UBUNTU: highlighting in Gedit

[Kirk]

I was inspired by a previous post. Unfortunately I wasnt able to find the file and so I had to create my own. To enable highliting of great cow basic files in gedit copy the following file to $HOME/.local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/cow.lang

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

->
<language id="cow" _name="Cow" version="2.0" _section="Sources">
  <metadata>
    <property name="mimetypes">text/x-gcbsrc</property>
    <property name="globs">*.gcb</property>
    <property name="line-comment-start">'</property>
  </metadata>

  <styles>
    <style id="keyword" _name="Keyword" map-to="def:keyword"/>
    <style id="type" _name="Data Type" map-to="def:type"/>
    <style id="preprocessor" _name="CompilerDirective" map-to="def:preprocessor"/>
    <style id="storage-class" _name="TimeUnits" map-to="def:type"/>
    <style id="string" _name="String" map-to="def:string"/>
<style id="decimal" _name="Decimal" map-to="def:decimal"/>
<style id="comment" _name="Comment" map-to="def:comment"/>

  </styles>

  <default-regex-options case-sensitive="false"/>

  <definitions>

<context id="cow">
      <include>
<context ref="keyword"/>
<context ref="type"/>
<context ref="preprocessor-keyword"/>
<context ref="storage-class"/>
<context ref="string"/>
<context ref="number"/>
<context ref="comment"/>

      </include>
    </context>

<context id="keyword" style-ref="keyword">
      <keyword>ReadAD</keyword>
      <keyword>ADoff</keyword>
      <keyword>EEPROM</keyword>
      <keyword>EPRead</keyword>
      <keyword>EPWrite</keyword>
      <keyword>ProgramErase</keyword>
      <keyword>ProgramWrite</keyword>
      <keyword>ProgramRead</keyword>
      <keyword>CALL EVRY</keyword>
      <keyword>DO</keyword>
      <keyword>END</keyword>
      <keyword>EXIT SUB</keyword>
      <keyword>For</keyword>
<keyword>to</keyword>
<keyword>Next</keyword>
      <keyword>Gosub</keyword>
<keyword>Sub</keyword>

<keyword>Return</keyword>
      <keyword>Goto</keyword>
      <keyword>If</keyword>
<keyword>then</keyword>

      <keyword>Repeat</keyword>
      <keyword>Select</keyword>
      <keyword>Wait</keyword>
      <keyword>Print</keyword>
      <keyword>Locate</keyword>
      <keyword>Put</keyword>
      <keyword>Get</keyword>
      <keyword>cls</keyword>
      <keyword>LCDInt</keyword>
      <keyword>LCDHex</keyword>
      <keyword>LCDWord</keyword>
      <keyword>KeypadData</keyword>
      <keyword>KeypadRaw</keyword>
      <keyword>PWMOff</keyword>
      <keyword>PWMOn</keyword>
      <keyword>PWMout</keyword>
      <keyword>HPWM</keyword>
      <keyword>DisplayValue</keyword>
      <keyword>DiusplayChar</keyword>
      <keyword>InitSer</keyword>
      <keyword>SerSend</keyword>
      <keyword>SerReceive</keyword>
      <keyword>SPIMode</keyword>
      <keyword>SPITransfer</keyword>
      <keyword>Tone</keyword>
      <keyword>ShortTone</keyword>
      <keyword>Rotate</keyword>
      <keyword>Set</keyword>
      <keyword>Dim</keyword>
<keyword>As</keyword>
      <keyword>Dir</keyword>
<keyword>In</keyword>
<keyword>Out</keyword>
      <keyword>Pot</keyword>
      <keyword>PULSEOUT</keyword>
      <keyword>PEEK</keyword>
<keyword>POKE</keyword>
<keyword>ReadTable</keyword>
<keyword>InitTimer</keyword>
<keyword>InitTimer1</keyword>
<keyword>StartTimer</keyword>
<keyword>ClearTimer</keyword>
<keyword>StopTimer</keyword>
    </context>

  <context id="type" style-ref="type">
      <keyword>Bit</keyword>
      <keyword>Byte</keyword>
      <keyword>Word</keyword>
      <keyword>String</keyword>
     </context>

<define-regex id="preproc-start">^\s*#\s*</define-regex>

<context id="preprocessor-keyword" style-ref="preprocessor" end-at-line-end="true">
     <start extended="true">
        \%{preproc-start}
        (chip|config|define|def|include|script|int|startup|mem)
        \b
      </start>
    </context>

  <context id="storage-class" style-ref="storage-class">
      <keyword>us</keyword>
      <keyword>10us</keyword>
      <keyword>ms</keyword>
      <keyword>10ms</keyword>
      <keyword>S</keyword>
      <keyword>M</keyword>
      <keyword>H</keyword>
      </context>

<context id="string" style-ref="string" end-at-line-end="true">
      <start>"</start>
      <end>"</end>
      <!- no escapes possible except for "" = literal "   ->
    <include>
         <context id="string-esc" style-ref="escaped-character" extend-parent="true">
            <match>""</match>
         </context>
       </include>
    </context>

  <context id="number" style-ref="decimal">
      <match extended="true">
        (?&lt;!)
        *(E?*)?
        (?!)
      </match>
    </context>

   <context id="comment" style-ref="comment" end-at-line-end="true">
      <start>'</start>
   </context>

  </definitions>
</language>

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Thanks!!

I had one, but this is much better, very complete.

Best regards.