Ubuntu's inbuilt text editor Gedit is quite good for quick coding.
I use the Python 3 highlighting for Nim but it would be good if we have one for
Nim too.
Or, is it already there?
yes, it can. You "just" need to get it into gedit's source code, send them a
patch.
Oh well, that "shouldn't" be hard? lol
I opened an issue in their repository but I am skeptical about them using the
.lang file, considering it's gtksourceview 2, which is a little bit outdated.
[https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/issues/284](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/issues/284)
> I am skeptical
I am skeptical too -- why should they care when people not even care to ship an
up to date file?
A never file is available here:
[https://github.com/StefanSalewski/NEd](https://github.com/StefanSalewski/NEd)
But it is old too, its from 2016. Was working well with GTK3 gedit un
Hmm turns out they want committed contributors who are willing to maintain the
.lang file. Which is honestly a fair ask, but I personally think contributing
to the Nim language server is more useful. Not sure if the gtksourceview based
editors play very well with it though.
No, the gtksourceview based editors Gedit, Aporia and NEd are really no
recommendation for Nim. Aporia was GTK2 only and has not been updated in the
last 4 years, Gedit has no Nim support at all, and NEd was written only as a
plain test for oldgtk3. And gtksourceview itself -- well no one has re