Syntax Highlighting with nano – nanorc for nanorc

## Here is an example for nanorc files.
##
syntax "nanorc" "\.?nanorc$"
## Possible errors and parameters
icolor brightwhite "^[[:space:]]*((un)?set|include|syntax|i?color).*$"
## Keywords
icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(autoindent|backup|backupdir|backwards|boldtext|brackets|casesensitive|const|cut|fill|historylog|matchbrackets|morespace|mouse|multibuffer|noconvert|nofollow|nohelp|nonewlines|nowrap|operatingdir|preserve|punct)\>" "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(quickblank|quotestr|rebinddelete|rebindkeypad|regexp|smarthome|smooth|speller|suspend|tabsize|tabstospaces|tempfile|view|whitespace|wordbounds)\>"
icolor green "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset|include|syntax)\>"
## Colors
icolor yellow "^[[:space:]]*i?color[[:space:]]*(bright)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan)?(,(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan))?\>"
icolor magenta "^[[:space:]]*i?color\>" "\<(start|end)="
## Strings
icolor white ""(\\.|[^"])*""
## Comments
icolor brightblue "^[[:space:]]*#.*$"
icolor cyan "^[[:space:]]*##.*$"

Syntax Highlighting with nano – nanorc for named

## named.conf syntax
##
syntax "named" "named.conf"
 
color brightcyan "(\{|\}|\;)"
color brightwhite "[0-9]"
color magenta "(options|zone|IN)"
color yellow "(type|file|allow\-update|notify)"
color cyan "(directory|statistics\-file|forward\ first|forwarders|listen\-on\-v6|listen\-on|allow\-query)"
color cyan "(query\-source\ address|pid\-file)"
color brightyellow ""(\\.|[^\"])*"" "'(\\.|[^'])*'"
## comments
color green "#.*$"
color green "//.*$"

Syntax Highlighting with nano – nanorc for rcfiles

### all *rc files  ( e.g. .bashrc, inputrc, xtermcontrol .... )
syntax "rcfiles" "\rc$" "(\.|/|)control$"
color red "'(\\.|[^'])*'"
color blue ""(\\.|[^\"])*""
color magenta "[A-Z0-9\_]+="
color magenta "\<(sudo)\>"
color cyan "\<(alias)\>"
color brightcyan "\<(export)\>"
color yellow "\<(shopt)\>"
color brightred "\<(umask)\>.*$"
color green "#.*$"

Syntax Highlighting with nano – nanorc for python

## Here is an example for Python.
##
syntax "python" "\.py$"
icolor brightblue "def [0-9A-Z_]+"
color brightcyan "\<(and|assert|break|class|continue|def|del|elif|else|except|exec|finally|for|from|global|if|import|in|is|lambda|map|not|or|pass|print|raise|return|try|while)\>"
color brightgreen "["'].*[^\\]["']" "["']{3}.*[^\\]["']{3}"
color brightgreen start=""""[^"]" end=""""" start="'''[^']" end="'''"
color brightred "#.*$"

Syntax Highlighting with nano – nanorc for profile

### all *profile files ( ~/.bash_profile, /etc/profile)
syntax "profiles" "(\.|/|)profile$"
color red "'(\\.|[^'])*'"
color blue ""(\\.|[^\"])*""
color magenta "[a-zA-Z0-9\_]+="
color magenta "\<(sudo)\>"
color cyan "\<(export)\>" "\<(alias)\>"
color brightred "\<(umask)\>.*$"
color green "#.*$"

Syntax Highlighting with nano – nanorc for pov

## Here is an example for POV-Ray.
##
syntax "pov" "\.(pov|POV|povray|POVRAY)$"
color brightcyan "^[[:space:]]*#[[:space:]]*(declare)"
color brightyellow "\<(sphere|cylinder|translate|matrix|rotate|scale)\>"
color brightyellow "\<(orthographic|location|up|right|direction|clipped_by)\>"
color brightyellow "\<(fog_type|fog_offset|fog_alt|rgb|distance|transform)\>"
color brightred "^\<(texture)\>"
color brightred "\<(light_source|background)\>"
color brightred "\<(fog|object|camera)\>"
color green "(\{|\}|\(|\)|\;|\]|\[|`|\\|\$|<|>|!|=|&|\|)"
color brightmagenta "\<(union|group|subgroup)\>"
## Comment highlighting
color brightblue "//.*"
color brightblue start="/\*" end="\*/"