Questions tagged [syntax-highlighting]

Question 1

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 ...

Question 2

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 ...

Question 3

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: ...

Question 4

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 ...

Question 6

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 ...

Question 8

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?

Question 9

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

Question 10

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 ...

Question 11

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 ...

Question 12

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 ...

Question 13

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 ...

Question 14

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 '·'...

Question 15

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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Questions tagged [syntax-highlighting]

Nvim syntax highlighting disabled by screen command [duplicate]

How can I Colorize my custom .bashrc file w/ nano in shell

.jsf (JOE editor) syntax highlighting for todo.txt

gtksourceview: syntax highlight for language groff in gedit

What's overriding my .vimrc tabstop size setting for CMake files?

How do I get rid of this leading space highlighting in Nano (Ubuntu)?

nano unhighlight string if a quote is escaped

Any 'cat' colorized tool? [duplicate]

Terminal is losing the blink and is not showing text after using (batcat)

Vim color problem

nano highlighting fails in matching shell array brackets

How to enable the highlighting of the file "/etc/login.defs" on Ubuntu?

Export nano's syntax highlighting

Color filenames according to $LS_COLORS in vim

VIM run hardcopy commands on file ALREADY OPENED by another VIM

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