Where are Kate syntax files stored?

Sat Aug 5 16:31:02 BST 2017

On Saturday August 05 2017 17:24:13 Kevin Krammer wrote:

>I think they are part of the KTextEditor Framework now, Kate and friends 
>depend on.

The SyntaxHighlighting framework, nowadays. AFAIK the system location for the highlighthing files is
$prefix/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax . User-specific copies (also those downloaded with Kate's built-in updater) are stored in ~/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax .

R.