Castle Paradox

[chronoboy]

If anybody here uses Linux or even KDE on Windows or Mac, you may have seen a powerful editor called Kate which supports syntax highlighting.

I am attempting to build a syntax file for HamsterSpeak, it is a basic XML file, and I do believe there is a much easier way to auto-generate it. Looking at how the documentation is generated. For the OHR devs reading this with SVN write access. Would you be-able to make the next release of OHR contain a auto-built script in the docs folder for syntax highlighting? I so believe Gedit, GNOME's default editor also supports highlighting which may also be a good addition to this for those Ubuntu users out there.

This is what I got so far for the katepart syntax plugin, but it seems to have a glitch here and there and does not yet support every command(hope to automate this process soon)

http://c0018321.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/hamsterspeak.xml

Katepart is used in both Kate and Kwrite, other editors may exist out there with support for this type of syntax file as well.

I'll take a look at how the documentation is auto-generated and see if I can work with that code and slightly modify it to auto-magically make a syntax highlight file for kpart. I may also consider making one for Gedit as well.

In the end, why re-invent the wheel and create a separate editor ourselves to edit HamsterSpeak when other extend-able editors exist which can easily add support for HamsterSpeak? Kate even supports running Command line options and capturing and parsing it's output. Kate should also be-able to run on Windows and Mac, as KDE4 is now available on those platforms.

http://windows.kde.org/

Through the KDE-Installer for windows, one should be-able to choose specific components. Ubuntu users can simply 'apt-get install kate'.

On a Linux install, place the above XML inside: $HOME/.kde/share/apps/katepart/syntax

I have to try and run KDE on Windows to verify it's file path and ease of use. However, I will look into this.

EDIT: Kate can be easily installed via the Windows.KDE.org Installer. It will need to download 40 packages of which are about 100MB in size. After it is installed, it works flawlessly in Windows and I even tested my HamsterSpeak.xml file, which I will update soon. I will keep the URL in this post the same for future updates of the syntax file.

Under windows, Kate's syntax can be placed here: C:\Doc and Settings\Your username\Application Data\.kde\share\apps\katepart\syntax

Basically, on both Linux and Windows the KDE setting folder is identical.
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[Bob the Hamster]

That is cool. I have very little with KDE or Kate, as I always use Gnome on my system.

As for Gedit, that uses GtkSourceView for its syntax highlighting. I have a syntax highlighter xml file for that here: hamsterspeak.lang

Unfortunately I haven't had time to figure out how to make gedit actually use custom language files, I was just using it with HamsterWhisper which also happens to use GtkSourceEdit.

I don't understand what file you are asking us to autogenerate. If you are trying to get a list of commands, can't you just parse them out of plotdict.hsd?

[Bagne]

Is TextWrangler able to do this too?
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