Comments on Ruby, Javascript, Erlang blog: Snakes, Gems & Coffee: Registering Rails File Extensions in GEdit

did you go to View->Highlight Mode and then choose...

2008-05-04T19:17:00.000-05:00

did you go to View->Highlight Mode and then choose YAML under whichever menu you told it to be in when you created the yaml.lang file?

I can't seem to get it working right, your syntax ...

2007-07-26T21:37:00.000-05:00

I can't seem to get it working right, your syntax looks right, but it's not matching any of my yaml. I have a simple assoc array like

---
title: Cool Blogs
blog: Snakes, Gems & Coffee
topic: Rails with Gedit

I set all the types to different colors in my gedit and it's still all uncolored. If I ever get free moment between my projects then I'll work on it, but right now, I'm busy working 60+ hours/week in PHP.

With the exception of YAML all the other language ...

2007-06-21T17:06:00.000-05:00

With the exception of YAML all the other language specs were defined on my Linux installation (Fedora Core 6). In the case of YAML, you will need to create a file at /usr/share/gtksourceview-1.0/language-specs/yaml.lang that looks something like the following (although it is far from perfect):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE language SYSTEM "language.dtd">
<language _name="YAML" version="1.0" _section="Others" mimetypes="text/x-yaml">

<escape-char>\</escape-char>

<string _name="String" style="String" end-at-line-end="FALSE">
<start-regex>"</start-regex>
<end-regex>"</end-regex>
</string>

<string _name="Constant String" style="String" end-at-line-end="FALSE">
<start-regex>'</start-regex>
<end-regex>'</end-regex>
</string>

<line-comment _name="Line Comment" style="Comment">
<start-regex>#</start-regex>
</line-comment>

<pattern-item _name="Scalar Value" style="Scalar Value">
<regex>\w*</regex>
</pattern-item>

<pattern-item _name="List Item Value" style="List Item Value">
<regex>^\- .*</regex>
</pattern-item>

<pattern-item _name="Key" style="Key">
<regex>^[\w_]*:</regex>
</pattern-item>

<pattern-item _name="Inner Key" style="Inner Key">
<regex>\W[\w_]*:</regex>
</pattern-item>
</language>

Then after the language spec is defined for gtksourceview you can customize the colors to be used for each pattern item in GEdit's Preferences (under the Syntax Highlight tab).

HTH and let me know how I can tweak the yaml.lang file further if you play around with it.

Do you know of a way to add color support for thes...

2007-06-21T13:37:00.000-05:00

Do you know of a way to add color support for these mime types to gedit, or is that a lot harder. Thanks for the tip by the way.