diff --git a/lib/ace/mode/dart.js b/lib/ace/mode/dart.js
index 9fc58f3e..114c79ab 100644
--- a/lib/ace/mode/dart.js
+++ b/lib/ace/mode/dart.js
@@ -41,18 +41,19 @@ define(function(require, exports, module) {
 "use strict";
 
 var oop = require("../lib/oop");
-var TextMode = require("./text").Mode;
+var CMode = require("./c_cpp").Mode;
 var Tokenizer = require("../tokenizer").Tokenizer;
 var DartHighlightRules = require("./dart_highlight_rules").DartHighlightRules;
 var CStyleFoldMode = require("./folding/cstyle").FoldMode;
 
 var Mode = function() {
+    CMode.call(this);
     var highlighter = new DartHighlightRules();
     this.foldingRules = new CStyleFoldMode();
 
     this.$tokenizer = new Tokenizer(highlighter.getRules());
 };
-oop.inherits(Mode, TextMode);
+oop.inherits(Mode, CMode);
 
 (function() {
     // Extra logic goes here.