nano syntax highlighting not working for all languages
- by Dejan
I have a funny situation where I am unable to add custom highlighting definitions to my nano text editor.
The funny thing is that the predefined work like a charm and can be edited.
But I have created a new one for js with
$ sudo touch js.nanorc
$ sudo nano js.nanorc
my current js.nanorc looks like this:
syntax "JavaScript" "\.js$"
color blue "\<[-+]?([1-9][0-9]*|0[0-7]*|0x[0-9a-fA-F]+)([uU][lL]?|[lL][uU]?)?\>"
color blue "\<[-+]?([0-9]+\.[0-9]*|[0-9]*\.[0-9]+)([EePp][+-]?[0-9]+)?[fFlL]?"
color blue "\<[-+]?([0-9]+[EePp][+-]?[0-9]+)[fFlL]?"
color brightblue "[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*[[:space:]]*[(]"
color black "[(]"
color cyan "\<(break|case|catch|continue|default|delete|do|else|finally)\>"
color cyan "\<(for|function|get|if|in|instanceof|new|return|set|switch)\>"
color cyan "\<(switch|this|throw|try|typeof|var|void|while|with)\>"
color cyan "\<(null|undefined|NaN)\>"
color brightcyan "\<(true|false)\>"
color green "\<(Array|Boolean|Date|Enumerator|Error|Function|Math)\>"
color green "\<(Number|Object|RegExp|String)\>"
color red "[-+/*=<>!~%?:&|]"
color magenta "/[^*]([^/]|(\\/))*[^\\]/[gim]*"
color yellow ""(\\.|[^"])*"|'(\\.|[^'])*'"
color magenta "\\[0-7][0-7]?[0-7]?|\\x[0-9a-fA-F]+|\\[bfnrt'"\?\\]"
color brightblack "(^|[[:space:]])//.*"
color brightblack start="/\*" end="\*/"
color brightwhite,cyan "TODO:?"
color ,green "[[:space:]]+$"
color ,red " +"
If anyone can see the problem then please tel me
