On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Roderick Johnstone <rmj(a)ast.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi
How can I change the mode of syntax highlighting that kate does for a
file extension of .pro? I read the section on syntax highlighting in the
kate handbook but am none the wiser.
That would be because the syntax highlighting chapter mentions "MIME
types" but not file extensions, though both are affected by the same
configuration screen. I just added a brief mention of file extensions
[1]; let me know if I can make it more clear.
kde 4.8.1 (on F16) recognises files with extension .pro, for syntax
highlighting purposes, as qmake files. This is shown by a checked radio
button under in tools/highlighting/other/QMake when editing a file with
this extension. Also, tools/mode/other/QMake is checked.
I'd like to make kate activate tools/highlighting/sources/RSIIDL for
syntax highlighting automatically for the .pro file extension instead
since this file type is used by the Interactive Data Language (now owned
by Excelis, but formerly by RSI, hence RSIIDL, to avoid a conflict with
IDL the Interface Definition Language) for its language source files.
I'd like to be able to make this change on a system-wide basis.
You can change this per-user in Settings > Editor Component >
Open/Save > Modes & Filetypes:
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-baseapps/kate/config-dialog-editor.html...
Simply remove the *.pro extension from the "File extensions" text box
under Other/QMake and add it to Sources/RSI IDL.
Unfortunately, AFAIK it's not possible to change it for all user
accounts on the system.
-T.C.
[1]
http://commits.kde.org/kate/2ed211891b52593a0d6f08b367656f2cd0ef76df