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The text editor I prefer (after spending so many years in the MS Windows environment) is Tilde.
It does not ship with a language file for Gemtext, so I put one together. The following two files should be placed in ~/.local/share/libt3highlight/:
The Gemtext language file: gemtext.lang.
format = 1
# Tilde highlighter definitions for Gemtext
# See gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/gemtext.gmi or
# https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/gemtext.gmi for a description
# of the file format.
# Headings
%highlight {
start = "^#"
end = "$"
style = "misc"
}
# Block-quote
%highlight {
start = "^>"
end = "$"
style = "comment-keyword"
}
# List
%highlight {
start = "^\* "
end = "$"
style = "keyword"
}
# Link line
%highlight {
start = "^=>"
end = "$"
style = "variable"
}
# Preformatted text
%highlight {
start = "^```"
end = "^```"
style = "comment"
}
The lang.map file, which associates the gemtext highlighter with *.gmi files.
format = 1
%lang {
name = "Gemtext"
file-regex = "\.gmi$"
lang-file = "gemtext.lang"
}
That's all it takes. I have a couple of machines that won't run Tilde, so my fallback editor there is Micro. Its default syntax highlighting for Gemtext is acceptable, but could be fine-tuned by building a YAML file in ~/.config/micro/syntax.
micro - a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
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