On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:53:21PM +0100, Neil Brown wrote:
> I've recently installed nano on my system while giving linux from
scratch a
> go. I'm very pleased and like the idea of the colour syntax highlighting
> but my system has no colours other than white and bright white. My system
> is as follows:
>
> neil ~/work: nano --version
> GNU nano version 1.2.1 (compiled 21:47:46, Jun 18 2003)
> Email: address@hidden Web: http://www.nano-editor.org/
> Compiled options: --enable-extra --enable-color --enable-multibuffer
> --enable-nanorc
>
> I'm not sure what I did wrong in the install step, can anyone point me in
> the right direction?
Colour isn't enabled by default in the config files. Have a look at
nanorc.sample in the tar.gz. At the end you'll see some rules for colour
syntaxes. If you uncomment them, you'll get colour. Oh, install that
file as ~/.nanorc, of course.