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Tue, 04/10/2007 - 17:01

Use the snippet below in your ~/.nanorc or /etc/nanorc file to highlight *.ini files like php.ini in Nano.

  1. # ini highlighting
  2. syntax "ini" "\.ini(\.old|~)?$"
  3.  
  4. # values
  5. color brightred "=.*$"
  6. # equal sign
  7. color green "="
  8. # numbers
  9. color brightblue "-?[0-9\.]+\s*($|;)"
  10. # ON/OFF
  11. color brightmagenta "ON|OFF|On|Off|on|off\s*($|;)"
  12. # sections
  13. color brightcyan "^\s*\[.*\]"
  14. # keys
  15. color cyan "^\s*[a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+"
  16. # comments
  17. color brightyellow ";.*$"

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Thanks, handy. Sun, 02/27/2011 - 04:09 — Brian (not verified)

Thanks, handy.

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