Friday, January 6, 2012

Mathematica programming language syntax highlighting in kate

I've had enough from trying to program in Mathematica's Notebook GUI interface, so I decided I'd use kate now. Sadly, it doesn't have syntax highlighting for Mathematica by default. Thus, I created a simple implementation for this.

If you want to use it, just download this file and put it in /usr/share/apps/katepart/syntax/mathematica.xml (change directory as required).
Posted by scummos at 6:06 PM
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  1. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2012 at 4:05 PM

    Awesome job, thanks!

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  2. AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 4:24 PM

    Perfect!
    This is exactly what I need!
    But how can I select the 'Mathematica-mode' in Kate. After copying your file into the /usr/share/apps/katepart/syntax/ directory I can't find how I can enable the Mathematica syntax highlighting in Kate?

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  3. scummosJune 20, 2012 at 10:52 PM

    If you copied it to the right location and restarted kate, it should automatically use the mode for files with the right extension... if not, click Tools -> Highlighting -> Scientific -> Mathematica.

    Cheers

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    1. AnonymousJune 21, 2012 at 4:05 PM

      I fixed it, just by deleting the empty lines at the beginning.

      Cheers

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    2. scummosJune 21, 2012 at 4:10 PM

      Fine -- but the file I pasted doesn't have empty lines, you probably added them on copying ;p
      Optimally you can just click "download raw" and save the file, that's safe. :)

      Good luck with it!

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  4. AnonymousAugust 14, 2012 at 10:59 AM

    Thank you so much, this is great!

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  5. AnonymousMarch 26, 2013 at 8:29 PM

    A really great file! Just what I needed.

    Is there a chance to add a different color for variables?

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    1. scummosMarch 26, 2013 at 9:09 PM

      Very difficult since this is semantic information -- it's not easy to know which of the words is a variable and which is not. There is no simple rule to determine it. If you wanted to do that, you'd need a parser and static analyzer for the mathematica language, which is a lot of work.

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  6. RickNovember 4, 2013 at 5:26 PM

    It seems the file is no longer available. Does anyone have a backup?

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    1. scummosNovember 4, 2013 at 5:44 PM

      How stupid. I actually don't seem to have one right now. Will search some more later.

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    2. scummosNovember 5, 2013 at 12:47 PM

      I updated the link, it should work again. Not sure it's the very latest version of what I made but it's pretty close.

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