Enhancing gedit for PL/SQL Development
Most text editors allow customisation of syntax highlighting and the like, and having recently moved to using gedit, thought i'd enhance it a bit. In a fresh installation, it already has reasonable support for oracle based keywords, but could do with a bit of an update. The object that does the syntax highlighting is gtksourceview - depending on the version of gedit, either version 2 or 3. By going to the project page on gnome, you will see the howto for adding a new language: https://live.gnome.org/Gedit/NewLanguage . (Linux only) Since package source code is typically in files with the extension pks and pkb, it is first necessary to update the system to recognise that those files are of the mime type text/x-sql (or a custom one if you really want). So, create an xml file with the following: <mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info"> <mime-type type="text/x-sql"> <comment>SQL Source including P...