New syntax highlighting for gedit

Hi,

For those of you that prefer using gedit, I wrote a new HL file for you.

Just copy ngc.lang.txt file to either (REMOVE THE .txt EXTENSION)
/usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs/
or
~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs/ (you can also use 2.0 instead)



and GCode.xml (colors) in
/usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/
or
~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/
then restart gedit, open a ngc file and select GCode color scheme



here what it looks like



If you do not like the colors I selected, try to find a scheme you like or edit GCode.xml by inspecting ngc.lang to see how colors are mapped

Best regards
Fernand

I'm using Gedit on LinuxMint 17.3 but don't see the directories you mention.

JT

I don't have Mint, but i believe it is shipped with GTK2 so you need to look for /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/ directory

LinuxMint 17.3 has both /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0 and /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0. Let me try that and see what I get.

Edit: after some experiments I determined that /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0 is the correct place however my G code does not look like Ferns example.




JT

You need to set the color scheme as well (in the preference menu)

Now that looks much better and I even like it!

JT

It's working great for me. Thank you.

hello FERN
got it installed. Works as promised.

Thank you so much! :Lachen:

Tip: For Windows users
the path to the directories is called here:
Storage location of the program then \ share \ gtksourceview-2.0 \ language-specs
for the file: ngc.lang

and

Storage location of the program then \ share \ gtksourceview-2.0 \ styles for the file: GCode.xml

Thank you so much to FernV for this. It is just what I was looking for and the old links from the LinuxCNC manual were dead.

Two comments though, from this extremely inexpert user.
The first is that in my version of UbuntuStudio 24.04 with Kde both the language-specs and the styles directories are in /usr/share/libgedit-gtksourceview-300/
The second is that after I put Gcode.xml into the styles directory, highlighting did not work until I renamed Gcode.xml to ngc.xml
Now it  works great!
thanks, Jonathan