On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:59:58PM -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote: > Hello, > > I write code in Octave (a free Matlab clone) and I would like the source > files which have an extension .m to be recognized and automagically > highlighted in gedit. As of now I have to select Octave highlighting > myself every time when opening an octave source file. > > I thought that creating a ~/.mime.types file with the contents: > > # User MIME-TYPES and the extensions that represent them > > text/x-octave m > > This however is not working because when I look at the properties under > nautilus it is listed as "Objective-C source code". Any suggestions? > > Thank you for your time. A possible hack is to remove entries that refer to 'Objective-C' in these databases and add yours. If the database search is finding the objective-c entries it may stop searching and not see your entires. hmm. I just remembered that you can have a local database entry to override the system one -- like you showed--but I'm not sure how it deals with each and the priority each gets. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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