Custom syntax highlighting in Geany

Question

I am trying to create custom syntax highlighting for Kivy \'.kv\' files in the Geany editor. Although the specific filetype seems irrelavant to the issue I\'m having, as any

Answer 1

Set lexer_filetype= property in the [settings] section of your filetype file. Working highlighting requires that there is a lexer that could be used for highlighting the .kv-files.

For more info see http://www.geany.org/manual/#lexer-filetype