better document location to place files

[mpictor]

if the directory doesn't exist, you can make kate create it by updating the installed highlighters.

Navigate Settings -> Configure Kate... -> Open/Save -> File types
Click Download, then Install. The dir will be created and populated.

This dir may be ~/.kde/share/apps/katepart/syntax, ~/.local/share/katepart5/syntax, or ~/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting (and possibly others).

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from: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/108685/158521

[ThorbenJ]

It wasn't clear to me where to put these and it took a few tries; but with kate5, these places worked:
Windows: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\katepart5\syntax
Linux: ~/.local/share/katepart5/syntax
-T

[Pitmairen]

For me ~/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax/ is working