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    <link type="guide" xref="index#configure-gedit"/>
    <desc>Highlight your text to make it easier to read.</desc>
  <credit type="translator copyright"><name>Zander Brown</name><email>zbrown@gnome.org</email><years>2020</years></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> recognises 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 style="menu">View</gui> <gui style="menuitem">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>
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