gedit syntax highlight

[oviorus]

Hello, I'm trying to make gedit automatically highlight *.as files when I open them. Here is what I've done so far:

1) I created a custom highlight spec in /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/actionscript3.lang. This is the head of the file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE language SYSTEM "language.dtd">
<language id="actionscript3" _name="ActionScript 3" version="1.0" _section="Sources">
<metadata>
<property name="mimetypes">text/x-actionscript3</property>
<property name="globs">*.as</property>
<property name="line-comment-start">//</property>
<property name="block-comment-start">/*</property>
<property name="block-comment-end">*/</property>
</metadata>
.
.
.

Now I can select it inside gedit with View > Highlight Mode > Sources > ActionScript 3 and it works fine.

2) I created a custom mimetype in the following locations with the following data

~/.mime.types

text/x-actionscript3 as

/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml

<mime-type type="text/x-actionscript3">
<comment>AS3 source code</comment>
<generic-icon name="text-x-generic"/>
<glob pattern="*.as"/>
<sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>
</mime-type>

~/.local/share/mime/packages/actionscript3.xml

<mime-info xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'>
<mime-type type="text/x-actionscript3">
<comment>ActionScript 3 Source</comment>
<!-- more translated comment elements -->
<glob pattern="*.as"/>
</mime-type>
</mime-info>

and restarted. Now both nautilus and gedit recognize .as files as text/x-actionscript3. However I still have to manually select ActionScript Highlight from the menu. Is there something else I can try?

Thank you for your time.
Heron Anzures.

[delfick]

hello,

You need to update the mime database

Third part of this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=742981 shows you how to do that

Also, you can find some syntax files here : http://code.google.com/p/flashbsm/so...anguage-specs/

[oviorus]

Thank you delfick. I just updated the mime database as you suggested, but nothing happened. I still have to manually pick the syntax highlight. I believe the mimetype is not the problem, because both nautilus and gedit recognize *.as files as text/x-actionscript3 as expected. The same goes for gnomevfs-info command. I don't know where the problem lies though. But thank you I'll keep looking.

Heron Anzures

[delfick]

hmmm, I'm not sure then........... sorry

[oviorus]

I found the problem!. Looks like there is something wrong in my actionscript3.lang file, maybe some deprecated tags or something, because I tried one of yours and it worked. It's strange though, that I was able to select it from inside gedit and reported no problems. Now I'll just try different highlight specs.
Thank you.
Heron Anzures.

[delfick]

I found the problem!

Awesome

. Looks like there is something wrong in my actionscript3.lang file, maybe some deprecated tags or something, because I tried one of yours and it worked. It's strange though, that I was able to select it from inside gedit and reported no problems.

weird....

Thank you.
Heron Anzures.

no probs

[matteosistisette]

Where's the lang definition you downloaded? I can't find it in any of the links mentioned above.

The one at http://code.google.com/p/flashbsm/so...anguage-specs/ is 2.0

thanks