RFE: please add support for Perl6 (Raku)

[ToddAndMargo]

Request for Enhancement: please add support for Perl6 (Raku)

[rdipardo]

A Raku lexer was added to upstream Scintilla some time ago: https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/1328/

You'll notice that Geany includes only a curated subset of upstream lexers: https://github.com/geany/geany/tree/master/scintilla/lexilla/lexers

Getting Raku into Geany would require a PR similar to these recent examples:

• Create julia lexer and tags parser #2584
• Add GDScript file type #3012

Since the lexer module is already written, an even better template would be #1752.

[rdipardo]

@ToddAndMargo, if you're still interested in having a builtin Raku file type, you can build a custom Geany from @techee's PR, like this:

[ ! -d geany ] && git clone -b perl6 https://github.com/techee/geany.git
cd geany
NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
mkdir -p _build _build/share/geany/

pushd _build
CFLAGS='-g -O0' \
../configure --prefix=`pwd` \
        --disable-html-docs \
        --disable-pdf-docs \
        --disable-api-docs \
        --disable-gtkdoc-header \
        --enable-binreloc=no
make -j2
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/src/.libs
popd

cp -ru data/* _build/share/geany/
`pwd`/_build/src/.libs/geany -v

Note
If you're on distribution that uses 'apt', you may need to run this first:

sudo apt install -y --no-install-recommends \
    autopoint \
    ccache \
    gettext \
    libtool \
    libgtk-3-dev

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi Rdipardo,

What is the release number that this first appears in? (If I can give Fedora the release number, they will spin a new RPM for me.)

Thank yoU!

-T

[b4n]

@ToddAndMargo It's not in any release version yet, it'll be in 2.1 whenever that comes out. In the meantime, it's in Git master now.