DISCLAIMER: I do not claim any ownership or rights to Byond. All rights are reserved to those at http://www.byond.com. I'm just providing a means for developers to edit source code outside of Windows.
This repository provides a better means for Byond developers to develop their games and programs on non-Windows platforms using ordinary text editors. At least with syntax highlighting, it's one more reason to not have to rely on dual-booting or relying on Wine to use Byond's built-in Dream Maker IDE.
Using Byond's DM Reference guide, all basic keywords and types are highlighted as with the Dream Maker IDE on Windows. However, unlike it, this project allows for more built-in highlighted keywords that are frequently used as of Byond 498.1163, such as src, usr, icon, text, null, savefile, etc.
Currently, it only supports text editors that use gtksourceview http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/.
A mimetype is provided to automatically detect a DM source code file upon opening a text editor; this includes the file extensions: *.dm, *.dme, *.dmf, .dmm, .dms, & .int (.dmi is not included as they're saved as image file types, not text). There is a provided shell script to add the files to the necessary local directories as well.
Note(s): If the script does not work on your platform, ./gtksourceview/ dm-byond.lang should be copied to ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/ language-species for personal use or /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/ language-species to globally share it amongst users, and ./dm-byond.xml to ~/ .local/share/mime/packages & execute update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime
The coloring is independent of the actual syntax hightlighing specifications. Instead, that is determined by the style/theme selected by your text editor (I just chose that particular theme for the example as it best demonstrates the different kinds of keywords whereas some themes reuse some colors).