Re: mcedit syntax highlighting

[Holger Herrlich <holgerherrlich05 arcor de>]

If you want to use a syntax highlighting not made available yet, you 
have to add an entry at the file 'Syntax' -- so copy to ~/.mc/cedit and 
do it.

If you want to change syntax highlighting for maybe c -- copy c.syntax 
into the same directory (~/.mc/cedit) and play around.

Note that mc (or maybe mcedit) has to be restarted to take effect and 
that at 'Syntax' as well as at the '*.syntax' files itself, first match 
rules (if '<' is matched '<=' will miss). Not so easy, but extending or 
altering step by step will be a good start.

Things change today, as for instance mc.ext (defines associations of 
filetypes and actions) is also possible to copy to ~/.mc and /etc/mc 
comes to use but file names stay.

Holger


Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello Keith Roberts,
>
> Am 2010-08-21 19:54:36, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
> > What about copying ALL the mc syntax files to the user's
> > ~/.mc/cedit/Syntax directory? Does that work?
>
> This is what I have done. and it works flawless, but if you have a major
> update of mc which adds new Syntaxfiles, you have to care about it.
>
> > 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.
>
> Exactly.
>
> However, I do not recommend copying the files (at the very first startup
> of MC) to the users ~/.mc/cedit/ since it could  lead  to  problems with
> updated exspecialy with less experienced users.
>
> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
>     Michelle Konzack
>
>
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