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jondo

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Registered: 2020-08-17

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Mousepad syntax highlighting not working

Hello,

I am on Debian 10 with xfce 4.12 and mousepad 0.4.1. I observe that Python scripts opened with mousepad get the filetype detected as Document > Filetype > Script > Python, but I don't get any actual highlighting: All text stays the default black on white.

What could be wrong?

Best regards,
Robert

Last edited by jondo (2020-08-17 16:02:36)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: Mousepad syntax highlighting not working

Hello and welcome.

There is an old bug in that version of mousepad. You need to set the Color Scheme to anything but "None". Classic is the default one.

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jondo

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Registered: 2020-08-17

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Re: Mousepad syntax highlighting not working

That worked, thank you!

KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

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Re: Mousepad syntax highlighting not working

I have a slightly different problem with recognizing shell scripts without the extension appended. I don't append the .sh extension to my shell scripts (most POSIX shell scripts on my system do not have it), which makes them unrecognizable to GtkSourceView. I have these properties set in language-specs (even commented out the globs property):

<language id="sh" name="sh" version="2.0" _section="Script">
  <metadata>
    <property name="mimetypes">text/x-shellscript;application/x-shellscript;text/x-sh</property>
<!--    <property name="globs">*.sh;*bashrc;.profile;.bash_profile</property> -->
    <property name="line-comment-start">#</property>
  </metadata>

Is my only option here to start appending the extension?

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ToZ

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Re: Mousepad syntax highlighting not working

Which version of mousepad are you using? 0.4.90 added the ability to infer filetype from the shebang line. Do your scripts have shebang lines?

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KBar

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Re: Mousepad syntax highlighting not working

Which version of mousepad are you using?

Its version is 0.4.2 on Xubuntu 20.04.

0.4.90 added the ability to infer filetype from the shebang line.

Thanks. I see that now. Perhaps I can request a backport.

Do your scripts have shebang lines?

Of course I do, though POSIX leaves it unspecified.

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