Re: [Nano-devel] question + attached php syntax highlight

[David Lawrence Ramsey]

--- "smeevil" <address@hidden> wrote:
>I am using nano daily for scripting php and perl. The shortcuts and
>functions are great but i am missing 2 things or maybe i just cant find
>how to use/activate them.

Neither of them are in nano at the moment, so you're not missing
anything.

>The first one is line numbers. i now use ^_ to jump to a line number if
>i get a parse error. Or to see at what line number i am at i use ^C but
>i would be really nice if one could just see line numbers in front of
>each line.

Adding this would be rather complicated given the current code.  In the
meantime, you can use M-C to always display the current line number on
the statusbar.

>The second one is indenting a block of selected text. Most editors
>allow to select a textblock and then hit tab to give a tab in front if
>each line of the selected text and shift-tab to pull back a tab for
>each line in the selected line of text.
>
>I tried to select the textblock with M-a then hit ^-i or just tab but
>that does not work alas.

Tab needs to work the way it does now for compatibility with Pico. 
Another key could be used for marked indentation, though.

>I hope you can tell me if there is an option to activate this or else
>if you would be willing and have the time to code this in the future.

There are a lot of other things that need to be done first in terms of
design issues, bug fixes, and other bits of improved functionality. 
After they're finished, coding this might be an option.

>This mail has an attachment which is a syntax highlighting i made for
>php and perl. Its far from complete but it does the job in general. i
>hope you can use it or make it available for anyone who would like to
>use it.

There doesn't appear to be an attachment on this email.  Maybe try
sending it again?  Thanks for your input, in any case.


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