My nano doesn't want to display syntax highlighting for html.
My ~/.nanorc contains the following:
include ~/.nano/syntax/html.nanorc
include ~/.nano/syntax/css.nanorc
include ~/.nano/syntax/php.nanorc
include ~/.nano/syntax/python.nanorc
And it works for css, php and python. I tried commenting out their lines and the syntax highlighting stopped.
I also tried changing colors of things in the respective files and the highlighting changed.
The html.nanorc contains:
syntax "html" "\.html?$"
header "<!doctype html"
color magenta "\<(accept|accept-charset|accesskey|action|alt|async|autocomplete|autofocus|autoplay|border|challenge|charset|checked|cite|class|cols|cols$
color brightwhite,red "</?[A-Za-z0-9_]+[ >]"
color brightmagenta "</?(a|abbr|address|area|article|aside|audio|b|base|bdo|blockquote|body|br|button|center|canvas|caption|cite|code|col|colgroup$
color yellow "=([A-Za-z0-9!$%*\^(){}#|:;_~@+,.?/\\-]|\[|\])+"
color red "="
color yellow ""(\\.|[^"])*"|'(\\.|[^'])*'"
color white start=">" end="<"
color brightmagenta "[<>]"
# Embedded template languages
color brightyellow "\{\{[^}]*\}\}|<%=.*%>"
color brightblue start="<\?" end="\?>"
color brightblue start="<%[^=]" end="%>"
color brightblue start="\{%" end="%\}"
color magenta "&(#[0-9]+|#x[0-9a-fA-F]+|[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*);"
color cyan start="<!--" end="-->"
color cyan "<!(doctype|DOCTYPE)[^>]*>"
color ,green "[[:space:]]+$"
color ,red " + +| + +"
# +EXTRALINT
And I can't find anything wrong with it.
When I open a html file with
nano test.html
all the text is just white/grey. HOWEVER, if i run it as root with
sudo nano test.html
the highlighting works.
My nano and debian version is
GNU nano version 2.2.6 (compiled 16:56:37, Jul 16 2014)
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.11 (jessie)
Release: 8.11
Codename: jessie
Linux <server> 3.16.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.57-2 (2018-07-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux
I don't really know how to continue from where so would really appreciate some help.
