[Qt-creator] qt-creator fails to highlight matlab (*.m) files

[erik.verbruggen at nokia.com]

On Jan 26, 2012, at 2:47, ext Coda Highland wrote:

> Maybe Creator is treating .m files as Objective-C? I don't have a way
> to check this right now but it seems that .m might be getting nabbed
> by the C parser instead of the generic one.

Yes, .m and .mm are treated as Objective-C(++), as you can see in CppEditor.mimetypes.xml. You can try to override it in the preferences under mimetypes. If that doesn't work, then please file a feature request.

-- Erik.


> /s/ Adam
> 
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Thomas Gahr <ml at dadommas.de> wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> Is it possible that qt-creator (2.3.1 and git 4a43336a from Jan. 11) support
>> for kate-highlighting files is not complete? It fails to highlight matlab files
>> correctly while kate has no problems.
>> Is there any way to debug this?
>> I tried attaching with GDB in TextEditor/GenericHighlighter/manager.cpp:139:
>>        try {
>>            reader.parse(source);
>>        } catch (HighlighterException &) {
>>            definition.clear();         //here
>>        }
>> to see if there was an error parsing matlab.xml but this does not seem to be
>> the case.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Thomas
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Erik Verbruggen
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