I'm looking at Kate's highlighting feature and trying to figure out how it works with files that have no extension. If I load a bash script into Kate it appears with lovely highlighting, and looking in Settings => Configure Kate => Highlighting I see that it has somehow associated it with | application/x-shellscript;text/x-shellscript I don't understand how it does this, since, looking at the mime entry for this in KControl Center => TDE Components => File Associations, to be matched, files must have one of the .sh, .csh, or .bash extensions. The bash script has the so-called "magic number" | #!/bin/bash as its first line, but nothing in the Kate and File Associations handbooks mentions these, and there is no place in the Configure Kate dialog to make an association with a magic number. The reason I'm looking at this is that I use a different, more programmer-friendly language, Rexx, for my scripting. Like bash scripts, I use a "magic number", in this case | #!/usr/bin/rexx to associate the text/rexx mime type with these scripts instead of an extension; but Kate does not associate this mime type; the Highlighting entry is set to None for this file when it is loaded, and no highlighting occurs. How does Kate know what highlighting to use with a bash script that has no extension, and why doesn't that work for a Rexx script with no extension? N.B. the highlighting works for Rexx scripts with the extensions defined in File Associations, but unlike bash scripts, not without them, so the mime types are functional; but I don't want to have to put extensions on all of my Rexx scripts just because of this Kate weirdness. Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0