On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:15:28 -0800 (PST) Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote: > To me the root problem of your description is why kate is not detecting the file type. >I have seen this often enough and is frustrating. Before submitting an enhancement >request, perhaps browse the code to learn how detection functions. Possibly an extra >if-then statement or equivalent is all that is needed to address some of these shortcomings. I believe the detection is by file extension (ran into this when adding WesnothML to the list of available highlight types in an older version that didn't have it by default--its extension is also sometimes used by . . . I think it was QuakeScript).