Re: Configuring KDE-KATE to use other highlighting syntaxes

On Monday 15 July 2002 19:54, Katinka Mills wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 06:06, Anders Lund wrote:
> > On Friday 12 July 2002 18:32, Katinka Mills wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am an EE and wish to use KATE to write programs for the ATMEL AVR.
> > >
> > > I would like to know the format of the files for syntax highlighting
> > > and where they are added, so I can configure an option up for the AVR
> > > asembler instructions.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Kat.
> >
> > The files are in $KDEDIR/share/apps/katepart/syntax.
> >
> > They are XML files, and there is some documentation in the kate manual,
> > as well as you should look at the existing files for reference.
> >
> > You can enable the XML plugin and use the language.dtd.xml meta DTD to
> > get some typing help for editing such files wihtin Kate, it you have a
> > recent (cvs, that is) version.
> >
> > -anders
>
> Hi all,
>
> I now have KATE 2.0 under KDE3.0.2
>
> I do not have a file called language.dtd.xml (but I do have one called
> langugage.dtd)

Hmm, It is part of the XML plugin installation, which is in the kdeaddons 
package.

> I have looked through the manual and not found much on making new
> highlights or how to add them.

That part of the documentation is in appendix A: "Working with Syntax 
Highlighting", should be.

> I think I have my file right :o) so now all I need to know is how to add it
> to the list in the highlighter section.

Just drop it in $KDEDIR/share/apps/katepart/syntax
- $KDEDIR may be your local one, usually ~/.kde3 or just ~/.kde, or the global 
installation prefix for kde, for example /opt/kde, that depends on your 
distribution.

> Once I have it all worked out I will provide it, as more and more ppl are
> moving from winblows to *nix for their programming platform :o)

Thank you! Let us know if you need help/testing.

-anders