WML Syntax Highlighting for KWrite

tvynr · Post by **tvynr** » November 1st, 2006, 9:27 pm

Hey, all. We just started working with the Wesnoth system to make an add-on and we are having a fantastic time of it! Having tried to mod other games in the past (Diablo II, for instance), I must say that the modularity and flexibility of this program is nothing short of astonishing.

That said, we've found ourselves editing quite a lot of WML over the past day or two. We've also found ourselves sitting for twenty minutes staring at a text file until we realized we were missing a quotation mark. As a result, I took some time today to investigate the color highlighting system for KWrite (since both of our development machines are Debian boxes running KDE). If you're a Linux user and want syntax-highlighting, you might get some use out of this file.

Just pop it into your ~/.kde/share/apps/katepart/syntax directory and open a .cfg file.

Note that this file has a high priority setting so that it overrides the Quake syntax highlighting that ships with Debian's KWrite package. Also, note that I just threw this together a couple hours ago and so it hasn't been very thoroughly tested. If you use it and find something wrong with it, please e-mail me or post here.

Cheers!

Website · Post by **Sapient** » November 1st, 2006, 10:29 pm

Cool, thanks.

tvynr · Post by **tvynr** » November 5th, 2006, 3:30 am

Update: fixed two small syntax highlighting bugs: nested macros now highlight properly, as do comments.

WildPenguin · Post by **WildPenguin** » November 5th, 2006, 5:26 am

It seems you've attached the the wrong file:

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% file wml.xml
wml.xml: broken symbolic link to `/static/projects/wesnoth/Massive Era Project/trunk/utilities/wml.xml'

tvynr · Post by **tvynr** » November 5th, 2006, 5:49 am

Both times, it would seem. I forgot to tell tar to deference the symlink. Sorry about that; thanks for pointing it out. I should look more carefully at file sizes next time.

Attached should be the real thing.