Re: How to change nano background color

On 30/10/15 01:12, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015, at 21:31, Matthew Hebley wrote:
>> I upgraded from nano to nano 2.
> You seem to be running nano on a Mac.  How did you upgrade?  Did
> Apple provide the upgrade?  Or did you compile it yourself?
>
> Could you please provide the output of 'nano --version'?
Yes. You are correct. I am running it on Mac.

I (believe I) compiled it from nano-3.4.1.tar.gz. Can't remember the 
reason I upgraded. Maybe I should try 2.4.2, or try to revert to the 
original Apple version. (Sorry, I don't keep meticulous records.)

 > nano --version
  GNU nano, version 2.4.1
  (C) 1999..2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  Email: [email protected]    Web: http://www.nano-editor.org/
  Compiled options: --disable-libmagic --disable-nls --enable-utf8

>> Now the background always reverts from
>> my shell background to black even if I turn off the rc file (nano -I).
>>
>> How do I make nano 2 use the same background color as my shell?
> Normally it should.  What shell, or rather, what terminal emulator
> are you using?  My terminal background is offwhite, and so it is
> too in nano 2.4.2 and 2.2.6 and any other version I've used.
>
I'm running Mac Terminal Version 2.5.3 (343.7) with bash.

 > bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 > more /etc/nanorc
set nowrap

 > more ~/.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/asm.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/awk.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/c.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/changelog.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/cmake.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/css.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/debian.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/default.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/fortran.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/gentoo.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/go.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/groff.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/html.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/java.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/javascript.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/json.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/lua.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/makefile.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/man.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/mgp.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/mutt.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/nanorc.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/objc.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/ocaml.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/patch.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/perl.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/php.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/po.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/pov.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/python.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/ruby.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/sh.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/spec.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/tcl.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/tex.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/texinfo.nanorc
include /usr/local/share/nano/xml.nanorc