At 2:27 PM -0500 9/23/05, Mike McCarty wrote: >Robert Cahn wrote: >> I have 2 files, calculate.c and beforecalc.c. They have very similar >> contents yet when I edit both one is nicely hightlighted with colors to >> indicate strings, comments, etc. and the other is entirely black and white. >> What must I do to turn on the formatting for the B&W file? ... >On a similar note, how does one disable that feature, permanently? I take it that just disabling it in the prefs isn't good enough? You might try moving "/usr/share/gtksourceview-1.0/language-specs" (or whatever version you have). Then all apps that use GTKSourceView as the underlying editing engine won't know how to do syntax hiliting. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>