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alt789

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Registered: 2013-04-12

Posts: 5

Syntax Highlighting in NANO...?

Somewhat new to linux and the Slitaz distro but this is possibly a question that has already been answered, however I can't seem to find it.  I mostly use NANO for editing and scripting.  Is there a way to enable NANO to highlight or another editor for Slitaz that does syntax highlighting.  I've used other distro's that already have this feature enabled but I'm not sure what needs to be done to achieve this.

subreptice

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Registered: 2013-03-10

Posts: 54

Re: Syntax Highlighting in NANO...?

Had you already tried that ?

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/nanorc-does-not-have-any-effect-on-nano-usage#post-23957

And welcome :-)

alt789

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Registered: 2013-04-12

Posts: 5

Re: Syntax Highlighting in NANO...?

clov3r has shown me the light. 

http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_use_syntax_highlighting_with_the_GNU_nano_text_editor

clov3r

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 8

Re: Syntax Highlighting in NANO...?

If your looking for an editor, I highly recommend Sublime Text as a graphical text editor. Maybe you like the cli, but this works great for me. Available as tar.bz2.

[c]# Download Sublime Text 2 from http://www.sublimetext.com/2
wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Sublime%20Text%202.0.1.tar.bz2
# If you aren't root, sudo su

tar -xvjf Sublime\ Text\ 2*.tar.bz2
mv Sublime\ Text\ 2/ /opt/sublime-text-2/
ln -s /opt/sublime-text-2 /usr/local/sublime-text-2
ln -s /usr/local/sublime-text-2/sublime_text /usr/local/bin/sublime_text
rm Sublime\ Text\ 2*.tar.bz2[/c]

alt789

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Registered: 2013-04-12

Posts: 5

Re: Syntax Highlighting in NANO...?

Thanks. I am trying to get myself more familiar with the CLI currently but I'll check out Sublime.

Just in case anyone ever comes across this thread I did finally run across a nice sample list at "https://github.com/scopatz/nanorc"

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Syntax Highlighting in NANO...?

I prefer Geany myself. It's pretty lightweight while having all the features a programmer could need.

christophe

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Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

Re: Syntax Highlighting in NANO...?

I do not do programming, (except some awk and sql from time to time).

As a text editor, I like and use Scite and I am happy with it. It is not as sophisticated as geany, but nano or vim are not either of course.