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Re: Adding /* */ to Geany

• Posted by K_D_R Aug 06, 2013
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comment_single=-- 
# this is an alternative way, so multiline comments are used 
comment_open=/* 
comment_close=*/ 

From Geany's Help Manual:

Configuration files

Warning

You must use UTF-8 encoding without BOM for configuration files.

Configuration file paths

Geany has default configuration files installed for the system and also per-user configuration files.

The system files should not normally be edited because they will be overwritten when upgrading Geany.

The user configuration directory can be overridden with the -c switch, but this is not normally done. See Command line options.

Note

Any missing subdirectories in the user configuration directory will be created when Geany starts.

You can check the paths Geany is using with Help->Debug Messages. Near the top there should be 2 lines with something like:

Geany-INFO: System data dir: /usr/share/geany Geany-INFO: User config dir: /home/username/.config/geany Paths on Unix-like systems

The system path is $prefix/share/geany, where $prefix is the path where Geany is installed (see Installation prefix).

The user configuration directory is normally: /home/username/.config/geany

Paths on Windows

The system path is the data subfolder of the installation path on Windows.

The user configuration directory might vary, but on Windows XP it's: C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\geany

Tools menu items

There's a Configuration files submenu in the Tools menu that contains items for some of the available user configuration files. Clicking on one opens it in the editor for you to update. Geany will reload the file after you have saved it.

Note

Other configuration files not shown here will need to be opened manually, and will not be automatically reloaded when saved. (see Reload Configuration below).

There's also a Reload Configuration item which can be used if you updated one of the other configuration files, or modified or added template files.

Reload Configuration is also necessary to update syntax highlighting colors.

Note

Syntax highlighting colors aren't updated in open documents after saving filetypes.common as this may take a significant amount of time.

Global configuration file

System administrators can add a global configuration file for Geany which will be used when starting Geany and a user configuration file does not exist.

The global configuration file is read from geany.conf in the system configuration path - see Configuration file paths. It can contain any settings which are found in the usual configuration file created by Geany, but does not have to contain all settings.

Note

This feature is mainly intended for package maintainers or system admins who want to set up Geany in a multi user environment and set some sane default values for this environment. Usually users won't need to do that.

Filetype definition files

All color definitions and other filetype specific settings are stored in the filetype definition files. Those settings are colors for syntax highlighting, general settings like comment characters or word delimiter characters as well as compiler and linker settings.

See also Configuration file paths.

Filenames

Each filetype has a corresponding filetype definition file. The format for built-in filetype Foo is:

filetypes.foo The extension is normally just the filetype name in lower case.

However there are some exceptions:

Filetype Extension C cpp C# cs Make makefile Matlab/Octave matlab There is also the special file filetypes.common.

For custom filetypes, the filename for Foo is different:

filetypes.Foo.conf See the link for details.