[gedit-list] Fortran syntax highlighting suddenly stopped

[Toby Reynolds <toby mcs st-and ac uk>]

Hi folks, hope you can help me.

I have been using gedit for a long time quite happily to write Fortran 
77 code. Normally, each time I save a new file or open an existing one 
with a `.f' extension, Fortran highlighting is activated automatically. 
However, today it suddenly and randomly stopped working when I saved an 
open .f file in gedit - the highlighting just switched off and I was 
left with an open file of plain text. Files with a .f extension are 
still recognised as mime-type `text/x-fortran', but gedit does not seem 
to recognise them as such. This applies to both old and newly created 
files. Strangely, highlighting still works fine for all other Fortran 
extensions such as .f90, .f95, and even if I use a capital `f' (ie, .F). 
Can anybody think of a reason why this has happened?

Thanks for any help.

Toby

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