Moved from 17.12.3 to 19.12.3, and now my highligthing doesn't work anymore

[Sven Brauch]

Hi,

maybe we should consider displaying this path somewhere? It is, I guess, one 
of the most asked questions about kate and since it changed ... 3 times? in 
the last few years, few resources answer it correctly.

I could imagine a small dialog under "Help -> Search paths", or just 
displaying the path in the settings dialog.

Best,
Sven


On Friday, 24 April 2020 11:02:13 CEST Philipp Hanselmann wrote:
> Hi Nibaldo!
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> Now it works. Great, now I can use 19.x.x :-) without a limitation.
> 
> 
> May the Kate documentation should be updated with this information.
> https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/applications/katepart/highlight.html
> 
> Or is there somewhere a more accurate webpage of this docu existing?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Philipp
> <https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/applications/katepart/highlight.html>
> 
> Am Fr., 24. Apr. 2020 um 05:05 Uhr schrieb Nibaldo González <
> 
> nibgonz at gmail.com>:
> > Hi Philipp!
> > The directory "$HOME/.local/share/katepart5/syntax/" corresponds to old
> > versions.
> > 
> > The XML files should be located in:
> >    - For the classic Kate installation:
> >    *"$HOME/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax/"*.
> >    - For Kate's Snap package:
> >    *"$HOME/snap/kate/current/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/synt
> >    ax/"* .
> >    - For Kate's Flatpak package:
> >    *"$HOME/.var/app/org.kde.kate/data/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax/"
> >    *
> >    .
> > 
> > Therefore, you must put your XML file in the directory corresponding to
> > the Snap package.
> > 
> > I tried it and it worked for me.
> > 
> > Regards!
> > 
> > El mar., 21 de abr. de 2020 a la(s) 12:04, Philipp Hanselmann (
> > 
> > philipp.hanselmann at gmail.com) escribió:
> >> Dear Kate developers
> >> 
> >> I wrote an own markup file(see attachment) and used this  the last years
> >> with Kate 17.12.3 and Ubuntu 18.04 successfully.
> >> 
> >> The file is saved under:
> >> ~/.local/share/katepart5/syntax/confluence.xml
> >> 
> >> Now I installed Kate 19.12.3 (snap package) and recognized that Kate
> >> can't find the markup anymore :-(.
> >> It tried to get it working, but finally I gave up and went back to Kate
> >> 17.x.x.
> >> Where should I put personal markup file instead under 19.12.3 ?
> >> 
> >> Thanks for your help!
> >> 
> >> Regards
> >> Philipp
> >> 
> >> 
> >> $ snap list | grep kate
> >> kate                             19.12.3                     60
> >> 
> >>  latest/stable    kde*
> >> 
> >> $ dpkg -l | grep kate
> >> ii  kate                4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1        amd64     powerful text
> >> editor
> >> ii  kate5-data     4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1        all          shared data
> >> files for Kate text editor
> > 
> > --
> > ---
> > Atte.
> > Nibaldo González