Nano

Up until very recently, I was primarily a user of nano for editing text. I still believe that for most uses, nano is powerful enough yet simple enough to be a very useful editor.

Recently I have switched to using GNU emacs (from the terminal). I wrestled with it for a while to get it to behave the way I wanted (which is a weird amalgam of nano behaviour, and various other influences).

My primary uses for a text editor are to edit Haskell, C++, and LaTeX (with a little Rain). These pages are for me to put up my configuration files for nano and emacs in case anyone else finds them useful.

Here are some syntax highlighting modes for nano:

syntax "cpp-file" ".*\.c$" ".*\.cpp$" ".*\.h$"
 color brightblue  "\<float\>" "\<char\>" "\<int\>"
 color brightblue "\<void\>" "\<bool\>" "\<double\>"
 color brightblue "\<static\>" "\<const\>" "\<struct\>"
 color brightblue "\<inline\>" "\<class\>" "\<union\>"
 color brightblue "\<if\>" "\<while\>" "\<do\>"
 color brightblue "\<else\>" "\<case\>" "\<switch\>"
 color brightblue "\<return\>" "\<for\>" "\<namespace\>"
 color brightblue "\<template\>" "\<public\>"
 color brightblue "\<protected\>" "\<private\>"
 color brightblue "\<typename\>" "\<long\>" "\<short\>"
 color brightblue "\<this\>" "\<unsigned\>" "\<signed\>"
 color brightblue "\<typedef\>" "\<friend\>"
 color brightblue "\<virtual\>" "\<using\>" "\<try\>"
 color brightblue "\<throw\>" "\<catch\>" "\<break\>"
 color brightblue "\<continue\>" "\<operator\>"
 color brightblue "\<sizeof\>" "\<mutable\>"
 color brightblue "\<volatile\>" "\<register\>"
 color brightblue "\<goto\>" "\<new\>" "\<delete\>"
 color brightblue "\<default\>" "\<enum\>" "\<explicit\>"
 color brightblue "\<extern\>"

 color red "#define" "#include" "#ifn*def" "#endif" 
 color red "#elif" "#else" "#if" "#undef"
 color brightwhite "\<true\>" "\<false\>" "\<NULL\>"
#For C++CSP:
 color brightwhite "\<...2...Channel\>" "\<DATA_TYPE\>"
 color green "//.*"
 color green start="/\*" end="\*/"

#Rain -- in progress:
syntax "rain-file" ".*\.rain$"
 color brightblue "\<if\>" "\<while\>"
 color brightblue "\<seqeach\>" "\<pareach\>" "\<par\>"
 color brightblue "\<seq\>" "\<return\>" "\<true\>"
 color brightblue "\<false\>"
 color red "\<[su]int[[:digit:]]+\>" "\<int\>"
 color red "\?" "!"
 color red ":"
 color yellow "\<process\>" "\<function\>"

syntax "haskell-file" ".*\.hs$"
 color brightred "\|" "->" "<-" "@" "!" "~" "=>" "&&" "="
 color brightblue "^[[:space:]]*[^\"[:space:]]*[[:space:]]*::"
 color brightblue "::"
 color red "\<import\>" 

 color yellow "\<as\>" "\<case\>" "\<of\>"
 color yellow "\<class\>" "\<data\>" "\<default\>"
 color yellow "\<deriving\>" "\<do\>" "\<forall\>"
 color yellow "\<foreign\>" "\<hiding\>" "\<if\>"
 color yellow "\<then\>" "\<else\>" "\<_\>"
 color yellow "\<infix\>" "\<infixl\>" "\<infixr\>"
 color yellow "\<instance\>" "\<let\>" "\<in\>"
 color yellow "\<mdo\>" "\<module\>" "\<newtype\>"
 color yellow "\<qualified\>" "\<type\>" "\<where\>"

 color green "--.*"
 color green start="\{\-" end="\-\}"

syntax "TeX" "\.tex$"
 color red "\\(.|([A-Za-z]*))\{"
 color red "\}"
 color green "%.*"