Nano colors spaces and tabs

Question

When I use nano to edit my C file it shows all of the spaces or tabs in green coloring. I thought this may have been an issue with "whitespace display" and tried enabling and disabling it but it didnt work. I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling nano and that didnt work either.

Any ideas on what this could be and how to fix it?

Do you have solarized or another color scheme enabled in the terminal/emulator? — lthreed, Aug 19 '14 at 02:41
I changed the default background from system to black. It seems to be some setting in nano. — , Aug 20 '14 at 01:02

score 18 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 23 '14 at 12:33

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I just discovered the cause of this. By default in the /usr/share/c.nanorc file "Trailing Whitespace" is turned on all the time. This was annoying to me so I commented it out, ##, do stop it from appearing.

answered Aug 23 '14 at 12:33

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On my system, the config file was located at `/usr/share/nano/c.nanorc`. – Jan Bodnar Jan 20 '17 at 15:11

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 24 '19 at 07:21

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Ctrl + G -> Help

there is:

Alt + Y -> Color syntax highlighting enable/disable

Helps for me. Also many other cool features!

edited Sep 24 '19 at 07:21

RobC

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answered Sep 23 '19 at 18:14

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Nano colors spaces and tabs

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