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nnibags
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Re: WML Syntax Highlighting for Kate/KWrite

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The patch was sent!
As information, the KDE KSyntaxHighlighting framework is in this repository: https://phabricator.kde.org/source/syntax-highlighting/ (file: data/syntax/wml.xml; test file: autotests/input/test.pbl)

If someone wants to send an improvement to the WML highlighter (or other), the documentation to send patches with Arcanist is here: https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Phabricator

Also, the documentation for creating/modifying syntax highlighting files (xml) is: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/applicat ... light.html

The KDE Frameworks libraries (to which KSyntaxHighlighting belongs) are relased monthly: https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Frameworks
Finally (it doesn't hurt to say it), after compiling KSyntaxHighlighting (cmake), to generate the auto-test files (reference, html & folding) use: make test && ./autotests/update-reference-data.sh
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Re: WML Syntax Highlighting for Kate/KWrite

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I've been using Kate to edit wml for a while but only discovered that it has a wml mode when I made a .pbl file. By default kate uses something called Nagios mode for .cfg files and I never knew. To change it I set WML priority from 0 to 1 in the settings and now it loads .cfg with wml mode on. It's fantastic, wish I had found it sooner.
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