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Title:
Can Gedit default highlighting style be set for files without an extension?
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/2017/01/01/Can-Gedit-default-highlighting-style-be-set-for-files-without-an-extension_
Created:
January 1, 2017
Edited: January 1, 2017
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Steps taken
In my gedit, from the top bar menu, I select View, Highlight mode... and “Plain Text” is the default as shown below:
Using the file name “test.sample” and pasting in a few lines of Matlab code it still stays as “Plain Text” format unless I force it to “Matlab” format.
After saving and exiting I performed cp test.sample test.newbee followed by gedit test.newbee the default format is still “Plain Text”.
Next I created a new file using gedit called noextention. I typed a sentence, saved the new file and exited. Then I reopened the file using gedit and this is the result:
Notice the bottom bar of gedit’s window shows Plain Text option for highlighting.
Summary
This was done under Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel 4.4.0-53.
I can confirm that <property name="globs">*.m</property> exists within /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs/matlab.lang.
Because I can’t break my system like yours, unless we find something on your system to fix, I suggest reinstalling gedit after removing and purging all it’s files with apt-get.
Particulars about my version:
$ sudo apt install gedit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gedit is already the newest version (3.18.3-0ubuntu4).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.