As usual, I was overly complicating things. For anyone wanting the
solution, just change the Language type of your converted DRYML
snippets file (the gEdit version you converted from the TM bundle) to
HTML. You then just tell gnome to treat dryml extensions as html files
and boom, you're done. Thanks for the direction Bryan. It helped a
lot.

On Feb 1, 11:02 am, Bryan Larsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't use gEdit, but when I load a DRYML file in gEdit it looks
> fine.   It appears to have automatically chosen HTML mode.   If you
> can find an ERB mode, that would probably work even better.   HAML is
> very different from DRYML, so I wouldn't use that.
>
> sorry I don't have any real suggestions,
> Bryan
>
> On Jan 30, 7:08 pm, Banjoey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > This is somewhat off topic, and if no one else is using gEdit, please
> > feel free to tell me to leave... :)
>
> > I am trying to get gEdit to recognize my dryml files (Ubuntu 9.10),
> > and am having some issues. I don't even care at this point if it gives
> > me "great" highlighting, I just want it to recognize the files as
> > usable in the snippets tool (similar to TextMate's on OSX).
>
> > I think the problem is in gnome's mime type system, but am not sure.
> > the cards.dryml, forms.dryml, and pages.dryml seem to be recognized OK
> > as far as syntax highlighting, but application.dryml and any dryml
> > file I create do not. I can use snippets in .rb files, just not in
> > dryml. Here is what I have done so far:
>
> > Created a dryml.lang file in /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-
> > specs. I basically copied the haml.lang file and just changed the haml
> > to dryml and HAML to DRYML. I'm sure I could clean this up/add to but
> > I just want it working...
>
> > Next, I created a dryml.xml file in ~/.local/share/mime and ran some
> > mime update command (update-mime-database mime).
>
> > Anyone using Ubuntu and gEdit who has figured this out yet? If not,
> > I'll go to an Ubuntu or gnome forum, but thought I'd at least ask here
> > first...
>
> > Thanks!
> > Joey

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