nano

commit 43ebabe05d89118b036c4bf07a296340b037b4d3
parent b6366411dc06c9c15ab6a7c7333416c8826dcbc0
Author: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Date:   Sat, 11 Sep 2021 17:50:11 +0200

docs: mention how to properly colorize all types in nano's source code

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README.GIT
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1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/README.GIT b/README.GIT
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ Problems?
 Please submit any bugs you find in the code in git via the bug tracker
 on Savannah (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano).
 
-
 Contributing something
 ----------------------
 
@@ -114,3 +113,11 @@ to include 'set tabsize 4', or you could use -T4 on the command line.
 To make git display things as intended, you can do:
 
     $ git config --local core.pager "less -x1,5"
+
+To see all types that are used in nano's source code colorized as types,
+you can add these lines to your ~/.nanorc:
+
+    extendsyntax c color green "\<struct (dirent|option|passwd)\>"
+    extendsyntax c color green "\<struct (sigaction|stat|termios)\>"
+    extendsyntax c color green "\<struct (timespec|vt_stat|winsize)\>"
+    extendsyntax c color green "\<([[:lower:]_]+(struct|type)|va_list)\>"