Geany¶

Geany is a free (GNU GPL 2 or later) lightweight cross-platform text editor. It includes a basic IDE features.

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)

# 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 then 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)

Add Scol extension :¶

Open Geany and go to Tools -> Configuration Files -> filetype_extensions.conf
Add the line :

Scol=*.pkg;