Bug 214658

Summary:	Prolog files highlighted as perl
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Vincent Verhoeven <verhoevenv>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	cullmann, jowenn
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Vincent Verhoeven 2009-11-15 15:22:03 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.2)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

When opening Prolog files (which share the .pl extension with Perl), the code is by default highlighted as if it were Perl.

Reproduce:
1. Create a file named "test.pl" with content like:
%This is Prolog!
cat(tom).
%And it's really fun when you start adding apostrophes!
mammal(X) :- cat(X).
2. Open file in Kate, syntax highlighting is completely off. User must traverse quite the menu structure to get it to highlight correctly and must do so for every file if she opened a lot of Prolog files.

Expected:
Syntax highlighting defaults to Prolog for Prolog files.

Comment 1 Joseph Wenninger 2009-11-19 13:31:55 UTC

Having the same file extension is bad. Does a mimetype exist for prolog files? Kate used additionally to the file extension the KDE mimetype system for determing what kind of file it is dealing with.

You can increase the priority of the highlighting so that it is favoured in the highlighting configuration.
Editor Component -> Open/Save -> Modes Filetypes -> Sources/Prolog
There you can add the .pl Extension and increase the priority

Comment 2 Vincent Verhoeven 2009-11-21 17:02:35 UTC

It seems KDE recognizes the files as Perl files (application/x-perl), which is also what xdg-mime gives (not sure that is relevant though).

I believe the correct mime type should be "text/x-prolog".

Perhaps I should just start giving my files .prolog extensions. I don't think that's the convention though, I've never encountered it before.

Manually adding the extension seems to fix most problems. Although I probably shouldn't try editing Perl files now. :)

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2010-02-16 18:49:27 UTC

:) Anyway, nothing kate can fix, if the mimetypes don't get fixed.