Gedit

Note: this highlights syntax only and does NOT attempt to validate arguments or keywords. It is unlikely to be 100% accurate, and improvements are welcome.

Syntax highlighting is automatically applied to files with conky in their name, for example my_config.conky. Unfortunately, it also matches the conky.lang file itself, which you should set to XML manually.

• gtksourceview Syntax Highlight documentation
• Regex Tutorial
• Regex Testing

Developers: the main context (id="conkyrc") is where gedit starts. That context then references other subcontexts. Each context can apply styles to itself, to substrings matched by its regular expressions, or to its contents in the case of <start><end> container contexts. If anything is unclear, search the gtksourceview docs for the relevant XML attributes. If you run into a particularly complex regex, try the Regex Tester linked above, and keep in mind that gtksourceview adds some extra regex syntax, such as \%[ ... ] and \%{ ... }.

For medit v1.1.1: /usr/share/medit/language-specs/conky.lang

For older versions of medit: /usr/share/medit-1/language-specs/conky.lang

For gedit v2.x: /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/conky.lang or, for a single user: ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/conky.lang

For gedit v3.x: /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs/conky.lang or, for a single user: ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs/conky.lang