On Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:14:23 GMT Keith Edmunds wrote:
> I've never used Kate (vim for me), but it sounds as if it is
> syntax-highlighting 'connect' in one file and not the other. That suggests
> either something else has changed so that 'connect' doesn't make sense, or
> there may be some non-visual problem with 'connect' (eg, an 8bit char in
> there or - silly examples - you've put "Connect" or "c0nnect" or something
> like that).
Kate does do syntax highlighting but it seems to base its decision on the file
extension rather than the shebang (which I note in the snippet is in line 3
and not the first line as it usually is).
> Do you know / can you find out what blue highlighting means? Or - shudder
> - can you open the file in (g)vim and see if it looks OK there?
Peter had renamed his file to 'subscriber.py.2' and Kate didn't know what to do
with a .2 file.
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