Just a quick follow up on this. The modified j.lang provided by Ric works just fine. You can copy it into the protected directory with the sudo command (that sudo that you do - sorry couldn't help myself):
*sudo cp j.lang /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs* * * Now the only thing left is to complain about the colors. Thanks again On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:32 AM, John Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > I found the j.lang file shortly after sending help request for help. I > tried copying it to /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/ but was > blocked by user rights. Today I will "fight for my right" to copy. > > Thanks for the modified j.lang. > > > jdb > > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The latest version on Bugzilla has "map-to"s so should be fine. >> *Don't* use the ~system/config/j.lang >> It is old, redundant and should ideally be removed to prevent confusion. >> >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:23 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Actually it should already work if you copy the file j.lang from your j >> > installation such as at ~system/config to the folder (if you have the >> right) >> > /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/ >> > >> > however, gedit knows nothing about the color scheme that j-gtkide uses, >> so >> > that the style-id must map to default style by amending the j.lang, eg. >> > >> > <style id="adverb" _name="Adverb" map-to="def:operator"/> >> > <style id="comment" _name="Comment" map-to="def:comment"/> >> > <style id="conjunction" _name="Conjunction" map-to="def:statement"/> >> > <style id="control" _name="Control" map-to="def:keyword"/> >> > <style id="error" _name="Error" map-to="def:error"/> >> > <style id="exparg" _name="Explicit Argument" >> map-to="def:special-constant"/> >> > <style id="global" _name="Global" map-to="def:type"/> >> > <style id="labtext" _name="Lab Text" map-to="def:builtin"/> >> > <style id="local" _name="Local" >> map-to="def:special-char"/> >> > <style id="noun" _name="Noun" /> >> > <style id="noundef" _name="Explicit Noun Def" >> map-to="def:preprocessor"/> >> > <style id="number" _name="Number" map-to="def:decimal"/> >> > <style id="parens" _name="Parens" map-to="def:boolean"/> >> > <style id="primitive" _name="Primitive" map-to="def:reserved"/> >> > <style id="string" _name="String" map-to="def:string"/> >> > <style id="verb" _name="Verb" map-to="def:function"/> >> > >> > Вск, 15 Май 2011, John Baker писал(а): >> >> Lately I've been working on an Ubuntu 11.0x system porting JOD to >> Linux. >> >> >> >> The default text editor for this OS is something called GEDIT. GEDIT >> >> appears quite capable and does pretty much everything you expect of a >> text >> >> editor. It supports syntax coloring using *GtkSourceView* and >> provides a >> >> slew of (xml) *.lang coloring files in: >> >> >> >> */usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/* >> >> * >> >> * >> >> Of course J is not in the list of languages supported by default. Has >> >> anyone worked up a J specific *.lang file for this editor? I realize >> there >> >> are other supported editors mentioned in the J WiKi but frankly I am >> >> suffering from text editor fatigue and would rather not learn emacs or >> vim >> >> just to get J syntax coloring. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> John D. Baker >> >> [email protected] >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > >> > -- >> > regards, >> > ==================================================== >> > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 >> > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > > > -- > John D. Baker > [email protected] > -- John D. Baker [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
