nanorc/Readme.rst

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Improved Nano Syntax Highlighting Files
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This repository holds ``{lang}.nanorc`` files that have improved
definitions of syntax highlighting for various languages.


1. Copy files
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These should be placed inside of the ``~/.nano/`` directory. 
Or for system-wide installation ``/usr/share/nano-syntax-highlighting/``.
In other words::

    git clone git@github.com:scopatz/nanorc.git ~/.nano

*Note - if you have any issues (ssh was not properly configured), alternatively use::

    git clone https://github.com/scopatz/nanorc.git ~/.nano
    
*System wide will look like so*::

    sudo git clone https://github.com/scopatz/nanorc.git /usr/share/nano-syntax-highlighting/

**NOTE**: \< and \> are regular character escapes on macOS. The bug's fixed in Nano, but this might be a problem
if you are using an older version. If this is the case, replace them respectively with [[:<:]] and [[:>:]].
This is reported in `issue 52 <https://github.com/scopatz/nanorc/issues/52>`_

2. Configure ``nano``
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Once there you should add the languages you want to your
nano configuration file ``~/.nanorc``.  For example::

    ## C/C++
    include "~/.nano/c.nanorc"

You can also append the contents of ``~/.nano/nanorc`` into your
``~/.nanorc`` to include all languages::

    cat ~/.nano/nanorc >> ~/.nanorc
    
Or to be less verbose, append content of the folder in one line with wildcard::

    ## For all users
    $ echo "include $install_path/*.nanorc" >> /etc/nanorc 
    ## For current user
    $ echo "include $install_path/*.nanorc" >> ~/.nanorc
    
where ``$install_path`` is ``/usr/share/nano-syntax-highlighting`` or ``~/.nano/`` or ...

1a.  Automatic installer
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Finally, you can run an automatic installer using the following code::

    $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scopatz/nanorc/master/install.sh | sh

or alternatively::

    $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scopatz/nanorc/master/install.sh -O- | sh

*Note -
    some syntax definitions which exist in Nano upstream may be preferable to the ones provided by this package.
    The install.sh script may be run with ``-l`` or ``--lite`` to insert the included syntax definitions from this package
    with lower precedence than the ones provided by the standard package.
    
    
1b. Distributive specific installation via package managers
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On **Arch Linux** and other *pacman/aur* based systems it is possible to::

    $ yaourt nano-syntax-highlight

Then you need to mannually add ``.nanorc``-s to user's ``~/.nanorc`` or system ``/etc/nanorc``. See **$2**