Just in case the "complain about the colors" comment wasn't tongue in cheek ...

See the instructions for reusing the edit.xml from J GtkIde in gedit
in one of my previous posts in this thread or follow the instructions
here to develop your own color scheme:

http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DevonMcCormick/GTK/CustomizeTermOrEditWindow

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:50 PM, John Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>>> >>
>>> >> --
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>>
>>
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