Tutorials

h1. Geany

"Geany":http://www.geany.org/ is a free (GNU GPL 2 or later) lightweight cross-platform text editor. It includes a basic IDE features.

h2. Syntax highlighting

Copy the content below  in ~/.config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Scol.conf (Linux) or c:\Users\your_username\AppData\Roaming\geany\filedefs\filetypes.Scol.conf (Windows 7)

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# For complete documentation of this file, please see Geany's main documentation

[styling]

# Edit these in the colorscheme .conf file instead

default=default

comment=comment

commentline=comment_line

commentdoc=comment_doc

number=number_1

word=keyword_1

word2=keyword_2

string=string_1

character=string_1

operator=operator

identifier=identifier_1

stringeol=string_eol

verbatim=string_2

commentlinedoc=comment_line_doc

commentdockeyword=comment_doc_keyword

commentdockeyworderror=comment_doc_keyword_error

[keywords]

# all items must be in one line

primary=defcomm defcommvar fun proto struct typedef typeof var

secondary=do else if in let mutate set while

[settings]

# default extension used when saving files

extension=pkg

lexer_filetype=C

# the following characters are these which a "word" can contains, see documentation

#wordchars=_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789

# single comment char, like # in this file

comment_single=//

# multiline comments

comment_open=/*

comment_close=*/

# set to false if a comment character/string should start at 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)

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h2. Add Scol extension :

Open Geany and go to Tools -> Configuration Files -> filetype_extensions.conf

Add the line :

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Scol=*.pkg;

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and save.