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How can I add in the regular expressions for an additional syntax language?

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Be more specific, what text editor are you talking about? Gedit? – enzotib Aug 2 '11 at 12:43
You should tell us, which editor you use; gedit, mcedit, scite? And if you tell us the language, maybe we know, where to get a syntax file. – user unknown Aug 2 '11 at 12:46
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The language is actually a highlighting scheme for a text file. We invented it so it does not exist anywhere. The editor is the default editor that comes with Ubuntu. It just says Text Editor, but in Help About it says gedit. – George Bailey Aug 2 '11 at 13:56

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Gedit (the default text editor) using GTKSourceView for it's syntax highlighting. It uses XML files to define how to highlight different syntax. There is a tutorial and a reference document on the GTKSourceView site. Finished source file definitions are stored in /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/, you might want to check them out to learn by example. There is also a less in depth tutorial on the Gedit site.

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I assume you are talking about gedit (labeled as "text editor" in the ubuntu menu).

Here is everything you need to know.

Basically you have to create a new language definition for GtkSourceView, which is the syntax highlighting component used by gedit.

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