[PATCH] Overriding automatic syntax detection

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hi,

Today I've been scratching an itch that I had for a while: An option to
override the auto syntax recognition.

Luckily the hooks to provide a syntax type are already available in the
code. In the editors menu I added a menu entry "Syntax &Highlighting".
Assuming syntax highlighting is enabled in the General menu you can
disable automatic syntax detection and enter a type in the quick_input.
These types should equal the second entries in Syntax file file lines,
so use something like "PHP Program" or "C/C++ Program".

If you drop this patch into an existing tree you will have to run
autoreconf to regenerate edit/Makefile.in. It is not provided in this
patch.

This code is (obviously) inspired by editoptions.c. It currently misses 
i18n translations and it is probably a good idea to auto fill the syntax
type list (which currently gets saved in ~/.mc/history). It is quite
possible that I should use a different widget instead of quick_input for
this list (it may be static wrt user input and it should be auto
generated or pre filled). Suggestions are welcome.

Leonard.

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