FYI... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:44:05 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Miller To: Help-Octave List <help at octave.org> Subject: Re: nano syntax highlighting for Octave? On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Ben Abbott wrote: > >> On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at 02:47PM, "Mike Miller" <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm really more of an Emacs guy, but for students I recommend Nano to >>> get them started. I've been working on getting the syntax >>> highlighting to work for various kinds of scripts. I found something >>> for R and modified it to produce what you see below (don't blame >>> Haptonstahl if anything is broken in that code because it might be my >>> fault). I think it works fairly well but there is definitely room for >>> improvement. >>> >>> Of course I'd like some nano syntax highlighting code for Octave >>> and/or MATLAB if anybody out here has worked on that. Thanks in >>> advance. >> >> I haven't tried it, but a Google turned this link up. >> >> http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6798 > > > Thanks, Ben. I'm sure that will help. I think I was searching too much > for Octave and not enough for MATLAB. > > I'll edit that file and send it to the list. I played around a little with the code I found at the URL above and created the attached text file. To use it, just append it to your ~/.nanorc file. There's also a systemwide way to use it, but I don't know offhand. Also see the attached screenshot PNG file. It looks nice now (I'm using xterm with white on black and haven't tested with black on white), but I know it is still a little messed up -- I can see that some functions are repeated and I'm sure others are missing. I don't have time to work on it much now. I don't know how to retrieve lists of different types of functions, or even if there is a way to do that. Nano is Free Software. It is pretty lightweight and useful as a viewer. Just use the -v option to turn off editing functionality: nano -v file.m Best, Mike -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: octave_nanorc.txt Url: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100313/62df83b7/attachment-0001.txt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: nano_octave.png Type: image/png Size: 34350 bytes Desc: Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100313/62df83b7/attachment-0001.png
