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 git@github.com: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]