Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 1/13/2020 10:03 AM, David Wright wrote: Once again, I can tell you nothing about Pluma. Pluma is a direct descendant of the Gnome 2 text editor, whose name currently escapes me.

Re: Progress {of a sort} - was [Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting]

2020-01-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, at 16:01, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/13/2020 07:57 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > [ *MASSIVE* snip ] Fuck off. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-13 Thread David Wright
On Mon 13 Jan 2020 at 07:03:05 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/13/2020 06:13 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, at 11:52, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > I was looking for a description of what Pluma was trying to accomplish > > > by their highlighting rules. > > > > Do you

Progress {of a sort} - was [Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting]

2020-01-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/13/2020 07:57 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: [ *MASSIVE* snip ] Put it another way, if you put just a handful of lines in a separate file, does that file get coloured the same way? I took that some steps further. The *observability* of the problem is dependent on at least font size, font fac

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-13 Thread David Wright
On Mon 13 Jan 2020 at 05:46:36 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/12/2020 01:20 PM, David Wright wrote: > > " " > > Please read post before replying. > That *INCLUDES* Subject. The only word in your subject line that I didn't specifically refer to was "Pluma". I haven't come across Pluma in

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, at 13:03, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/13/2020 06:13 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, at 11:52, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >> I was looking for a description of what Pluma was trying to accomplish > >> by their highlighting rules. > > > > Do you understand

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-13 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-13, Richard Owlett wrote: > > That is too detailed(ww?). It is similar to "not being able to see > forest for the trees". I'm afraid I took you at your word in light of your long and contentious record of rebuffing responders who don't. But damned if you do and damned if you don't,

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/13/2020 06:13 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, at 11:52, Richard Owlett wrote: I was looking for a description of what Pluma was trying to accomplish by their highlighting rules. Do you understand the purpose of syntax highlighting (in general)? Yes. Its specific goal is

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, at 11:52, Richard Owlett wrote: > I was looking for a description of what Pluma was trying to accomplish > by their highlighting rules. Do you understand the purpose of syntax highlighting (in general)? (It's to /aid/ a programmer, reducing the chance of them making silly

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/12/2020 07:40 AM, Curt wrote: On 2020-01-12, Richard Owlett wrote: I am NOT interested in adding any new features. What are the default rules for a file with extension 'sh'? TIA As pluma is a gedit fork as well as a gtk application I suppose it gets its syntax highlighting rules from h

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/12/2020 01:20 PM, David Wright wrote: " " Please read post before replying. That *INCLUDES* Subject.

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Jan 2020 at 06:59:07 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm attempting to understand a shell script. > Pluma is apparently highlighting it based on the file extension (which > is 'sh'). > > I thought I understood what its highlighting meant. > I didn't ;{ Then you might start at https://e

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-12 Thread ghe
On 1/12/20 5:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm attempting to understand a shell script. > to add highlighting which Pluma does not provide by default. A bit OT reply: vim does do highlighting that makes some sense (to me), in sh and Python, anyway. -- Glenn English

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-12 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-12, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I am NOT interested in adding any new features. > What are the default rules for a file with extension 'sh'? > TIA As pluma is a gedit fork as well as a gtk application I suppose it gets its syntax highlighting rules from here (on Stretch): /usr/share/gt

Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-12 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm attempting to understand a shell script. Pluma is apparently highlighting it based on the file extension (which is 'sh'). I thought I understood what its highlighting meant. I didn't ;{ I attempted to do a web search and got primarily hits on people wishing to add highlighting which Pluma