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When I open up neovim on my raspbian device the syntax highlighting works perfectly well. As soon as I use the screen command (to create a multi-paned setup) nvim becomes black and white. Colors ...
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im using an arch linux variant with xfce, opening up a terminal shell and running sudo nano .bashrc I can see the file is colorized despite there being no headers referencing a schema. Looking inside ...
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I can't get the JOE editor to highlight tags like due:YYYY-MM-TT for due dates or rec:NP for recurrences to work; I was able to highlight prioritized tasks though. A sample todo.txt looks like this: ...
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Sciancisco and I developed a syntax highlighter for the Groff markup language to be used with Gedit, Pluma, Xed etc. I installed it in /usr/share/gtksourceview-4/language-specs/groff.lang and it ...
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In my ~/.vim/vimrc, I have: set shiftwidth=4 set tabstop=4 and when I edit a plain text file, that is respected. However, when I edit a CMake file - these both becomes 8. I tried looking for the ...
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Here's an image: Every time I type something with a leading tab, I get this obnoxious green/teal background until I type a value in for that line. Also, for some reason on line 27, the color I ...
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I'm trying to unhighlight string if one of the quotes is escaped. sh.nanorc regex is as follows: color brightyellow ""(\\.|[^"])*"" I'm having success with the closing quote ...
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I sometimes cat a c file or a JSON file, there is no colorful format text. Is there any command line tool that can show colorful format text as it is in ex: gedit?
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So, I used batcat to syntax highlight a file in the terminal. After I close it through Ctrl + C, my cursor stops blinking and I cant see the text I type in my terminal. Error
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I've a strange problem with vim editor: if i write a simple text, all is normal, white text If i add shebang, save and exit...reopen and ..color change after first line! :(( Can you help me?! Thanks ...
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The last two array expansions don't get proper highlighting: This is the setting in sh.nanorc that defines it: # More complicated variable names; handles braces and replacements and arrays. color ...
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When I open the file /etc/login.defs on a RHEL 8.3 system, it looks like this: As you can see, it highlights the content. But when I open the same file in a Ubuntu 20.04 system, there is no ...
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I like how nano highlights bash scripts and I often use GNOME terminal's "Copy as HTML" option to copy/paste the color highlights to LibreOffice when writing documentation. That works fine ...
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I'm writing a simple vim syntax file for random note takings for work. I would like to color filenames according to $LS_COLORS. I can prefix a filename in the notes file with something random, like '·'...
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I adopted printing solution from https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/20448/9689 : vim -c 'hardcopy > /path/to/saved.ps' -c 'quit' /path/to/file Problem is, when I have this file opened in VIM and I ...
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I was wondering if anyone could tell me if it possible to configure syntax highlighting in .nanorc so that in the following text ... Dim s$ = "foo ' bar" ' bar "foo" ... the ...
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I am working on a new project that saves data in an XML format but does not use the XML file extension. As such, whenever I open the file in gedit I have to go and set the manually set the highlight ...
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This might be considered abuse by some, but perhaps I (and others) can learn something here. I'm using vscode and recently when editing a crontab file I was annoyed that there was no syntax ...
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I can get source highlighting to work with lesspipe or GNU source-highlight, but both depend on environment variables that are specific to less. How would I get syntax highlighting in most?
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I want to get Kate to highlight files ending in .jinja2 as html. As described here, I tried adding *.jinja2 to the markdown/html mime type using settings, but even after closing/reopening Kate, the ...
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I am looking for a program like cat but with syntax highlighting. As an example I would like to display the content of one of my Python script highlighted in the terminal without using a pager like we ...
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In ZSH, when I'm trying to cd into a directory and use tab to get the list of directories, some of them have this very bright green highlight. I noticed that the background highlight is the same as ...
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I use Geany (v1.123.1), my favourite text editor for code editing, as it's nice and simple. One thing which it doesn't do right is the syntax highlighting of comments, in erb files (a type of ruby ...
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I'm using Gnome Xed text editor. Is there a way to auto select all occurrences of currently selected-text across the document. If Xed cant do it, what other linux text editor can do it ? How ?
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When I less /some/file.ext, I get syntax highlighting by /usr/bin/lesspipe. Unfortunately, the colors are annoying and have poor visibility on my distro, by default - it's Devuan 3.0. My question: ...
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The source-highlight package is installed on my system. It highlights files I view with less using /usr/bin/lesspipe and LESSOPEN environment variable. Now, I want to change the color scheme this ...
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I use nano as my standard editor for a file type it has no build in syntax-highlighting for LilyPond. It is nothing I really need, though I'm missing out quite a lot of white-space characters at the ...
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Sometimes I write a long command in Zsh, or rather, a Zsh command ending with a long string literal containing code for another language like R or Perl, and I lose track of my parentheses, square ...
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I'm looking for a Debian editor with syntax highlight for the DOT language.
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I'm on Oracle Linux. [root@ol76 systemd]# cat /etc/*release* Oracle Linux Server release 7.6 NAME="Oracle Linux Server" VERSION="7.6" ID="ol" VARIANT="Server" VARIANT_ID="server" VERSION_ID="7.6" ...
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Running a minimal ISO of CentOS_7 I've tried writing a .sh script using vi but can't get syntax highlighting to work. Pressing escape and typing :syntax on as shown in articles like this one are not ...
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While I was working on the terminal (mac os) I pressed wrong combo then the 'def' word highlightend. I found it is very useful. How to turn on and turn off highlight on a word? (shortcut key, no ...
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Is there an easy way to make whois queries from the terminal have syntax coloring in the output so it would be easier to read? Something basic like coloring NOT FOUND in red, and field names and ...
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I noticed that when I open a file like ~/.bashrc in Vim as root, the syntax highlighting (SH) when editing a bash script as normal user (blue for comments, orange for keywords, red for numbers, etc.) ...
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I have a script the aim of which is: For a list of files, obtain a specific number for each file (this is sequencing data, to be specific) and store these into array1 Using array1, find the smallest ...
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Highlighting in vim: distinguish the lines with comment delimiter followed by special string In some cases, for example with the scripts for HPC clusters, when using SGE, TORQUE or Slurm we can have ...
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I have seen some screenshots where ranger uses syntax-highlighting in its preview window. So I was wondering how to enable this feature and found out that I need the scope.sh file in the directory /...
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Ubuntu, RaspBian and FreeBSD offer the user to choose editor on first crontab -e execution, so I selected Nano Editor. But syntax highlighting seems not be enabled. I tried the same parameter I use ...
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I am creating multiple files (.school_aliases and .git_aliases) to put my aliases in for organization. However, Vim doesn't highlight syntax for these files automatically like for .bashrc or ....
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The syntax highlighting option in a cgit installation is no working properly and I want to see if it will run properly from the command line if all the necessary parameters are present. The option in ...
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Is it possible to have vim highlight folds differently depending on whether every line in a fold is only comments or whitespace? In that case, how?
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There are a large number of not very helpful answers on this question all over the place. I have tried several. Some would require me to change settings on each remote machine I access. Some promised ...
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I'm running Linino on my Arduino Yun and I'm trying to enable Python syntax highlighting when using nano. I've looked under /usr/share but there's no nano folder there. Ctrl+G from inside nano just ...
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how can I highlight the iterator of a for loop? for example, in: for (int iter=0; iter<test; iter++) array[iter][5] = array2[iter] & (array[iter] < test2) end I want every instance of ...
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I would like to change the way I display a big (~6000 lines) log file using wim, less or whatever, in order to simplify the problem checking. I'd like to highlight some line of the log based on a ...
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For gedit, I'm creating a custom syntax highlighter for a markup-like language that I created to accomplish some natural language manipulation stuff, so I thought I'd get started with the simple ...
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I'm using prezto framework for zsh and started wondering if I really need zsh. Main features I really enjoy are: syntax highlighting for commands, fancy prompt when in a git repository and the ...
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I have a folder with subfolders that contains text files. Every now and then I run a script that makes a copy of that folder tree and then creates a new one with fresh info. After that, having the ...
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For example, when using ack to search code in source files, the output is high lighted. But if you pipe the output into a local file, you lose the code high light. Do we have a command line tool to ...
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By default when a new document is opened in Kate, the highlighting is set to normal, i.e. none. Is there any way to change this behavior, with a result that when a new "untitled" document is opened C ...
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