在TinyOS下主要采用nesC编程，一种C语言的近亲。平时默认打开文本的工具是gedit，将以下代码保存为nesc.lang。
<xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
<!--
nesC (network embedded system C) GtkSourceview language definition
based on GtkSourceview C language definition.
Authors: Ariel Núñez, Marco Barisione, Emanuele Aina, Trilok Inakota
Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Marco Barisione <barisione@gmail.com>
Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Emanuele Aina
Copyright (C) 2007 Ariel Núñez (Adapted to NesC the cpp.lang written by Marco and Emanuele)
Copyright (C) 2010,Trilok Inakota, <itrilok@gmail.com>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-->
<language id="nesc" _name="NesC" version="2.0" _section="Sources">
<metadata>
<property name="mimetypes">text/x-nc</property>
<property name="globs">*.nc;*C.nc;*M.nc;*P.nc</property>
<property name="Wiring">-></property>
<property name="line-comment-start">//</property>
<property name="block-comment-start">/*</property>
<property name="block-comment-end">*/</property>
</metadata>
<styles>
<style id="keyword" _name="Keyword" map-to="c:keyword"/>
<style id="wire"_name="Wiring" map-to="c:preprocessor"/>
<style id="type"_name="Data Type" map-to="c:type"/>
<style id="common-defines" _name="Common Defines" map-to="c:common-defines"/>
</styles>
<definitions>
<!-- NesC-specific stuff (i.e. stuff which is not C) -->
<context id="nesc-proper">
<include>
<context id="keywords" style-ref="keyword" class="keyword">
<keyword>false</keyword>
<keyword>new</keyword>
<keyword>this</keyword>
<keyword>true</keyword>
<keyword>using</keyword>
<keyword>task</keyword>
<keyword>post</keyword>
<keyword>namespace</keyword>
<keyword>event</keyword>
<keyword>command</keyword>
<keyword>module</keyword>
<keyword>implementation</keyword>
<keyword>configuration</keyword>
<keyword>typename</keyword>
<keyword>template</keyword>
<keyword>virtual</keyword>
</context>
<context id="types" style-ref="type">
<keyword>interface</keyword>
<keyword>generic</keyword>
<keyword>uint8_t</keyword>
<keyword>uint16_t</keyword>
<keyword>uint32_t</keyword>
<keyword>int8_t</keyword>
<keyword>int16_t</keyword>
<keyword>int32_t</keyword>
<keyword>bool</keyword>
<keyword>explicit</keyword>
<keyword>export</keyword>
<keyword>inline</keyword>
<keyword>error_t</keyword>
<keyword>result_t</keyword>
<keyword>packet_t</keyword>
<keyword>message_t</keyword>
<keyword>struct</keyword>
<keyword>enum</keyword>
</context>
<context id="common-defines" style-ref="common-defines">
<keyword>provides</keyword>
<keyword>components</keyword>
<keyword>as</keyword>
<keyword>uses</keyword>
<keyword>atomic</keyword>
</context>
<context id="wire" style-ref="wire">
<start>-></start>
<end></end>
<include>
<context ref="c:preprocessor"/>
</include>
</context>
</include>
</context>
<!-- actual language definition: NesC -specific stuff plus everything from C -->
<context id="nesc">
<include>
<context ref="nesc-proper"/>
<context ref="c:c"/>
</include>
</context>
</definitions>
</language>
然后将nesc.lang复制到指定目录
sudo cp nesc.lang /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/
重启Gedit就可以了。一旦重启不行，则选择查看->突出显示模式->源代码->NesC,就OK了。