## Use auto-indentation set autoindent ## Backup files to filename~ # set backup ## Constantly display the cursor position in the status bar. # set const ## Use cut to end of line with ^K by default # set cut ## Set the line length for wrapping text and justifying paragraphs. ## If fill is negative, the line length will be the screen width less ## this number. ## # set fill -8 ## Enable ~/.nano_history for saving and reading search/replace strings. set historylog ## Use alternate keypad routines # set keypad ## Allow multiple file buffers (using ^R inserts into separate buffer). ## You must have configured with --enable-multibuffer or --enable-extra ## for this to work. ## ## set multibuffer ## Don't convert files from DOS/Mac format # set noconvert ## Don't follow symlinks when writing files # set nofollow ## Don't display the help lists at the bottom of the screen set nohelp ## Don't wrap text at all set nowrap ## Set operating directory. nano will not read or write files outside ## this directory and its subdirectories. Also, the current directory ## is changed to here, so files are inserted from this dir. A blank ## string means the operating directory feature is turned off. ## # set operatingdir "" ## Preserve the XON and XOFF keys (^Q and ^S) # set preserve ## The email-quote string, used to justify email-quoted paragraphs. ## This is an extended regular expression if your system supports them, ## otherwise a literal string. Default: # set quotestr "^([ ]*[\|>:}#])+" ## if you have regexps, otherwise: # set quotestr "> " ## You can get old nano quoted-justify behavior via: # set quotestr "(> )+" ## Do extended regular expression searches by default set regexp ## Use smooth scrolling as the default set smooth ## Use this spelling checker instead of the internal one. This option ## does not properly have a default value. ## # set speller "aspell -c" ## Allow nano to be suspended with ^Z set suspend ## Use this tab size instead of the default; it must be greater than 0 set tabsize 4 ## Save automatically on exit, don't prompt # set tempfile ## Disallow file modification, why would you want this in an rc file? ;) # set view ## Color setup ## Format: ## syntax "short description" ["filename regex" ...] ## color foreground,background "regex" ["regex"...] ## ## Legal colors: white, black, red, blue, green, yellow, magenta, cyan. ## You may use the prefix "bright" to mean a stronger color highlight. ## ## To use multi-line regexes use the start="regex" end="regex" format. ## ## If your system supports transparency, not specifying a background ## color will use a transparent color. If you don't want this, be sure ## to set the background color to black or white. ## syntax "c-file" "\.(c|h|m)$" color red "\<[A-Z_]{2,}\>" color green "\<(float|char|int|void|static|const|struct)\>" color brightyellow "\<(if|while|do|else|case|switch)\>" color brightcyan "^#( )*(define|include|ifn?def|endif|elif|else|if)" ## ## You will in general want your comments and strings to come last, ## because syntax highlighting rules will be applied in the order they ## are read in. ## color brightyellow "<[^= ]*>" ""(\\.|[^\"])*"" ## ## This string is VERY resource intensive!!! # color brightyellow start=""(\\.|[^\"])*\\( | )*$" end="^(\\.|[^\"])*"" ## ## And we want to have some nice comment highlighting too color brightblue "//.*" color brightblue start="/\*" end="\*/" ##--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- html ## Here is a short example for HTML syntax "HTML" "\.html$" color magenta start="<" end=">" color red "]*>" ## Here is a short example for TeX files syntax "TeX" "\.tex$" color green "\\.|\\[A-Za-z]*" color magenta "[{}]" color blue "%.*" ## Here is an example for quoted emails (under e.g. mutt) # syntax "mutt" # color green "^>.*" ## Here is an example for groff ## # syntax "groff" "\.ms$" "\.mm$" "\.me$" "\.tmac$" "^tmac." ".rof" ## The argument of .nr or .ds # color cyan "^\.ds [^ ]*" # color cyan "^\.nr [^ ]*" ## Single character escapes # color brightmagenta "\\." ## Highlight the argument of \f or \s in the same color # color brightmagenta "\\f." # color brightmagenta "\\f\(.." # color brightmagenta "\\s(\+|\-)?[0-9]" ## \n # color cyan "(\\|\\\\)n." # color cyan "(\\|\\\\)n\(.." # color cyan start="(\\|\\\\)n\[" end="]" ## Requests # color brightgreen "^\. *[^ ]*" ## Comments # color yellow "^\.\\\".*$" ## Strings # color green "(\\|\\\\)\*." # color green "(\\|\\\\)\*\(.." # color green start="(\\|\\\\)\*\[" end="]" ## Characters # color brightred "\\\(.." # color brightred start="\\\[" end="]" ## Macro arguments # color brightcyan "\\\\\$[1-9]" ## Here is an example for perl ## syntax "perl" "\.p[lm]$" color red "\<(accept|alarm|atan2|bin(d|mode)|c(aller|h(dir|mod|op|own|root)|lose(dir)?|onnect|os|rypt)|d(bm(close|open)|efined|elete|ie|o|ump)|e(ach|of|val|x(ec|ists|it|p))|f(cntl|ileno|lock|ork)|get(c|login|peername|pgrp|ppid|priority|pwnam|(host|net|proto|serv)byname|pwuid|grgid|(host|net)byaddr|protobynumber|servbyport)|([gs]et|end)(pw|gr|host|net|proto|serv)ent|getsock(name|opt)|gmtime|goto|grep|hex|index|int|ioctl|join|keys|kill|last|length|link|listen|local(time)?|log|lstat|m|mkdir|msg(ctl|get|snd|rcv)|next|oct|open(dir)?|ord|pack|pipe|pop|printf?|push|q|qq|qx|rand|re(ad(dir|link)?|cv|do|name|quire|set|turn|verse|winddir)|rindex|rmdir|s|scalar|seek|seekdir|se(lect|mctl|mget|mop|nd|tpgrp|tpriority|tsockopt)|shift|shm(ctl|get|read|write)|shutdown|sin|sleep|socket(pair)?|sort|spli(ce|t)|sprintf|sqrt|srand|stat|study|substr|symlink|sys(call|read|tem|write)|tell(dir)?|time|tr|y|truncate|umask|un(def|link|pack|shift)|utime|values|vec|wait(pid)?|wantarray|warn|write)\>" color magenta "\<(continue|else|elsif|do|for|foreach|if|unless|until|while|eq|ne|lt|gt|le|ge|cmp|x|my|sub|use|package|can|isa)\>" color cyan start="[$@%]" end="( |\\W|-)" color yellow "".*"|qq\|.*\|" color white "[sm]/.*/" color white start="(^use| = new)" end=";" color green "#.*" color yellow start="<< 'STOP'" end="STOP" ## Here is an example for Java source ## syntax "Java source" "\.java$" color green "\<(boolean|byte|char|double|float|int|long|new|short|this|transient|void)\>" color red "\<(break|case|catch|continue|default|do|else|finally|for|if|return|switch|throw|try|while)\>" color cyan "\<(abstract|class|extends|final|implements|import|instanceof|interface|native|package|private|protected|public|static|strictfp|super|synchronized|throws|volatile)\>" color red ""[^\"]*"" color yellow "\<(true|false|null)\>" color blue "//.*" color blue start="/\*" end="\*/" color brightblue start="/\*\*" end="\*/" color brightgreen,brightgreen "[ ]+$" ## Here is an example for your .nanorc ## syntax "nanorc" "[\.]*nanorc$" color white "^ *(set|unset).*$" color cyan "^ *(set|unset) (autoindent|backup|const|cut|fill|keypad|multibuffer|noconvert|nofollow|nohelp|nowrap|operatingdir|preserve|quotestr|regexp|smooth|speller|suspend|tabsize|tempfile|historylog|view)" color brightwhite "^ *syntax [^ ]*" color brightblue "^ *set\>" "^ *unset\>" "^ *syntax\>" color white "^ *color\>.*" color yellow "^ *color (bright)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan)\>" color magenta "^ *color\>" color green "^#.*$" ## Found this on the net for PHP (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=86562) ## syntax "php" ".*/*.php$" color brightwhite "\{|\}|\." color red "('[^']*')" color red "\"[^\"]*\"" color cyan "(\$([[:alpha:]_]|->)*)" color brightgreen "((\$(([[:alpha:]_0-9])+\->)+)[[:alpha:]_0-9]+\()" color yellow " (if|else if|else|return|case|break)" color yellow "\|\||\?|!|\||&&|=|;|\(|\)" color red "false|true" color brightwhite "[[:space:]]+debug|[[:space:]]+echo|\$this\->debug" color magenta "//.*" color magenta start="/\*" end="\*/" ## Found this on the net for Python (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=86562) ## #syntax "python" "\.py$" #color brightblue "def [a-zA-Z_0-9]+" #color brightcyan "\<(and|assert|break|class|continue|def|del|elif|else|except|exec|finally|for|from|global|if|import|in|is|lambda|map|not|or|pass|print|raise|return|try|while)\>" #color brightgreen "([\"']).*?[^\\]\1" #color brightgreen start="\"\"\"" end="\"\"\"" #color brightred "#.*$" ## Another Python config (http://www.tenacious.us/projects/sysadmin/nanorc.txt) ## syntax "python" "\.py$" color red "[\[\](){}:]" color brightblue "\<__dict__\>" color blue start="/\*" end="\*/" color cyan "([\"']).+[^\\]\1" color magenta "[[:<:]](def|except|catch|continue|default|do|else|finally|for|if|return|switch|throw|try|while)[[:>:]]" color magenta " in " color brightblue "[[:<:]](true|false|null)[[:>:]]" color yellow "[[:<:]](from|print|import)[[:>:]]" color cyan "'[^\"]*'" color cyan ""[^\"]*"" color cyan """[^\"]*""" color cyan """".*"""" #color white ":" color blue "#.*" ## My homemade Prolog colorings syntax "prolog" "\.pro$" color yellow "(\(|\)|,|\.|[:-])"