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Re: [Help-nano] Bash syntax highlighting: Quoted text in comments
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Benno Schulenberg |
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Re: [Help-nano] Bash syntax highlighting: Quoted text in comments |
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Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:11:30 +0100 |
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Hello Michael,
Op 17-02-18 om 04:29 schreef Michael Siegel:
> I've found that nano has kind of an annoying way of highlighting quoted
> text within comments in Bash scripts.
>
> While the comments themselves are colored in cyan, quoted text within
> them will be given the standard string color, which is bright yellow.
>
> For example, try this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> # Let's see if this won't happen.
>
> What you'll get is "# Let" in cyan, "'s see if this won'" in yellow and
> the rest in cyan again.
>
> I suppose this is a known issue. Maybe it has already been fixed in
> versions newer than the one I'm using (2.7.4). If not, what's the
> problem and is someone trying to fix it?
Thanks for pointing this out.
In general, it cannot be fixed. Nano does not do a full parse of the
script -- it simply uses regexes to color certain patterns. This means
that either you get quoted things in comments highlighted as strings,
or you get the part of a string after " #" highlighted as a comment.
The first option has been chosen.
You could change the order of the Comments and Strings commands
("color cyan" and "color brightyellow") in /usr/share/nano/sh.nanorc.
But that has the disadvantage of getting overwritten upon the next
update of nano.
Better would be to add in your nanorc file:
extendsyntax sh color cyan "(^|[[:space:]])#.*$"
That will make sure that comments are always colored in cyan.
But... maybe a point could be made that quotes in comments are more
common than space plus hash in strings? What do you think? Do you
have a large set of scripts that you can grep?
(I now see that the order of comment and string highlighting was
changed in the beginning of 2014, from nano-2.3.2 onwards. Maybe
that swap should be turned back?)
Benno
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