[MonoDevelop] Syntax Highlighting doesn't work

[Andy B]

> I don't think it's fragile. It works for most of people. Syntax
> highlight is not implemented by MonoDevelop but by gtksourceview. Do you
> get syntax highlight if you open your files with GEdit?

If it works for *most* people then that's still a little fragile -
especially when I'm one of the people for whom it doesn't work!  And on two
different linux distros (fresh installs, too).

You are right - Gedit doesn't have syntax highlighting either!  I didn't
have gedit installed, used yast to install it and verified this.

I am running under KDE.

I don't have a directory called ...gtksourceview-1.0/language-specs/ in my
home directory either - maybe I need to be running gnome for all this to
work?

Cheers
Andy Bulka
www.atug.com/andypatterns



-----Original Message-----
From: Lluis Sanchez [mailto:lluis at ximian.com] 
Sent: Friday, 2 June 2006 4:22 AM
To: abulka at netspace.net.au
Cc: monodevelop-list at lists.ximian.com
Subject: Re: [MonoDevelop] Syntax Highlighting doesn't work

El dj 01 de 06 del 2006 a les 18:07 +1000, en/na Andy B va escriure:
> I've installed mono / monodevelop 0.11 in linux using the linux-installer
> and monodevelop installs, runs and builds things ok, but the syntax
> highlighting doesn't work.  When I go to options, syntax highlighting, the
> combo box is empty, and if I fiddle with anything on that dialog
monodevelop
> locks up.
> 
> I've installed under suse 10.1 and fedora 5 - same problem.
> I've installed older versions of mono - same problem.
> 
> Looking up the list, other people have had the same problem.  Someone said
> it was to do with mime stuff being wrecked - I reinstalled/updated
anything
> to do with mime using the package manager but this did not fix anything
for
> me.
> 
> Monodevelop without syntax highlighting doesn't feel quite right!
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to get syntax highlighting working?

You shouldn't need to do anything special to make it work. It should
work just fine in Suse 10.1 (it does for me).

> And why is monodevelop so fragile in this respect?  Syntax completion
works
> nicely (in color) but not the overall syntax highlighting.

I don't think it's fragile. It works for most of people. Syntax
highlight is not implemented by MonoDevelop but by gtksourceview. Do you
get syntax highlight if you open your files with GEdit?

Lluis.