[Nano-devel] syntax colouring for autoconf files

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi all,

Scratching a little itch, I've made a syntax file for configure.ac.
It uses the same colours as vim does on my system, and now colours
an autoconf nearly the same way as vim.  The only differences are:
it does not colour the conventional three stars that start an error
message, and it does colour the ! in !=.  Also does it not colour
what is between backticks the same as strings, as vim does.

Below is the file.  Comments, corrections and improvements are
welcome.

syntax "autoconf" "\.ac$"

# Keywords:
color yellow "\<(if|test|then|else|fi|for|in|do|done)\>"
color yellow "(=|!=|&&|\|\|)"

# Macros:
color cyan "\<[[:upper:]_[:digit:]]+\>"

# Version numbers:
color red "\<[-_.0-9]+\>"

# Strings:
color red "\"[^"]*\""  "\'[^']*\'"

# Backticks:
color green "`[^`]*`"

# Error lines:
color black "^\*\*\*.*"

# Brackets:
color magenta "\[|\]|\(|\)"

# Comments:
color blue "^[[:blank:]]*#.*"  "^dnl.*"


Benno

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