Re: [Help-nano] No colour

[Jordi Mallach]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:53:21PM +0100, Neil Brown wrote:
> I've recently installed nano on my system while giving linux from scratch a 
> go.  I'm very pleased and like the idea of the colour syntax highlighting 
> but my system has no colours other than white and bright white.  My system 
> is as follows:
> 
> neil ~/work: nano --version
>  GNU nano version 1.2.1 (compiled 21:47:46, Jun 18 2003)
>  Email: address@hidden    Web: http://www.nano-editor.org/
>  Compiled options: --enable-extra --enable-color --enable-multibuffer 
> --enable-nanorc
> 
> I'm not sure what I did wrong in the install step, can anyone point me in 
> the right direction?

Colour isn't enabled by default in the config files. Have a look at
nanorc.sample in the tar.gz. At the end you'll see some rules for colour
syntaxes. If you uncomment them, you'll get colour. Oh, install that
file as ~/.nanorc, of course.

Jordi
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