I have sent and email to the GTkSourceView mailing list upstream requesting that the IDL lang file be added to the package so fingers crossed.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gtksourceview2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/172906 Title: Gedit doesn't recognise IDL syntax highlighting Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome: Invalid Status in GtkSourceView Widget: Expired Status in “gtksourceview2” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gedit Gedit doesn't offer syntax highlighting for IDL scripts (i.e., .pro files). An IDL highlighting option seems to be available but enabling it (View -> Highlighting Mode --> Sources) doesn't do anything. I'm currently using Ubuntu 10.10 but have had the same problem since 7.04. btw, It works automatically in Kate IDL: http://ittvis.com/idl/ GDL: http://gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/172906/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp