Where are Kate syntax files stored?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 05/08/17 18:31, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> 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 .

That directory doesn't exist. In fact, this:

   $ find / -name "*syntax*"

doesn't find anything relevant.

There's also nothing in my ~/.local directory.