[SOLVED] How do I get Mousepad to do syntax colouring?

I wanted to add mousepad to my Slackware 14.2 system, so I got it from SlackBuilds.org.
Mousepad requires gtksourceview3, so I got that, too.
Gtksourceview3, in turn, requires glade, so I got that as well.

Then I built glade, which gave me ‘glade-3.18.3-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz’.
I used ‘installpkg’ to install the package, without any errors.

Next, I built gtksourceview3, which gave me ‘gtksourceview3-3.18.4-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz’.
Again, I used ‘installpkg’ to install the package, without any errors.

And finally, I built mousepad, which gave me ‘mousepad-0.4.1-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz’.
Once more, I used ‘installpkg’ to install the package, without any errors.

Mousepad works fine, except that it doesn’t do syntax colouring. It does correctly identify the file type—so, e.g., when I load a ‘*.c’ file, then “Document” ⇒ “Filetype” ⇒ “Source” ⇒ “C” is selected. The ‘*.lang’ files (including ‘c.lang’) are present in the ‘/usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs’ directory.

I went looking for some ‘configure’ option that might be needed to make mousepad activate syntax highlighting, but I didn’t find anything that rang a bell.

Does anyone have any idea what I am missing here?

Originally Posted by luvr I wanted to add mousepad to my Slackware 14.2 system, so I got it from SlackBuilds.org. Mousepad requires gtksourceview3, so I got that, too. Gtksourceview3, in turn, requires glade, so I got that as well. Then I built glade, which gave me ‘glade-3.18.3-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz’. I used ‘installpkg’ to install the package, without any errors. Next, I built [I]gtksourceview3,[/ I] which gave me ‘gtksourceview3-3.18.4-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz’. Again, I used ‘installpkg’ to install the package, without any errors. And finally, I built mousepad, which gave me ‘mousepad-0.4.1-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz’. Once more, I used ‘installpkg’ to install the package, without any errors.

I think you didn't install with sbopkg, it worth a look https://www.sbopkg.org/
It has 'sqg' that builds a queue file with all dependencies for SlackBuilds, then
with a command like 'sbopkg -R -k -i mousepad', sbopkg will ask if you want install
the queue or just the package.

Mousepad works fine, except that it doesn’t do syntax colouring. It does correctly identify the file type—so, e.g., when I load a ‘*.c’ file, then “Document” ⇒ “Filetype” ⇒ “Source” ⇒ “C” is selected. The ‘*.lang’ files (including ‘c.lang’) are present in the ‘/usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs’ directory. I went looking for some ‘configure’ option that might be needed to make mousepad activate syntax highlighting, but I didn’t find anything that rang a bell. Does anyone have any idea what I am missing here?

Hope this helps https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ld-4175633151/

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ld-4175633151/

Turned out that syntax colouring did work after all... Only silly little detail was the Colour scheme (on the “Edit” ⇒ “Preferences” dialogue) which was set to... “None”. I set it to “Classic” instead, et voilà: syntax colouring instantly showed up.

Originally Posted by Paulo2 Hope this helps https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ld-4175633151/

Originally Posted by Candelabrus https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ld-4175633151/

I had seen that thread, but considered it not applicable, since it discussed a different issue, where syntax colouring did visibly work, but the user wanted to add file type “*.SlackBuild” to be handled just like a shell script. Rereading the thread now that I have syntax colouring working, I thought that was a great idea, so now my SlackBuilds are nicely coloured as well.

So, no it didn’t help, but yes, it did help after all.