commit c95e5362e618ee4327d3f37aef94f0101c055341
parent 2698a2ba687cb5f5bc49aa6011b6dee9c35a5f39
Author: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 14:27:29 +0200
docs: mention that color rules are applied in the order they are listed
Suggested-by: Tiago Almeida <tjamadeira@gmail.com>
Diffstat:
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/nano.texi b/doc/nano.texi
@@ -1077,6 +1077,9 @@ stronger highlight.
If your terminal supports transparency, not specifying a "bgcolor"
tells @command{nano} to attempt to use a transparent background.
+All coloring commands are applied in the order in which they are specified,
+which means that later commands can recolor stuff that was colored earlier.
+
@item icolor @var{fgcolor},@var{bgcolor} "@var{regex}" @dots{}
Same as above, except that the matching is case insensitive.
diff --git a/doc/nanorc.5 b/doc/nanorc.5
@@ -411,6 +411,9 @@ one of which must be specified. Valid color names are:
You may use the prefix \fBbright\fR for the foreground color to get a
stronger highlight. If your terminal supports transparency, not specifying
a \fIbgcolor\fP tells \fBnano\fP to attempt to use a transparent background.
+.sp
+All coloring commands are applied in the order in which they are specified,
+which means that later commands can recolor stuff that was colored earlier.
.TP
.BI "icolor " fgcolor , bgcolor " """ regex """ " \fR...
Same as above, except that the matching is case insensitive.
diff --git a/doc/sample.nanorc.in b/doc/sample.nanorc.in
@@ -238,6 +238,9 @@
## yellow, magenta, cyan. For foreground colors, you may use the
## prefix "bright" to get a stronger highlight.
##
+## All color commands are applied in the order in which they are specified,
+## meaning that later commands can recolor stuff that was colored earlier.
+##
## All regexes (regular expressions) are of the extended type (ERE).
##
## To use multi-line regexes, use the start="regex" end="regex"