Version: 3.2.2 (using 4.2.2 (KDE 4.2.2), Kubuntu packages) Compiler: cc OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.28-11-generic Would be nice if there was highlighting for *.groovy files. See http://groovy.codehaus.org/ Asa starting point, there are some packages out there which support Groovy syntax already.
hi, malte. thanks for the suggestion and your interest in kate! it's probably best if the syntax highlighter is written by a person who know the groovy language. if you want to have a look yourself, try following this guide: http://kate-editor.org/article/writing_a_kate_highlighting_xml_file if you get stuck, try writing to the kwrite-devel mailing list.
Thanks for the link, I might have a shot when I've got some spare time.
If you get time, submit patch, else closed here atm.
Do you have an up-to-date howto on writing syntax highlighters? The link from comment 1 is dead.
http://kate-editor.org/2005/03/24/writing-a-syntax-highlighting-file/ http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/kate/katehighlight-system.html (German version: http://docs.kde.org/stable/de/kdebase-runtime/kate/katehighlight-system.html )
Meh. I didn't work on any Groovy project for a while and just noticed that I don't know the syntax specialities good enought anymore :) Geshi has support for Groovy, maybe it could be used as a starting point? I'm currently lacking the time unfortunately. http://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/geshi/groovy.php?revision=2430&view=markup
This wish is older than bug #329320, but that one already references a mostly working highlighting file, while this one does not. Therefore closing this as DUP and not vice versa. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 329320 ***