[Qt-creator] How to get syntax highlighting for CMakeLists.txt?

[Michael Jackson]

On Mar 28, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> On 28/03/13 13:03, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 27/03/13 12:59, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> When I open a CMakeLists.txt in Creator it pops up an information bar
>>> saying:
>>> 
>>> "A highlight definition was not found for this file. Would you like to
>>> try to find one?"
>>> 
>>> How do I get this to work? [...]
>>> 
>>> I'm on Qt Creator 2.7.0 with Qt 4.8.4 and KDE 4.10.1.
>> 
>> Today, it started working correctly on its own.  I didn't change
>> anything in the settings.
>> 
>> Well, that works.  Not complaining :-P
> 
> Sorry for the monologue folks, but I've come across another issue now. 
> After actually building the project, Creator now red-underlines some 
> lines in my CMakeLists.txt, even though there's nothing wrong with them.
> 
> Is this a known problem?


I have noticed that Creator will red line:

if ( something....

but NOT

if(something ....

Note the difference in spaces. Both are Valid CMake codes.
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Mike Jackson