rexx mime type
Submitted by Colin Brace
Assigned to Shared Mime Info group
Description
xdg-utils currently appears to identify a Rexx file on the basis of the string "/" (or maybe "/ [...] */") at the beginning of the first line. This is correct for Rexx files which are used under OS/2, which is how the OS/2 shell recognizes them as such.
However, when writing a Rexx program under Linux, you customarily put a shebang in the first line pointing to the Regina interpreter:
#!/usr/bin/regina
so as to enable the files to be executable. It would be very helpful if this pattern could be added to the xdg-mime database. This would enable, for example, gedit to properly recognize Rexx files under Linux and automatically switch on syntax highlighting.