Re: changing the default comment string for nano -- not possible

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 08-12-2022 om 02:43 schreef Calvin Smith:
> i would like to know how you can change the comment character from # to
> something else for a different programming language.  [...]

You set the comment character in the syntax file for the relevant language.

> I try to put
>
> comment "//"
>
> in my .nanorc file, but the program just gives me an error and the default 
> comment remains a #. What's the proper way to change this setting?

There is no way to change the default comment character _globally_ -- you
can only change the comment character per syntax.  As 'man nanorc' says:

  For each kind of file a separate syntax can be defined via the following
  commands:

  syntax name ["fileregex" ...]
        Start the definition of a syntax with this name.  All subsequent
        color and other such commands will be added to this syntax, until
        a new syntax command is encountered.

(And the 'comment' command is one of these subsequent commands.)

Benno

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