[asterisk-users] Which KDE editor to edit Asterisk config files ?

[Diego Iastrubni]

Well, this KDE user (if I have a working SVN account do I qualify as a KDE 
developer...?) uses only kate and hates VIM. I 
use "sftp://root:12345@mymachine/etc/asterisk/*.conf" to open files on the 
remote servers. 

Ok, so instead of bitching, I am attaching here my first draft of the XML file 
which represents the kate syntax hightlighing. Save in in 
~/.kde/share/katepart/diego-kicks-ass.xml, and you will see "Asterisk config 
files" under "Configuration".

It's not done yet, as I want the sample configuration file (also attached 
here) to be working as expected. 

Please comment and review.

PS:
Someone said something about bluefish. This is a GtkSourceView syntax 
highlighter which will work on GEdit as well no...? Can you share?

On Wednesday 16 May 2007 19:57, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2007 11:47 am, Olivier wrote:
> > Do you mean nobody has ever done this before (as I thought before asking
> > this question to the list) ?
> > So which tool KDE users are using for this ?
>
> I am a KDE user, although on Slackware.  Have been for many, many years.
>
> Typically you will find that those who wish to use their GUIs to manipulate
> Asterisk will do so through one of the available GUIs.  Those who want to
> work on the text files will use vim or emacs.
>
> I develop embedded systems; I use kdevelop for coding for the most part,
> and once in a while I'll use Kate to edit config files, but 99% of my time
> manipulating text files is done in vim.
>
> Even as I type this I have kdevelop open for the source and html, but I
> have three konsole tabs open: one to a screen session to a server I IRC
> from, one to a screen session to my development box in the server room
> (which has two login sessions going), one to a telnet session to the board
> I'm developing for, and finally one to a serial port server which the
> serial console of the development box is connected to.
>
> Kate's open, but contains a little textfile I append to which has todo
> lists and notes for the development project.
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; comment

; illegal content: not inside a context
include => context1
exten => s,1,Answer

illegal syntax

#include another_file
#include *more_files

[context1] ; a comment
exten => s,1,Answer ; more comments
exten => s,2,Hungup ; and even more

[context2] 
exten ;; should be an error
exten -> ;; should be an error
exten -> s ;; should be an error
exten -> s,n ;; should be an error

[context3] shuold be an error
include => context2	; ok
include => "context2"	; ok, but fishie

[context3] shuold be an error ; and this a comment
include => context2	; ok
include => "context2"	; ok, but fishie

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE language SYSTEM "language.dtd">

<language name="Asterisk config files" version="1.00" kateversion="2.4" section="Configuration" extensions="*.conf" author="Diego Iastrubni (elcuco at kde.org)" license="Public Domain" >
	<highlighting>
		<list name="dialplan_keywords">
			<item> exten </item>
			<item> include </item>
		</list>
		
		<contexts>
			<context name="normal" attribute="Error" lineEndContext="#stay" firstNonSpace="1">
				<DetectChar char=";" context="comment" firstNonSpace="1" />
				<DetectChar char="[" context="context" firstNonSpace="1" />
				<DetectChar char="#" context="include" firstNonSpace="1" />
				<keyword String="dialplan_keywords" context = "diaplan_context" firstNonSpace="1" />
			</context>
			
			<context name="context" attribute="Context" lineEndContext="#pop" >
				<DetectChar char="]"  context="normal" firstNonSpace="1" />
<!-- 				<DetectChar context="comment"  char=";" /> -->
			</context>
			
			<context  name="include" attribute="Include" lineEndContext="#pop">
				<DetectChar context="comment"  char=";" />
			</context>
			
			<context  name="include_context" attribute="IncludeDial" lineEndContext="#pop">
				<DetectChar context="comment"  char=";" />
			</context>
			
			<context  name="diaplan_context" attribute="Normal" lineEndContext="#pop">
				<DetectChar context="comment"  char=";" />
			</context>
			
			<context name="error" attribute="Error" lineEndContext="normal" >
			</context>
			
			<context name="comment" attribute="Comment" lineEndContext="#pop" >
			</context>
		</contexts>
		
		<itemDatas>
			<itemData name="Normal"		defStyleNum="dsNormal" />
			<itemData name="Comment"	defStyleNum="dsComment" />
			<itemData name="Context"	defStyleNum="dsFunction" />
			<itemData name="Include"	defStyleNum="dsOthers" />
			<itemData name="IncludeDial"	defStyleNum="dsError" />
			<itemData name="Error"		defStyleNum="dsError" />
		</itemDatas>
	</highlighting>
	
	<general>
		<comments>
			<comment name="singleLine" start=";" />
		</comments>
		<keywords casesensitive="1"/>
	</general>
</language>