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From: | nano |
Subject: | [Help-nano] Understanding syntax highlighting in nano |
Date: | Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:28:46 +1030 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 |
Greetings, I used pine and pico way back in the day, and after a 'brief' hiatus I'm back in the groove and looking to customise my coding environment. nano seems to offer everything I need in a cheerful editor, so I'm looking to wrap my head around the syntax highlighting and settle in for the long haul. I have two questions I hope someone can help with: 1) I suspect that the eight basic colours that can be selected —
white,
black, red, blue, green, yellow, magenta, and cyan — map directly
(and numerically) to the terminal palette (which, in my case, is
GNOME Terminal 3.18.3 on Ubuntu 16.04.3). If that's the case,
then the only way I can manipulate the palette is to do so
at the terminal level — correct? 2) I'm familiar with Perl regular expressions, but the regexes used in syntax files seem to be a tad different. I gather from the docs that they are 'extended regular expressions'. Am I to understand from this that we have full support of everything in Chapter 3 of the GNU Grep 3 Manual (http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html#Regular-Expressions)? Cheers! Tim |
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