I apologize: The first sentence of my last comment is inaccurate. I was able 
to reproduce the error with very few characters and as little as one line. 
   Also, I did another test: I typed a shell script comment line in the first 
line of code, ran the external command, and checked the results. To my 
surprise, the highlight mode was switched appropriately--to Scripts-->sh.
   This indicates that after running certain external commands that modify the 
original file, gedit automatically re-detects the syntax based on the first two 
lines of a document. Thus, it makes sense that it kept switching to "C" 
highlighting mode, since Java and C have the same basic syntax. 
   This isn't exactly a bug--just a missing feature: gedit could be a little 
bit smarter about how it re-detects the syntax after running such commands on 
the document--all it needs to do is check to see if the current highlighting 
mode is appropriate _before_ it tries to change it to the best choice--since 
the user may well have already selected the correct highlighting mode, either 
explicitly (by manually changing the setting) or implicitly (by choosing a 
certain file extension).

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"Highlight Mode" reset after using "External Tools" plugin
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346592
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