These files add ActionScript and MXML syntax highlighting to gEdit Instructions: 1 - Place 'actionscript.lang' and 'mxml.lang' in '/usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/' sudo cp actionscript.lang /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/ sudo cp mxml.lang /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/ 2 - Place 'actionscript.xml' and 'mxml.xml' in '/usr/share/mime/packages' sudo cp actionscript.xml /usr/share/mime/packages/ sudo cp mxml.xml /usr/share/mime/packages/ 3 - Update the 'mime' database : sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime 4 - Voila, you're done