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I installed the Macports version of the nano text editor
sudo port install nano +colors
and now i have all the syntax highlighting nanorc files
ls /opt/local/share/nano
drwxr-xr-x 31 root admin 1054 30 Set 19:51 ./
drwxr-xr-x 14 root admin 476 30 Set 19:51 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 783 20 Nov 2012 asm.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 1504 20 Nov 2012 awk.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 1514 20 Nov 2012 c.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 828 20 Nov 2012 cmake.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 331 20 Nov 2012 css.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 680 20 Nov 2012 debian.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 2032 20 Nov 2012 fortran.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 3139 20 Nov 2012 gentoo.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 723 20 Nov 2012 groff.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 124 20 Nov 2012 html.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 610 20 Nov 2012 java.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 248 20 Nov 2012 makefile.nanorc
drwxr-xr-x 6 root admin 204 30 Set 19:51 man-html/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 264 20 Nov 2012 man.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 219 20 Nov 2012 mgp.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 95 20 Nov 2012 mutt.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 1110 20 Nov 2012 nanorc.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 1696 20 Nov 2012 objc.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 791 20 Nov 2012 ocaml.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 242 20 Nov 2012 patch.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 1438 20 Nov 2012 perl.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 687 20 Nov 2012 php.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 682 20 Nov 2012 pov.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 527 20 Nov 2012 python.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 1475 20 Nov 2012 ruby.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 691 20 Nov 2012 sh.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 2110 20 Nov 2012 tcl.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 141 20 Nov 2012 tex.nanorc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 260 20 Nov 2012 xml.nanorc
so I created a ~/.nanorc config file
## Nanorc files
include "/opt/local/share/nano/nanorc.nanorc"
## C/C++
include "/opt/local/share/nano/c.nanorc"
## Cascading Style Sheets
include "/opt/local/share/nano/css.nanorc"
...
This is working just for .nanorc files... What am I doing wrong?
If you type
nano -V
does it show--enable-color
among the options? How are you testing? Did you open a.c
file? If I create a new file and put python code in it, it won't show up with highlighting until I save it with the appropriate extension. – beroe – 2013-09-30T21:42:03.730@beroe Yes i'm opening a .c file or a .py file.
--enable-color
shown. – DiTTiD – 2013-10-01T17:19:05.687Do you have a sense whether your
.nanorc
is getting sourced? Does--enable-nanorc
also show up in the options? You could try introducing an error (echo HELLO
) into your.nanorc
file and see if you get an error message when launching it. – beroe – 2013-10-01T18:57:42.197Yup! .nanorc is sourcing... It shows in options --enable-nanorc and it gives me errors when launching it...
o.O' – DiTTiD – 2013-10-02T08:56:49.060
1Bummer! Any reason you used the macports version? It worked for me with the pre-installed nano and just grabbing the nanorc files from an archive. – beroe – 2013-10-02T13:49:37.987
I read from other sites that the one installed in OSX was not compiled with colors option. :S – DiTTiD – 2013-10-02T17:03:01.733