[Gretl-devel] Re: external editors (gtksourceview)

Am 16.01.2020 um 20:40 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> path right here). Then I logged out and in again. Gedit then offers a >> "gretl" entry among the recognized programming languages, but no syntax >> highlighting is done. Too bad. > > I gave that a quick go myself but didn't get as far as you! No > highlighting, and not even any "gretl" entry in the language listing. > This was with gedit 3.34.1. BTW the path is > /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs . OK, I managed to get it working now. The problems seem to be the references to the (non-open-source) foreign languages Stata and perhaps also Ox. So I commented out everything related to that; in particular the <context id="foreign-stata"... and <context id="foreign-ox"... blocks, along with the associated lines close to the end of the file: <!-- <context ref="foreign-stata"/> --> <context ref="foreign-python"/> <!-- <context ref="foreign-ox"/> --> This time I copied the file not to the system-wide location but to ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs, but that shouldn't matter of course. Then restarting Gedit gave me syntax-coloring for gretl .inp files alright!