.desktop file semicolon syntax coloring

[RealAprilF00lz]

I went into a .desktop file (/usr/share/applications/yelp.desktop) with Micro and saw that everything after the first semicolon in a list separated by semicolons was colored the same as comments. Was the same in other .desktop files in the directory. Doesn't happen in Nano. Is this intentional?

Commit hash: 2.0.13
OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Terminal: GNOME Terminal

[Andriamanitra]

The reason for this is that .desktop files currently use the built-in .ini syntax highlighting by default. I've been using a custom syntax file for .desktop files to give them nicer highlighting: https://github.com/Andriamanitra/dotfiles/blob/main/micro/.config/micro/syntax/desktop.yaml

[niten94]

Manually editing .desktop files is not rare so I think the syntax file can be included in micro instead of highlighting them as ini files. Sections in ini and systemd unit files are highlighted using special color group so it may be better changing like so if included.