I made a ~/.nanorc as I did not have one and pasted in what you gave me. When I tried to edit the file, I got these errors, and I am afraid I don't know how to fix them. I tried surrounding with one more double quote on either end of the Regex and tried a single quote at the ends of the Regex to no avail. HOWEVER, when I hit enter to continue using nano, the problem was GONE so something worked!
Nancy Anthracite On Monday, January 2, 2017 3:24:03 PM EST Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > 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 >
