Nano Plain Text Syntax Highlighting nanorc File

Here is a Nano Plain Text Syntax Highlighting nanorc File For Highlighting Certain Words, Commented Out Sections While Writing as Plain Text. Normally, we use Syntax Highlighting for specific languages and markup languages, but practically sometimes the plain text files need to be colored a bit for easy readability.

 

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Apple OS X Specific :

Syntax Highlighting in Nano on OS X

Microsoft Windows Specific :

Translucent Window and Syntax Highlighting on Windows 

cygwin for Windows

 

Applicable For All POSIX Compliant Systems (it is common and must read) :

nanorc file on GitHub

 

Nano Plain Text Syntax Highlighting nanorc File

 

This is our actual code :

We have updated our GitHub nanorc repo with this new update. You can either use that or simply wget this file :

When you will open a text file with .txt extension, minimal syntax highlighting will be present. When you will type for a new text file, you will get more extensive syntax highlighting. For example, some words like https, bad, include, color are specifically colored. You need to customize according to your need although by default it will work fine.

For the plain texts actually it is quite difficult to catch the type of stuff inside.