Hello Nancy,

(Nothing disappeared from your email, it's just that you send HTML
email, and apparently the formatting is so strange that only part
of the text made it to the plain text version.  The full text is
still present in part 2, the text/html segment.  It's better not
to use HTML when sending technical emails.)

About the "expanded whitespace" in the XWBPRS.m file, I think I see
what you mean: some pieces of text become brighter, others darker --
if you use a terminal with a white background, the lighter pieces
become just about invisible.

To solve this, instead of deleting objc.nanorc, I suggest you add
the following three lines at the end of your ~/.nanorc:

syntax "mumps" "\.m$"
color yellow ""[^"]*""  # Strings.
color green ";[^"].*$"  # Comments.

Save it, and then open XWBPRS.m again with nano and see how you
like it.  (If you use a dark background, you may want to use
brightyellow and cyan instead.  Or is your terminal not capable
of color?)

If one day you should want to color some Obj-C file correctly,
you can use -Ym.

> I had a feeling this was really a feature, and not a bug. :-)

Indeed, it is a feature.  The difference between 2.2.6 and more
recent versions is that in 2.2.6 the user had to explicitly
enable the include statements in /etc/nanorc, while nowadays
all available syntaxes are included and enabled by default.
For most users this is a nice surprise.  But for a few who use
files that have the same extension as files of other languages
it will cause frowns.

Benno

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