[PATCH] syntax: html: remove the special highlighting of the b, i, and u elements

Hussam al-Homsi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.nano.devel
Message-ID <CAJebAKts0cY0+oFBDOCmz=CLmAjf5XCXDfTsbJx3G8RfLMwyTA@mail.gmail.com>
Those elements usually have a stylistic effect, but in modern HTML
they just have a semantic meaning. Also, they're not any more special
than other elements that usually have a stylistic effect, such as the
s element, which usually results in strike-through text.

The HTML standard notes that "style sheets can be used to format b
elements, just like any other element can be restyled. Thus, it is not
the case that content in b elements will necessarily be boldened [1]."

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-b-element
0001-syntax-html-remove-the-special-highlighting-of-the-b.patch (text/x-patch, 899 B)
From 4870b1fa57b44bf35e82ccc69fb57d7003f99ad8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hussam al-Homsi <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2022 20:34:53 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] syntax: html: remove the special highlighting of the b, i,
 and u elements

They don't necessarily represent bold, italic, or underlined text, and they're
not any more special than, say, the s element. They're now highlighted just like
any other element.

Signed-off-by: Hussam al-Homsi <[email protected]>
---
 syntax/html.nanorc | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/syntax/html.nanorc b/syntax/html.nanorc
index 7a099de9..e011228e 100644
--- a/syntax/html.nanorc
+++ b/syntax/html.nanorc
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ formatter tidy -m -q
 
 # Tags:
 color cyan "<[[:alpha:]/!?][^>]*>"
-# Bold, italic, and underlined:
-color brightmagenta "</?[biu]>"
 
 # Named character references:
 color red "&[^;[:space:]]*;"
-- 
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