Gedit highlighter file for gedit

logcat.lang

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<language id="logcat" _name="logcat" version="2.0" _section="Others">
	<metadata>
		<property name="mimetypes">text/x-logcat</property>
		<property name="globs">*.logcat</property>
	</metadata>

	<styles>
		<style id="comment" _name="Comment" map-to="def:comment"/>
		<style id="verbose" _name="Verbose" map-to="def:identifier"/>
		<style id="debug"   _name="Debug"   map-to="def:preprocessor"/>
		<style id="info"    _name="Info"    map-to="def:type"/>
		<style id="warning" _name="Warning" map-to="def:constant"/>
		<style id="error"   _name="Error"   map-to="def:keyword"/>
		<style id="fatal"   _name="Fatal"   map-to="def:error"/>
		<style id="others"  _name="Others"  map-to="def:comment"/>
	</styles>

	<definitions>
		<context id="logcat">
			<include>
				<context id="comment1" style-ref="comment">
					<start>^---------</start>
					<end>$</end>
				</context>
				
				<context id="comment2" style-ref="comment">
					<start>^#</start>
					<end>$</end>
				</context>
				
				<context id="thread" style-ref="others">
					<start>[ ]{2,}[0-9]+[ ]{2,}[0-9]+</start>
					<end> </end>
				</context>
				
				<context id="datetime" style-ref="comment">
					<start>^[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2} [0-9]</start>
					<end> </end>
				</context>
		
				<context id="verbose" style-ref="verbose">
					<start>( V |V/|V\()</start>
					<end>$</end>
				</context>
		
				<context id="debug" style-ref="debug">
					<start>( D |D/|D\()</start>
					<end>$</end>
				</context>
		
				<context id="info" style-ref="info">
					<start>( I |I/|I\()</start>
					<end>$</end>
				</context>
		
				<context id="warning" style-ref="warning">
					<start>( W |W/|W\()</start>
					<end>$</end>
				</context>
		
				<context id="error" style-ref="error">
					<start>( E |E/|E\()</start>
					<end>$</end>
				</context>
		
				<context id="fatal" style-ref="fatal">
					<start>( F |F/|F\()</start>
					<end>$</end>
				</context>
			</include>
		</context>
	</definitions>
</language>

There is one comment context too many. Using the same id twice within the same hierarchy level is what causes the trouble here.

Actually I prefer this in the "start" element: (.*\ W\ |W/). That way it works in normal mode as well as with verbose mode ("-v threadtime"). The latter is my preferred mode.

Thanks Wolfram, I had overlooked the -v flags. I added threadtime, time and process support. Unfortunately the regular expression matching of gedit isn't extremely flexible, so I'm not sure to which extent I could support the other flags, but I haven't looked into it.