On 03/10/2012 09:09 AM, E. Liddell wrote:
> 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).

  It is not only by file extension, but also by file pattern. Thinking about it,
Darrell is on to the root cause of the problem. The detection does not seem to
be using any 'file <filename>' information. Archlinux uses PKGBUILD scripts as
the build scripts for building packages. PKGBUILD is nothing more than a special
name for a bash script. In order to have unique filenames in kate, I append the
trinity package name to the end so that I clean list, eg:

PKGBUILD-tde-arts
PKGBUILD-tde-avahi-tqt
PKGBUILD-tde-dbus-1-tqt
PKGBUILD-tde-dbus-tqt
PKGBUILD-tde-libart-lgpl
PKGBUILD-tde-libcaldav
PKGBUILD-tde-libcarddav
PKGBUILD-tde-tdeartwork
<snip>

  For these build scripts, I can configure a highlighting rule so that
kate/kwrite properly recognize them as bash scripts by including ';PKGBUILD*;'
in Configure kate -> Editor -> Highlighting -> Properties -> file extensions.

  For special cases, where there is some consistent filename patter, this works,
but kate should be smart enough to parse the 'head <filename>' information and
at least look for a '#!<something>' or something similar. I'll have time to dig
into this further once I get the remaining TDE build scripts done. That has been
my big push lately. You guys don't have any other thoughts on 'tdeutils' or
'tdepim' failures I'm seeing do you :)




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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.