LaTeX files highlighted as Octave instead of LaTeX

[Matthias Metzger]

Binary package hint: gedit

Since I upgraded to Hardy, in gedit all my existent *.tex-files are highlighted by default as "Octave" instead of "LaTeX".
Otherwise, when I save new *.tex-files the LaTeX-syntax highlighting is automatically applied.
Can I get back the automatical syntax highlighting for "LaTeX" on my existent *.tex-files?

Thanks
Matthias

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 13 13:20:51 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
Package: gedit 2.22.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, I've tried to reproduce this with a latex file i have and it works fine It got highlighted as a latex file, can you attach one of those files to the report? thanks you.

[Matthias Metzger (macellarius)]

Hi,

I think I just found out what the problem is. In almost every of my .tex files I have a comment on the first lines like

line 1: % Essay by Matthias Metzger
line 2: % Date: 08-03-26
line 3:
line 4: \documentclass[]{}...

When I open these files the syntax isn't highlighted, even when I save them once more.
But when I remove the comment and save them, the syntax is highlighted.
I found two "old" files without comment at the beginning and there the highlighting works perfect.
Well, I installed for testing purposes a latex-plugin for gedit (http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/LaTeXPlugin) and that also detects the "commented" files and highlights them as .tex-files.
I attach a file with such a comment, that isn't highlighted.

Regards
Matthias Metzger

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524802

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

this seems to be working fine now with 2.24 may you confirm? thanks.

[Matthias Metzger (macellarius)]

yes, it's working fine now. thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks, marking it as fixed then.