Syntax highlightin

Richard Dale Richard_Dale at tipitina.demon.co.uk
Fri Mar 17 14:52:34 GMT 2000


On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 07:28:14PM +0100, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > This is a major undertaking as we want to stay in sync with Jochen´s
> > sourcecode so we don´t get more bugs in than there already are. Changes
> > we´re doing are going most often into kwrite´s sourcecode as well, and
> > this would mean a major breaking in the code.
> 
> Could someone please explain how to create a syntax highlight for a language?
> 
> I want to add inform (www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/inform.html) highlighting to
> kwrite / kdevelop. There is already a vim highlighting file to base this on.

Please find attached the changes I needed to make for Objective-C highlighting.
That will tell you which files to hit, and then you'll need to 'do something
similar' for inform. From what Ralf Nolden says above, it may all need redoing
at some point though (oh dear).

-- Richard
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