You mean Geany...Lobster wrote:What requirements are needed to make Genie (our text editor)
Define "support".have support for Genie? (I should know this)
Geany is one of a number of editors based on Neil Hodgson's Scintilla edit control. For a probably incomplete list, see http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl? ... itorFamily
Scintilla provides syntax highlighting and code folding for supported languages. To add support for a language, you need to create a lexer for Scintilla, which describes the structure and syntax of the language. You can find instructions on doing that here: [url]http://www.scintilla.org/Lexer.txt[/quote]
Once lexers are created, you ought to be able to use Geany to create/edit genie/vala code, and use the IDE features to build your projects. IDE support for things like automatically displaying the results when your code is compiled and run may be another matter. I haven't looked into Geany enough to say.
Geany also lacks scripting support. That's not part of Scintilla. It's available in some other Scintilla based editors, like ScTE, which uses Lua as the script language.
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Dennis