[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#793146: mc: allow system-wide configuration of syntax files

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.8.13-3
Severity: normal

/usr/share/mc/syntax/* would be beneficial to have system-wide tunable.

Concretely I would like on my systems to recognize oddly-named make
snippets and use this:

file (.\*[Mm]akefile[\\\.A-Za-z0-9]\*|..\*\\.mk|..\*\\.mak(\\.in)?|Kbuild)$ Makefile ^#!.\*([\s/]make|/usr/bin/make) ^#\s-\\\*-\smode:\smakefile(;.\*)?\s-\\\*-
include makefile.syntax

Likely the Emacs-style "-*- mode: .* -*-" style hinting is relevant for
upstream to adopt, but really I think there is only a universal
_default_ for which files should use which syntax - i.e. it should be
configurable.

If unsuitable/difficult to have mc code lookup below /etc for override
syntax files, Debian packaging could have /usr/share/mc/syntax be a
symlink to e.g. /etc/mc/syntax where the actual files are installed.


 - Jonas