Re: [gedit-list] Syntax Highlighting

[Andreas Tepe <andreas tepe physics gatech edu>]

Hello John,

yes, the problem is known and probably not a gedit problem.

I got this answer about it:

> Hi,
>
> this is a problem in gtk itself, so until it gets fixed there we can't make anything about that.
>
> Regards.

There are also some other issues, like the impossibility of defining the syntax highlighting colors 
in a GUI (like it was possible in former times), but this is because of some very stupid gnome 
politics not allowing the users to change anything anymore unless they are not willing to mess 
around with style files.

The argumentation behind is that any user could create a nice style file and shares it with the 
world. This is as far from reality as it can be...

You would be surprised (if you don't know yet already) how many nice settings screen savers have 
when using xscreensaver instead of the gnome-screensaver. (But you would also be surprised how 
difficult the gnome people it made to deactivate the gnome-screensaver...)

Cheers,
Andreas


John Pye schrieb:
> This bug has bothered me too, but I never worked out exactly what was
> happening. Is this a known and reported problem already?
>
> Bug is still present on Ubuntu 9.10.
>
> Cheers
> JP
>
> Andreas Tepe wrote:
> > I really like gedit (except the bug that copying with the middle mouse button click causes a jump to
> > the original text) 

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