I am unable to find Makefile.am

[brewmanz]

In https://geany.org/manual/hacking.html (dated 2016-07-26 18:15:59Z) under [filetypes.* configuration file](https://geany.org/manual/hacking.html#id32)
it mentions
Don't forget to add the newly created filetype file to data/Makefile.am
but I cannot find Makefile.am anywhere on my Ubuntu 20.04 computer when filtered by (case ignored) geany.
I am using geany 1.36 (built on 2020-03-22 with GTK 3.24.14, GLib 2.64.1)
I realise that that is 2 years old, but would mention that it's the latest that Ubuntu 20.04 LTS seems to know about.

[elextr]

Assume your reference is this, it doesn't link.

Hacking (and Makefile.am) is for working on Geany source, so you need to get Geany source. An install from a distro won't have source.

But the section I linked above is for adding a builtin filetype, needing code changes in Geany (which you would not be able to make without source anyway) not a custom filetype as discussed in #3232.

So I suspect this is not what you want to do.

Yes, Ubuntu LTS is well, long term stable, ie it doesn't update to newer versions, those go to the non-LTS first.

[brewmanz]

Thanks for that. It's just difficult finding which bits are relevant when comments say # For complete documentation of this file, please see Geany's main documentation; technically true but practically not helpful.
I may yet resort to forking the source, but still got a few more rabbit holes to jump down before I exhaust custom filetypes.

[elextr]

I assume you are still working on Awk. There is no awk specific lexer in lexilla, so (unless you write one) you are stuck using a lexer that is "close enough". So the only reason to add a built-in type for awk would be to get the ctags symbol parser for awk. I'm not sure how up-to-date Hacking is about adding a parser, probably best to examine any recent PRs that do it.

[brewmanz]

I'm currently working on making an 'awk profile that looks perl with extra/different keywords' approach.

[rdipardo]

There is no awk specific lexer in lexilla

True. But a downstream maintainer has developed one (for GAWK, by the looks of it): https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2/blob/main/scintilla/lexers/LexAwk.cxx

[kugel-]

I think the original issue is resolved.