KDevelop (and/or Kate): Storage location of syntax color settings?

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Does anyone know where KDevelop (or Kate for that matter) stores the user’s customized settings for syntax highlighting colors?

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I don’t know, so I’m probably wasting your time, but I would assume it’s somewhere in:

/usr/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax-bundled

I haven’t played with KTextEditor for a long time, and I just touched it as much as I needed to make it work, so I apologize for not being able to help you.

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Thanks, I’ll take a took at that. I think I made a hasty assumption it would be a per-user setting, so it didn’t occur to me to look anywhere outside ~.

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Looks like that’s just defining the lexical syntax of the languages, not anything presentation level. But thanks anyway.

I admit I find this a bit puzzling. Sorting potential directory trees by last modified right after making (and saving) a change to a highlight color, I haven’t been able to find any thing that could be it. It’s making be wonder if these might be stored in some database somewhere.

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Hi! I just tried copying one of those themes to rename it, then changing some of the Highlighting Text Styles, then looking for a file with the new theme name - it seemed to be written to a .theme file in the folder ~/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/themes/. Hopefully that helps!

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