Re: how to do syntax highlighting without opening the editor?

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:47:14 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.nano.general
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Op 24-01-2020 om 07:23 schreef Zach DeCook:
> Is there a method (or neat trick) to create syntax-highlighted-output into
> stdout without opening the editor? (Or perhaps are there other
> syntax-highlighting tools that can use nanorc files as config?)

Nano itself cannot create output on stdout.  There are other tools
for syntax coloring (https://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/,
for example), but it cannot use nano's syntax files.

Benno

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