## Sample initialization file for GNU nano ## Please note that you must have configured nano with --enable-nanorc ## for this file to be read! Also note that characters specially ## interpreted by the shell should not be escaped here. ## ## To make sure a value is not enabled, use "unset <option>" ## ## For the options that take parameters, the default value is given. ## Other options are unset by default. ## Use auto-indentation. # set autoindent ## Backup files to filename~. # set backup ## The directory to put unique backup files in. # set backupdir "" ## Do backwards searches by default. # set backwards ## The characters treated as closing brackets. They cannot contain ## blank characters. Only closing punctuation, optionally followed by ## closing brackets, can end sentences. ## # set brackets "'")}]>" ## Do case sensitive searches by default. # set casesensitive ## Constantly display the cursor position in the statusbar. Note that ## this cancels out "quickblank". # set const ## Use cut to end of line 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 the blank line below the titlebar as extra editing space. # set morespace ## Enable mouse support, so that mouse clicks can be used to set the ## mark and run shortcuts. # set mouse ## Allow multiple file buffers (inserting a file will put it into a ## separate buffer). You must have configured with --enable-multibuffer ## 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 helpful shortcut 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 characters treated as closing punctuation. They cannot contain ## blank characters. Only closing punctuation, optionally followed by ## closing brackets, can end sentences. ## # set punct ".?!" ## Do quick statusbar blanking. Statusbar messages will disappear after ## 1 keystroke instead of 25. Note that "const" cancels this out. ## # set quickblank ## 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 "(> )+" ## Fix Backspace/Delete confusion problem. # set rebinddelete ## Do extended regular expression searches by default. # set regexp ## Make the Home key smarter. When Home is pressed anywhere but at the ## very beginning of non-whitespace characters on a line, the cursor ## will jump to that beginning (either forwards or backwards). If the ## cursor is already at that position, it will jump to the true ## beginning of the line. # set smarthome ## 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 -x -c" ## Allow nano to be suspended. # set suspend ## Use this tab size instead of the default; it must be greater than 0. # set tabsize 8 ## Convert typed tabs to spaces. # set tabstospaces ## Save automatically on exit, don't prompt. # set tempfile ## Disallow file modification; why would you want this in an rcfile? ;) # set view ## The two single-column characters used to display the first characters ## of tabs and spaces. 187 decimal (00BB hexadecimal) and 183 decimal ## (00B7 hexadecimal) seem to be good values for these. # set whitespace " " ## 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 ## for the foreground. ## ## 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|C|cc|cpp|h|H|hh|hpp)$" # color red "\<[A-Z_]{2,}\>" # color green "\<(float|double|bool|char|int|short|long|sizeof|enum|void|static|const|struct|union|typedef|extern|signed|unsigned|inline)\>" # color green "\<(class|namespace|template|public|protected|private|typename|this|friend|virtual|using|mutable|volatile|register|explicit)\>" # color brightyellow "\<(for|if|while|do|else|case|default|switch|goto|continue|break|return)\>" # color brightyellow "\<(try|throw|catch|operator|new|delete)\>" # color brightcyan "^ *# *(define|undef|include|ifn?def|endif|elif|else|if)" # color brightmagenta "'([^\]|(\\['abfnrtv\\]))'" "'\\(([0-7][0-7]?)|([0-3][0-7][0-7]))'" "'\\x[0-9A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f]?'" ## ## 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=""(\\.|[^\"])*\\ *$" end="^(\\.|[^\"])*"" ## ## And we want to have some nice comment highlighting too # color brightblue "//.*" # color brightblue start="/\*" end="\*/" ## Here is a short example for HTML # syntax "HTML" "\.html$" # color blue 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]$" # color red "\<(accept|alarm|atan2|bin(d|mode)|c(aller|h(dir|mod|op|own|root)|lose(dir)?|onnect|os|rypt)|d(bm(close|open)|efined|elete|ie|o|ump)|e(ach|of|val|x(ec|ists|it|p))|f(cntl|ileno|lock|ork))\>" # color red "\<(get(c|login|peername|pgrp|ppid|priority|pwnam|(host|net|proto|serv)byname|pwuid|grgid|(host|net)byaddr|protobynumber|servbyport)|([gs]et|end)(pw|gr|host|net|proto|serv)ent|getsock(name|opt)|gmtime|goto|grep|hex|index|int|ioctl|join)\>" # color red "\<(keys|kill|last|length|link|listen|local(time)?|log|lstat|m|mkdir|msg(ctl|get|snd|rcv)|next|oct|open(dir)?|ord|pack|pipe|pop|printf?|push|q|qq|qx|rand|re(ad(dir|link)?|cv|do|name|quire|set|turn|verse|winddir)|rindex|rmdir|s|scalar|seek(dir)?)\>" # color red "\<(se(lect|mctl|mget|mop|nd|tpgrp|tpriority|tsockopt)|shift|shm(ctl|get|read|write)|shutdown|sin|sleep|socket(pair)?|sort|spli(ce|t)|sprintf|sqrt|srand|stat|study|substr|symlink|sys(call|read|tem|write)|tell(dir)?|time|tr(y)?|truncate|umask)\>" # color red "\<(un(def|link|pack|shift)|utime|values|vec|wait(pid)?|wantarray|warn|write)\>" # color magenta "\<(continue|else|elsif|do|for|foreach|if|unless|until|while|eq|ne|lt|gt|le|ge|cmp|x|my|sub|use|package|can|isa)\>" # color cyan start="[$@%]" 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$" # color green "\<(boolean|byte|char|double|float|int|long|new|short|this|transient|void)\>" # color red "\<(break|case|catch|continue|default|do|else|finally|for|if|return|switch|throw|try|while)\>" # color cyan "\<(abstract|class|extends|final|implements|import|instanceof|interface|native|package|private|protected|public|static|strictfp|super|synchronized|throws|volatile)\>" # color red ""[^\"]*"" # color yellow "\<(true|false|null)\>" # color blue "//.*" # color blue start="/\*" end="\*/" # color brightblue start="/\*\*" end="\*/" # color brightgreen,green " +$" ## Here is an example for patch files ## # syntax "patch" "\.(patch|diff)$" # color brightgreen "^\+.*" # color green "^\+\+\+.*" # color brightblue "^ .*" # color brightred "^-.*" # color red "^---.*" # color brightyellow "^@@.*" # color magenta "^diff.*" ## Here is an example for manpages ## # syntax "manpage" "\.[1-9]x?$" # color green "\.(S|T)H.*$" # color brightgreen "\.(S|T)H" "\.TP" # color brightred "\.(BR?|I[PR]?).*$" # color brightblue "\.(BR?|I[PR]?|PP)" # color brightwhite "\\f[BIPR]" # color yellow "\.(br|DS|RS|RE|PD)" ## Here is an example for your .nanorc ## # syntax "nanorc" "(\.|/|)nanorc$" ## highlight possible errors and parameters # color brightwhite "^ *(set|unset|syntax|color).*$" ## set, unset and syntax # color cyan "^ *(set|unset) +(autoindent|backup|backupdir|backwards|brackets|casesensitive|const|cut|fill|historylog|morespace|mouse|multibuffer|noconvert|nofollow|nohelp|nowrap|operatingdir|preserve|punct|quickblank|quotestr|rebinddelete|regexp|smarthome|smooth)\>" # color cyan "^ *(set|unset) +(speller|suspend|tabsize|tabstospaces|tempfile|view|whitespace)" # color green "^ *(set|unset|syntax)\>" ## colors # color yellow "^ *color *(bright)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan)(,(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan))?\>" # color magenta "^ *color\>" "\<(start|end)=" ## strings # color white "\"(\\.|[^\"])*\"" ## comments # color blue " *#.*$"