Re: [open-cobol-list] Kate editor Cobol syntax xml file

[boscagarda-programming]

Mr. Bob,

Thank you very much for this. I ran it right away and it worked great. The directory is exactly the same on ubuntu. Much appreciated. Also you just introduced me to Kate, it looks pretty cool.

Thank you kindly and best regards,
Joseph James Frantz

Bob Willan <address@hidden> wrote:
>  I created a Cobol syntax highlighter xml file for Kate a while back, but 
> so far as I can tell the maintainers still haven't bothered to include it 
> with new versions of Kate (the KDE Editor).  I've attached it as a gzip 
> file to save space.
>
> To install it, just copy it to /usr/share/apps/katepart/syntax (on my 
> Mandriva machine, at least, it might be somewhere else on Ubuntu).  It 
> will show up as a choice under 'Sources' in the tools/highlighting 
> submenu.
>
> I also have an XEmacs Cobol
>  highlighting file that works decently if you 
> want (I use Emacs far more than Kate, myself, but its got a longer 
> learning curve than a menu-driven GUI editor like Kate).
>
> Bob Willan