Re: [gedit-list] Help me on adding a new syntax highlight to gedit

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>]

desyX wrote:
> Hi,all.
>    I have recently added xxx.lang to the directory
> /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs, expecting a new syntax
> highlight. But the newly added highlight only shows up when I am in the root
> account, and I cannot find the new hightlight when I use gedit in my normal
> account. I guess there is sth wrong in my gedit confgure file, but I cannot
> fix it.
>   Could any be kind to give me suggestions? thanks in advance.
>   
You probably created the file with root and it now has read permissions 
only for root? Try doing chmod a+r 
/usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/xxx.lang. Alternatively, if 
it's just for your user, put the file in 
~/.local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/


Jesse