Re: [Help-nano] No colour

[Neil Brown]

At 05:14 PM 23/06/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> 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.

My apologies, I had not told the full story (my mind is elsewhere today I 
think!)  I have uncommented the syntax colouring, I get limited syntax 
highlighting, but only white and bright white (e.g atm C comments and 
keywords appear bright white), despite being in the config file as bright 
blue/bright green.

Thanks for the prompt response,

Neil.