Txt2tags and gedit

Stefano D’Archino told us about his new creation: the txt2tags language file for gedit.

His instructions follows:

  • Put the file in /usr/share/gtksourceview-1.0/language-spec
  • Adjust the colors for the syntax in Gedit preferences

Zoom.Quiet, a long time txt2tags user, gave us a nice screenshot of his gedit using this file:

txt2tagsĀ gedit

FYI: gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. I know you already knew that, but… You know :)

3 Responses to “Txt2tags and gedit”

  1. Felix Says:

    If you do not have super user rights or want to enable syntax highlighting just for yourself, then copy the .lang-file to
    ~/.gnome2/gtksourceview-1.0/language-specs/
    .
    It’s explained here: http://textmethod.com/wiki/ReStructuredTextToolsForGedit

    You also can create a new mime-type. Check out my howto:
    file:///media/srv/home/dfm/web/tiddlywiki.html#%5B%5BGedit-Highlighting%20for%20Text2Tags%5D%5D

  2. Felix Says:

    oops. wrong link. this one’s working now:
    http://www.felixhummel.de/tiddlywiki.html#%5B%5BGedit-Highlighting%20for%20Text2Tags%5D%5D

  3. leonardof Says:

    Current Gedit uses gtksourceview 2.x, which luckly is backwards compatible with version 1.x language specifications like this one.

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