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      id="gedit-syntax-highlighting">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#configure-gedit"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.0" version="1.0" date="2011-03-25" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Jim Campbell</name>
      <email>jwcampbell@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
  </info>

  <title>Turn on syntax highlighting</title>

  <section id="gedit-syntax-highlighting-section">
    <title>Syntax Highlighting</title>
    <p><app>gedit</app> provides syntax highlighting for a wide range of markup, programming, and scientific languages.  If <app>gedit</app> recognizes the syntax being used when you open a file, it will automatically highlight the text.</p>

    <p>If your syntax or language is not highlighted upon startup, you can select the appropriate syntax or language by clicking <guiseq><gui>View</gui><gui>Highlight Mode</gui></guiseq>, and then choosing the desired syntax. Alternately, you can select the syntax name from a list at the bottom of the <app>gedit</app> window.</p>
  </section>

</page>
