Re: mcedit syntax highlighting

[Keith Roberts <keith karsites net>]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Michelle Konzack wrote:

> To: mc gnome org
> From: Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle tamay-dogan net>
> Subject: Re: mcedit syntax highlighting
>
> Hello StanisÅaw Findeisen,
>
> Am 2010-08-21 14:56:21, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
> > On 2010-08-21 03:10, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > > He can put the files under ~/.mc/cedit/  :-D
> > Thanks! It works! What a cool files! :-)
>
> In the time when I had found out it, there was not a singel indice, that
> you can do that...  I have ried it out and it worked!
>
> But there is a problem with it:
>
> If you have /usr/share/mc/syntax/Syntax and ~/.mc/cedit/Syntax the later
> one takes precedence and if you have only "C Source Code"  defined,  any
> other Syntax files from /usr/share/mc/syntax/ will be ignored.

What about copying ALL the mc syntax files to the user's 
~/.mc/cedit/Syntax directory? Does that work?

> FOR THE DEVELOPERS:
>    It would be an advantage, if the developers of MC could do a merge
>    of the two directories with precedence on  ~/.mc/cedit/Syntax  and
>    if a Syntax file is not found, MC looks into /usr/share/mc/syntax/
>
> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
>    Michelle Konzack

That makes perfect sense to me Michelle. So each user can 
have their own custom versions of the mc syntax files. As 
they are in the user's home directory, they would not get 
overwritten when there is an update to mc.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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