How to change matching brace color in Geany v2.0 ?

[that-ben]

Might be related to or even a duplicate of geany/geany#885 but I could not figure it out. I'm new to Geany.

If it means anything, I'm currently using the "Kary Pro Colors - Bare Dark" scheme.

[elextr]

Same as geany/geany#885, to change a colour scheme you have to edit the colour scheme file you are using and change the setting geany/geany#885 mentioned.

[that-ben]

Alright, so given that I'm using the "Kary Pro Colors - Bare Dark" scheme, I can still launch this to access the file you're talking about, correct?

[elextr]

No, filetypes.common is the default colour scheme, you need whatever file you installed for the one you are using.

[that-ben]

I did not install any, I selected "Kary Pro Colors - Bare Dark" from the list of bundled schemes like this:

I'm sorry if I'm infuriating long time users with this question right here, but I'm a complete Geany n00b so I have no clue what I'm doing! 🤣 Where should I look for that file exactly?

[elextr]

What OS are you using?

[that-ben]

macOS Sonoma on a brand new iMac M3 that I received yesterday. Found this by following the location that's appearing in my previous screenshots in the window's title bar, but that folder is empty :(

[elextr]

Oh, apples are things I eat, not compute so I can't help you. But there is a mac specific issues for Geany so I'll transfer this issue to there.

[that-ben]

But isn't Geany OS agnostic? I mean it doesn't even use the native open/save dialog interface.

[elextr]

Geany is, but system file layouts are not.

[elextr]

No, Geany uses GTK on all platforms, never the native dialogs.

[elextr]

In case its any help for you finding them colour schemes on Linux are in ${PREFIX}/share/geany/colorschemes or ${HOME}/.config/geany/colorschemes.

[that-ben]

Found this... progress?

Now in the appropriate color scheme, I see these brace lines, what do you think I should edit?

I tried to change the following line and chose 0xff0000 just to make sure it's apparent enough, I saved the file, quit Geany, re-launched it and it's still the same as before. I also selected another color scheme, quit Geany, re-launched, selected the modified color scheme again, but it's still the same.

brace_good=pro_orange,0xff0000;true;false

[that-ben]

Found it. Geany 2.0 comes with a few broken color scheme templates. Look at the brace_good line, whoever made those bundled schemes typed a comma instead of a semicolon!

When I fix the broken scheme, it now works properly. If the Geany programmer sees this, the default line should be reading:

brace_good=pro_orange;pro_selection_background;true;false

Perhaps this should be fixed before releasing v2.0.1 ... make sure to check the light scheme from the same name also as it contains the same typo! ;-)

[elextr]

The bundled colour schemes are from this collection. Note its a collection, not made, tested or guaranteed by Geany devs. You could try raising an issue there so it doesn't get lost, the colour scheme contributors don't neccessarily watch the code repo, or even better make a PR.

[that-ben]

Thanks @elextr I raised the issue over on the other GH, so I guess this one here can be closed.