On Monday 11 of June 2018 10:09:15 David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 06/10/2018 09:37 PM, Michele Calgaro wrote:
> >> I believe the non-working one was an update from settings/configure
> >> kate/highlight/download,That is strange, in TDE there is no version
> >> 1.23 of javascript syntax highlight file. And
> >
> > not in https://www.kate-editor.org/syntax/, which is the official
> > website.
> >
> > Cheers Michele
>
> That is really strange, I have in the old copy:
>
> $ ls -al tde/tde/main/tdelibs/kate/data/javascript.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 10487 Jan 19  2014
> tde/tde/main/tdelibs/kate/data/javascript.xml
>
>
> $ head -n10 tde/tde/main/tdelibs/kate/data/javascript.xml
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE language SYSTEM "language.dtd">
> <!-- Author: Anders Lund <anders@...> //-->
> <!-- Minor changes: Joseph Wenninger <jowenn@...> //-->
> <!-- Full JavaScript 1.0 support by Whitehawk Stormchaser //-->
> <language name="JavaScript" version="1.23" kateversion="2.5"
> section="Scripts" extensions="*.js;*.kwinscript"
>           mimetype="text/x-javascript;application/x-javascript"
> indenter="cstyle" author="Anders Lund (anders@...), Joseph
> Wenninger (jowenn@...), Whitehawk Stormchaser (zerokode@...)"
> license=""> <highlighting>
>     <list name="keywords">
>
> Beyond that -- I cannot explain. I'm just glad the one that was there
> worked :)

https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/log/kate/data/javascript.xml

As you can see, version 1.23 was in repository beetween 2014-01-08 and 
2014-03-02. And then again beetween 2014-06-03 and 2014-07-28.

Cheers
-- 
Sl�vek