Hello,

I write code in Octave (a free Matlab clone) and I would like the source
files which have an extension .m to be recognized and automagically
highlighted in gedit. As of now I have to select Octave highlighting
myself every time when opening an octave source file.

I thought that creating a ~/.mime.types file with the contents:

# User MIME-TYPES and the extensions that represent them

text/x-octave m

This however is not working because when I look at the properties under
nautilus it is listed as "Objective-C source code". Any suggestions?

Thank you for your time.


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On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:59:58PM -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I write code in Octave (a free Matlab clone) and I would like the source
> files which have an extension .m to be recognized and automagically
> highlighted in gedit. As of now I have to select Octave highlighting
> myself every time when opening an octave source file.
>
> I thought that creating a ~/.mime.types file with the contents:
>
> # User MIME-TYPES and the extensions that represent them
>
> text/x-octave m
>
> This however is not working because when I look at the properties under
> nautilus it is listed as "Objective-C source code". Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you for your time.
A possible hack is to remove entries that refer to 'Objective-C' in
these databases and add yours. If the database search is finding the
objective-c entries it may stop searching and not see your entires.
hmm. I just remembered that you can have a local database entry to
override the system one -- like you showed--but I'm not sure how it
deals with each and the priority each gets.
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On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:59 -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I write code in Octave (a free Matlab clone) and I would like the source
> files which have an extension .m to be recognized and automagically
> highlighted in gedit. As of now I have to select Octave highlighting
> myself every time when opening an octave source file.
>
> I thought that creating a ~/.mime.types file with the contents:
>
> # User MIME-TYPES and the extensions that represent them
>
> text/x-octave m
>
> This however is not working because when I look at the properties under
> nautilus it is listed as "Objective-C source code". Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
>

Bluefish recognizes .m files, if this s.

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Am 2007-03-07 16:59:58, schrieb Zoho Vignochi:
> Hello,
>
> I write code in Octave (a free Matlab clone) and I would like the source
> files which have an extension .m to be recognized and automagically
> highlighted in gedit. As of now I have to select Octave highlighting
> myself every time when opening an octave source file.
>
> I thought that creating a ~/.mime.types file with the contents:

??? -- Why this?

"gedit" support already Syntax Highlighting of Sourcecode and if the
syntax for those "octave" files is currently not supported, create a
new syntax file and put it into your config directory.

I do not know how exactly, since I do not use Bloat-GNOME but I have
read that $USER can add new syntaxes there. Otherwise you must add
the syntax file to the systemwide syntax files.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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> "gedit" support already Syntax Highlighting of Sourcecode and if the
> syntax for those "octave" files is currently not supported, create a
> new syntax file and put it into your config directory.

Yes, that's true but what I want is for gedit to automagically
recognizes the source file as an octave source file. I can turn on the
source highlighting myself no problem.

So I guess what I am really asking is what is the debian way of adding
mime types?


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Zoho Vignochi <zoho.vignochi@gmail.com>:
> > "gedit" support already Syntax Highlighting of Sourcecode and if the
> > syntax for those "octave" files is currently not supported, create a
> > new syntax file and put it into your config directory.
>
> Yes, that's true but what I want is for gedit to automagically
> recognizes the source file as an octave source file. I can turn on the
> source highlighting myself no problem.
>
> So I guess what I am really asking is what is the debian way of adding
> mime types?

What's the Gnome/KDE/vim way of adding mime types so gedit will handle
them? Dunno. For me, MIME is mail. ~/.mailcap, ~/mutt/mailcap, ...

Is (G){vim,edit} supposed to grok MIME? I'll admit I'm confused.

Emacs?


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