Small inconsistency with property files (*.ini)

[Heihon]

Geany 1.28 Release (Windows and Linux) and Geany 1.29 and I think also Geany 1.27 and before

Lines that start with ';' are syntax highlighted as comment.
Lines that start with '#' are syntax highlighted as comment.
An entry "key=value" in a line starting with ';' is shown in the symbols list.
An entry "key=value" in a line starting with '#' is not shown in the symbols list.

I attached a small test file test.ini, but I had to rename it to test.ini.txt because github refused to upload test.ini
test.ini.txt

[codebrainz]

With the default settings, ; shouldn't be highlighted as a comment (we even tell it to use # as the comment start). I guess the syntax highlighter must have it hard-coded inside to always support Windows-style ; comments.

[elextr]

The highlighting of comments is the Scintilla lexer, which highlights several similar versions of properties files and is hard coded to use #, ! and ; for comments. There is not way to change that without changing Scintilla, which is a separate project from Geany, you can raise a request here. But since all such properties files tend to use the extensions .ini, .conf etc interchangably its hard to tell them apart and I suggest it should remain general despite the fact that an occasional error may occur in highlighting.

The symbol parser is hard coded to use # and // as comments. There is no way of changing that without changing the ctags parser. The parsers mostly come from the universal-ctags project. The Geany one is the parent of the uctags one, but that has been changed to look for ; as well. There is an ongoing exercise to align Geany's parsers with uctags. @techee, maybe this should be added to the TODO list if it isn't already.

[techee]

Seems to be fixed with the updated parser.