Try the official Scintilla project first." Perhaps something in Mike Duffy's Scintilla Edit Control files can be used? http://rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=scintilla
