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Danielsan

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Registered: 2017-11-22

Posts: 89

Adding a markup syntax to Mousepad!

Hi guys,

is there any method, besides opening a bug request, to add a mark-up syntax to Mousedpad?
I'd love adding support for GemText the Gemini mark-up which is pretty trivial itself!

Thanks!

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KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 689

Re: Adding a markup syntax to Mousepad!

Hi.

Mousepad uses a GNOME library for syntax highlighting. It's called GtkSourceView. Besides opening a new issue, you can write your own language definition. You can use one from many of the supported markup languages as a reference point. You can list them with the following command:

grep -rl 'section="Markup"' /usr/share/gtksourceview*/language-specs/

Last edited by KBar (2022-07-27 17:56:03)

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Danielsan

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Registered: 2017-11-22

Posts: 89

Re: Adding a markup syntax to Mousepad!

Thank you!

The #xfce-dev IRC Channel just redirect me here.

I hope that modifying an existing file can be enough.

I keep this thread to keep everyone posted!

Last edited by Danielsan (2022-07-27 19:48:24)

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ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Adding a markup syntax to Mousepad!

Here is a draft one that didn't get merged into gtksourceview. Perhaps you can try it out/use it as a base?

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Danielsan

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Registered: 2017-11-22

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Re: Adding a markup syntax to Mousepad!

Here is a draft one that didn't get merged into gtksourceview. Perhaps you can try it out/use it as a base?

Ooh! Cool!

This surely will help a lot!

Thanks!

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ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Adding a markup syntax to Mousepad!

Seems to work fine in gtksourceview4 - seems to have some problems in gtksourceview-3.0. To use it, paste the content of that merge request into ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-4/language-specs (create the directory if it doesn't exit) and restart mousepad. The entry will show up in the "Markup" section.

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Danielsan

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Re: Adding a markup syntax to Mousepad!

Indeed, doesn't not work in gtksourceview-3.0 and it is not trivial as I hoped, not at all...

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