content-based highlighting selection?

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2015-02-26 10:22, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> This is probably more of a Kate question,

Yes :-).

> but I'll try here first: is the highlighting selection based on 
> content analysis, and if so, is there a way to add patterns to that 
> mechanism? Use case: files without extension that are written in
> Tcl, and (most all) have a token for vi, ft=tcl which could be used
> to activate the appropriate highlighter.

It sounds like you might find a kate modeline useful. If you add e.g. '#
kate: hl bash;' to the beginning/end of a file, it will be highlighted
as, in this case, bash, regardless of what the extension / mimetype /
etc. would otherwise select.

Only the first and last few lines are considered for modelines.

-- 
Matthew