[Gretl-devel] Re: annoying buggy behavior of editor's auto-completion

On Fri, 4 Dec 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 04.12.2020 um 16:22 schrieb Allin Cottr >> Hmm, not sure about that. A standard gretl "make install" probably >> shouldn't be writing files into "someone else's" share directory. That >> could be a problem for packagers. But maybe there should be some >> option to do so. >> > Well, when I asked the gtksourceview people (back in January) if they > could distribute our .lang file, they said they'd rather not do that, > but that instead that share directory is the official place for > additional contributed language-spec files at installation time. Because > that's where apps like gedit which are using gtksourceview would look > automatically. And indeed we got gretl/hansl syntax highlighting in > gedit like that. Oh, alright, I'd forgotten about that exchange. Then I guess we can see about writing our lang files on install.