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I am on linux ubuntu 20.04
geany version:
geany 1.36 (built on 2020-03-22 with GTK 3.24.14, GLib 2.64.1)

simplest test possible:

  • at tools menu, edit the asm single line comment from ';' to '#'
  • reload the configuration files or restart geany
  • absolutely nothing happens
  • try to root edit related file: /usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.asm
  • absolutely nothing happens again

is the config all hardcoded?

none of the related questions and answers helped:
geany custom filetype .svrf for syntax highlighting
Custom syntax highlighting in Geany
Make Geany recognize additional file extensions
...

am I doing something wrong?

as soon I am able to make anything work at all, I will try to add a new filetype with many specific setting, so I just need to at least make anything work at all initially.

Aquarius Power
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My observation: If a file filetype_extensions.conf exists in /usr/share/geany, then the file in ~/.config/geany will be ignored. So I do all my settings manually in /usr/share/geany/filetype_extensions.conf. Since I do not have any special filedefs, can't tell you if this is true for them too. But I suppose it does.

(worked with ubuntu 20.03 and geany 1.36; still works with ubuntu 22.04 ans geany 1.38)

PS: take care to have a copy of your config files, when updating geany. This a workaround, not a solution.

Michael Stumpp
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  • I needed to modify the highlights and text formatting for pascal. the one that helped a bit was .asm format, but was not good enough. so I tried to customize for pascal (I think) but it did not accept any formatting (and comments delimiter) I tried to configure. But... now I am on 22.04, I just opened geany 1.38 and saw a nice pascal formatting! May be what I asked in the OP already works now (customize formattings), but I had not time to test and conclude this question. – Aquarius Power May 07 '23 at 22:50