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How to enable syntax highlighting for nano in Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)?
According to what I found so far on Google is that it has got to do with /.nanorc file. I have no idea how to get it or make it?
When I try to find nano in my terminal this is what I get:
Notra:~ Sukhvir$ whereis nano /usr/bin/nano According to what I found on Internet this is the file I need to edit:
~/.nanorc But how do I get to it/how to open it/if I don't have it then how to make it?
I am a bit new to programming folks, so step-by-step instructions will be highly appreciated.
I need it for C mainly.
According to what I found online, I have to paste this into the .nanorc file:
include "/usr/share/nano/nanorc.nanorc" include "/usr/share/nano/c.nanorc" However this will not work because there is no such directory as /usr/share/nano.
I also just did ls /usr/share/ and according to the results there is no nano in that directory. Is this a Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) issue or an issue on my Mac?
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In order to enable syntax highlighting for nano in Cygwin, you will need to create ~/. nanorc , which is the file that nano looks for when loading syntax highlighting.
GNU nano (or nano) is a text editor which aims to introduce a simple interface and intuitive command options to console based text editing. nano supports features including colorized syntax highlighting, DOS/Mac file type conversions, spellchecking and UTF-8 encoding.
nanorc files are installed in /opt/local/share/nano (including a python. nanorc ).
On Mac, Homebrew (brew) will allow you to easily upgrade nano to a newer version than the one that came with Mac OSX.
Install brew, then install a new version of nano from the Terminal.
brew install nano Installing this way includes the /usr/local/share/nano folder containing the default syntax highlight files. See also the extra subdirectory.
To enable all default syntaxes, add a wildcard include to your ~/.nanorc.
include "/usr/local/share/nano/*.nanorc" For Apple Silicon (M1), the path is under /opt/homebrew/:
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