Re: [gedit-list] eRuby plugin available?

["John Gabriele" <jmg3000 gmail com>]

Jesse van den Kieboom wrote:
> Op do, 20-07-2006 te 15:43 +0200, schreef David B\ufffd
> > Hello
> > I am using gedit for *.rhtml documents. For that type of document i am
> > missing syntax highlighting. Is there an plugin available?
>
> No there is not. But it's not a plugin doing the highlighting. The rhtml
> hihglighting issue has come up a couple of times if I recall correctly.
> The highlighting works by inspecting the mime type of the document and
> having language spec files which specify to which mime types they
> apply.

How is a text file's mime type determined?

> What is rhtml exactly (html with ruby embedded I guess?).

Yup. If interested, see http://www.rubycentral.com/book/web.html and
scroll down to "Embedding Ruby in HTML".

> The current
> highlight engine cannot highlight two different embedded languages so it
> would be a bit of a mess anyway (just like how php is now). The new
> highlighting engine should take care of this problem.

When you say "new highlighting engine", do you mean a newer version of
GtkSourceView? Or are you switching to something else?

Thanks,
---John