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kate supports syntax highlighting for so many programming languages I was surprised when I couldn't find Visual Basic on the list.
How can I get Visual Basic highlighting on kate?
I know some other text editors support this out of the box (gedit, vi), but I'm not interested on switching.
Links about brewing your own syntax highlighting module: One. Two.
EDIT (2017-01-08)
I have found this issue to be reported as a bug, but it has not been addressed by the development team. As the report is quite old, I'm assuming the only alternative is to write the syntax highlighting file myself and submitting it as a patch. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193064
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Specific issues with computer software, hardware or networking
(from the super user tour) includes my problem. I fail to see how it's off-topic. If it so, perhaps I can rephrase it. – Calculus Knight – 2016-11-13T18:48:10.163I certainly hope so. I've edited the question. Hopefully for the best. Let me know if it's not the case. – Calculus Knight – 2016-11-13T20:04:56.663
Less verbose, more to the point. Danks. – Calculus Knight – 2016-11-13T22:41:39.040