Improved Nano Syntax Highlighting Files

This repository holds {lang}.nanorc files that have improved definitions of syntax highlighting for various languages.

1. Copy files

These should be placed inside of the ~/.nano/ directory. Or for system-wide installation /usr/share/nano-syntax-highlighting/. In other words:

git clone [email protected]:scopatz/nanorc.git ~/.nano

*Note - if you have any issues (ssh was not properly configured), alternatively use:

git clone https://github.com/scopatz/nanorc.git ~/.nano

System wide will look like so:

sudo git clone https://github.com/scopatz/nanorc.git /usr/share/nano-syntax-highlighting/

NOTE: < and > are regular character escapes on macOS. The bug's fixed in Nano, but this might be a problem if you are using an older version. If this is the case, replace them respectively with [[:<:]] and [[:>:]]. This is reported in issue 52

2. Configure nano

Once there you should add the languages you want to your nano configuration file ~/.nanorc. For example:

## C/C++
include "~/.nano/c.nanorc"

You can also append the contents of ~/.nano/nanorc into your ~/.nanorc to include all languages:

cat ~/.nano/nanorc >> ~/.nanorc

Or to be less verbose, append content of the folder in one line with wildcard:

## For all users
$ echo "include $install_path/*.nanorc" >> /etc/nanorc
## For current user
$ echo "include $install_path/*.nanorc" >> ~/.nanorc

where $install_path is /usr/share/nano-syntax-highlighting or ~/.nano/ or ...

1a. Automatic installer

Finally, you can run an automatic installer using the following code:

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scopatz/nanorc/master/install.sh | sh

or alternatively:

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scopatz/nanorc/master/install.sh -O- | sh

*Note -

some syntax definitions which exist in Nano upstream may be preferable to the ones provided by this package. The install.sh script may be run with -l or --lite to insert the included syntax definitions from this package with lower precedence than the ones provided by the standard package.

1b. Distributive specific installation via package managers

On Arch Linux and other pacman/aur based systems it is possible to:

$ aurman -S nano-syntax-highlighting-git

or search package:

$ aurman -Ss nano-syntax-highlight

Then you need to mannually add .nanorc-s to user's ~/.nanorc or system /etc/nanorc. See $2

Acknowledgement

Some of these files are derived from the original nano release [Project] [Repository]