Re: [gedit-list] Octave vs. Objective-C

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jesse icecrew nl>]

On Mar 18, 2010, at 6:39 PM, Søren Hauberg wrote:

> man, 15 03 2010 kl. 12:02 +0100, skrev Jesse van den Kieboom:
> > Søren Hauberg wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > I use gedit for all of my editing needs (thanks for creating an  
> > > editor
> > > that is powerful yet easy to use), which includes editing files  
> > > for GNU
> > > Octave. Script files for Octave uses the .m extension, which also  
> > > seems
> > > to be used by Objective-C. Every time I open a .m file it seems that
> > > Objective-C wins and gets to highlight the file.
> > We use the shared mime type database for detecting the type of a  
> > file.
> > In gtksourceview, first the glob specified by the language files is
> > matched to the filename. Then if there are more than 1 matches, the
> > mime-type is checked. In the case of octave and obj-c, they both have
> > the same globs in gsv and in the mime database. So the way they can  
> > be
> > differentiated then is only by the mime magick header detection,  
> > which
> > means if the file starts with either 'function' or '%' it is  
> > detected as
> > octave, but otherwise it seems it's obj-c.
>
> Ahh, I see. I guess this is a bug in the Octave .lang file as it  
> should
> also recognise '#' which is the default comment-marker. We have a guy
> working on improving the .lang file, so I'll just have him fix this.

No, it's not in the lang spec, but in the mime spec.

> > > Is there something I can do to ensure that by default Octave syntax
> > > highlighting is preferred over Objective-C highlighting?
> > You can always just remove the glob from the obj-c language file
> > (/usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/objc.lang). That should
> > make sure .m files are always recognized as octave highlighting.
>
> I guess this is an approach, but I do fear this will cause problems  
> when
> I upgrade my OS.

Yeah well, it's a small thing really. I didn't say it was a permanent  
solution, but at least
you'll have the immediate problem fixed for yourself.

> Thanks,
> Søren
>
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