Re: gedit/gtksourceview trouble making new language-spec

[M Watts <zwy648rct gmail com>]

On 12/31/2010 11:34 AM, Ed Greenberg wrote:
> Hi Folks,  Trying to make a new language definition for gedit
> (gtksourceview), I seem to be stuck.
>
> I'd like to highlight a c-like language called "Asterisk Extension
> Language."
>
> I started by making a copy of the language-specs/c.lang file in my
> ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs directory, called ael.lang.
> <language id="ael" _name="ael" version="0.1" _section="Sources">
> <metadata>
> <property name="mimetypes">text/x-ael</property>
> <property name="globs">*.ael</property>
> <property name="line-comment-start">//</property>
> <property name="block-comment-start">/*</property>
> <property name="block-comment-end">*/</property>
> </metadata>
> ----snip---

Try starting the .lang file with:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<language id="ael" _name="ael" version="2.0" _section="Sources" 
mimetypes="text/x-ael">

See also:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtksourceview/2.10/lang-tutorial.html
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtksourceview/2.10/lang-reference.html