This is from several helps and how-tos:
First, make same safe-guarding:
sudo cp /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml
/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml_backup
Then, open freedeskop.org.xml to edit mime:
sudo gedit /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml
Now, you should find the end of one mime-specification and the
beginning of next. I did mine just after Python Python
mime-specification. Last two lines are:
<glob pattern="*.py"/>
</mime-type>
And the next mime-type begins with:
<mime-type type=SOMETHING BLAH>
So, between the </mime-type> and <mime-type type=SOMETHING BLAH>
insert this:
<mime-type type="text/x-R">
<sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>
<comment>R code</comment>
<comment xml:lang="az">R kodu</comment>
<comment xml:lang="bg">??? ?? R</comment>
<comment xml:lang="cs">K?d R</comment>
<comment xml:lang="cy">C?d R</comment>
<comment xml:lang="de">R-Befehle</comment>
<comment xml:lang="el">??????? R</comment>
<comment xml:lang="eo">R-kodo</comment>
<comment xml:lang="es">C?digo R</comment>
<comment xml:lang="eu">R kodea</comment>
<comment xml:lang="fi">R-koodi</comment>
<comment xml:lang="fr">code R</comment>
<comment xml:lang="hu">R-k?d</comment>
<comment xml:lang="it">Codice R</comment>
<comment xml:lang="ja">R ???</comment>
<comment xml:lang="ko">R ??</comment>
<comment xml:lang="ms">Kod R</comment>
<comment xml:lang="nb">R-kildekode</comment>
<comment xml:lang="nl">R-code</comment>
<comment xml:lang="nn">R-kode</comment>
<comment xml:lang="no">R-kildekode</comment>
<comment xml:lang="pl">Kod R</comment>
<comment xml:lang="pt">c?digo R</comment>
<comment xml:lang="pt_BR">C?digo R</comment>
<comment xml:lang="sq">Kod R</comment>
<comment xml:lang="sr">R ????</comment>
<comment xml:lang="sv">R-kod</comment>
<comment xml:lang="uk">??? R</comment>
<comment xml:lang="zh_CN">R ??</comment>
<glob pattern="*.R"/>
<glob pattern="*.r"/>
</mime-type>
Finally, update mime:
sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/
That's it!
Best,
PM
Matthieu Stigler wrote:
I would like to recomment Gnome's editor: GEdit. It has some really
nice Plugins, for LaTeX, Python etc. It also has Rgedit among other
goodies. Go and check: http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins
Good luck! And: Hello to Debian! :-)
PM
Btw, did anyone succeed in having gedit recognize .R files?
For me (Ubuntu 9.10), it does only with .r files, using then the
appropriate code coloration mode, but not with .R files... Do yo
uhave the same problem? And found a solution?
Thanks!
Matthieu
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