good news everyone I was able to with some editing grab a brightscript syntax highlighting xml file from that previous link. I will make an entire howto when I get kate scripts done.
But for now here is how to install the syntax highlighting.
I am on a debian system so I did a file search for bash.xml and copied brightscript.xml to those directories and restarted kate. And boom, I now get syntax highlighting of brightscript in kate! well over half of the battle is done.
This is what I did on my system, if you run a debian based system it might work.
sudo cp brightscript.xml /usr/share/apps/katepart/syntax
sudo cp brightscript.xml /usr/share/kde4/apps/katepart/syntax/
Here is the actual file. Just cut and paste it into an editor and save it as brightscript.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE language SYSTEM "language.dtd">
<language name="BrightScript" version="0.1" kateversion="3.5" section="Sources" extensions="*.brs;" author="Jakub Stachowski (qbast@go2.pl)" license="GPL">
<highlighting>
<list name="Keywords">
<item>Dim</item>
<item>End</item>
<item>Stop</item>
<item>Goto</item>
<item>Return</item>
<item>For</item>
<item>To</item>
<item>Step</item>
<item>For Each</item>
<item>In</item>
<item>While</item>
<item>Exit while</item>
<item>If</item>
<item>Then</item>
<item>Else</item>
<item>Elseif</item>
<item>Step</item>
<item>Print</item>
<item>As</item>
<item>Function</item>
<item>LINE_NUM</item>
</list>
<list name="Data Types">
<item> Integer </item>
<item> Boolean </item>
<item> Float </item>
<item> Double </item>
<item> String </item>
<item> Dynamic </item>
<item> Object </item>
<item> Interface </item>
<item> Void </item>
</list>
<list name="functions">
<item>Type</item>
<item>Rnd</item>
<item>Box</item>
<item>Run</item>
<item>Eval</item>
<item>GetLastRunCompileError</item>
<item>GetLastRunRuntimeError</item>
<item>Sleep</item>
<item>Wait</item>
<item>CreateObject</item>
<item>GetInterface</item>
<item>UpTime</item>
<item>RebootSystem</item>
<item>ListDir</item>
<item>ReadAsciiFile</item>
<item>WriteAsciiFile</item>
<item>CopyFile</item>
<item>MatchFiles</item>
<item>DeleteFile</item>
<item>DeleteDirectory</item>
<item>CreateDirectory</item>
<item>FormatDrive</item>
<item>UCase</item>
<item>LCase</item>
<item>Asc</item>
<item>Chr</item>
<item>Instr</item>
<item>Left</item>
<item>Len</item>
<item>Mid</item>
<item>Right</item>
<item>Str</item>
<item>Stri</item>
<item>Val</item>
<item>Abs</item>
<item>Atn</item>
<item>Cos</item>
<item>Csng</item>
<item>Cdbl</item>
<item>Exp</item>
<item>Fix</item>
<item>Log</item>
<item>Sgn</item>
<item>Sin</item>
<item>Sqr</item>
<item>Tan</item>
</list>
<contexts>
<context attribute="Normal Text" lineEndContext="#stay" name="Normal">
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="\b(exit (for|while))([\s]|$)" insensitive="true" />
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="\b(m\.)" insensitive="true" />
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="\b(while)([\s\(]|$)" insensitive="true" beginRegion="WhileRegion"/>
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="\b(end ?while)([\s]|$)" insensitive="true" endRegion="WhileRegion"/>
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="\b(for)([\s]|$)" insensitive="true" beginRegion="ForRegion"/>
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="\b((end ?for)|next)([\s]|$)" insensitive="true" endRegion="ForRegion"/>
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="\b(function)([.\s]|$)" insensitive="true" beginRegion="fProcedureRegion"/>
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="\b(end ?function)([\s]|$)" insensitive="true" endRegion="fProcedureRegion"/>
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="\b(sub)([.\s]|$)" insensitive="true" beginRegion="sProcedureRegion"/>
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="\b(end ?sub)([\s]|$)" insensitive="true" endRegion="sProcedureRegion"/>
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="\b(if)([\s]|$)" insensitive="true" beginRegion="IfRegion"/>
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="AfterThen" String="\b(then)" insensitive="true" />
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="\b(else( ?if)?)([\s]|$)" insensitive="true" beginRegion="IfRegion" endRegion="IfRegion"/>
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="\b(end ?if)([\s]|$)" insensitive="true" endRegion="IfRegion"/>
<keyword attribute="Keywords" context="#stay" String="Keywords"/>
<keyword attribute="Data Types" context="#stay" String="Data Types"/>
<keyword attribute="Functions" context="#stay" String="functions"/>
<Float attribute="Number" context="#stay"/>
<Int attribute="Number" context="#stay"/>
<DetectChar attribute="String" context="String" char=""" />
<DetectChar attribute="Comment" context="Comment1" char="'"/>
<RegExpr attribute="Comment" context="Comment1" String="^[\s]*REM[\s]*" />
</context>
<context attribute="Normal Text" lineEndContext="#pop" name="AfterThen">
<RegExpr attribute="Keywords" context="#pop" String="([\s]+[a-zA-Z_]+)" lookAhead="true" endRegion="IfRegion"/>
</context>
<context attribute="String" lineEndContext="#pop" name="String">
<DetectChar attribute="String" context="#pop" char="""/>
</context>
<context attribute="Comment" lineEndContext="#pop" name="Comment1">
<keyword attribute="Number" context="#stay" String="attention" />
</context>
</contexts>
<itemDatas>
<itemData name="Normal Text" defStyleNum="dsNormal"/>
<itemData name="Keywords" defStyleNum="dsKeyword"/>
<itemData name="Functions" defStyleNum="dsFunction"/>
<itemData name="Data Types" defStyleNum="dsDataType"/>
<itemData name="Number" defStyleNum="dsDecVal"/>
<itemData name="String" defStyleNum="dsString"/>
<itemData name="Comment" defStyleNum="dsComment"/>
<itemData name="Region Marker " defStyleNum="dsRegionMarker"/>
</itemDatas>
</highlighting>
<general>
<keywords casesensitive="0" />
<comments>
<comment name="singleLine" start="'" />
<comment name="remark" start="REM " />
</comments>
</general>
</language>
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