Creating your own syntax highlighting in GEdit?

Kredns picture Kredns · Apr 20, 2009 · Viewed 20k times · Source

How do you add a 'keyword' to the GEdit list of keywords? I basiclly want to make the printf function look like a keyword.

printf("Hello World\n");

Answer

Jeremy Ruten picture Jeremy Ruten · Apr 20, 2009

GEdit uses GtkSourceView for its syntax highlighting. You should be able to find the c.lang file it uses to highlight C code by typing a command like this:

$ locate gtksourceview | grep /c.lang

Once you find the lang file, open it up in a text editor (it's an XML file) and near the bottom you'll see a list of keywords which you should be able to add printf to.