Re: nano syntax highlighting for Octave?

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at 02:47PM, "Mike Miller" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm really more of an Emacs guy, but for students I recommend Nano to 
> > > get them started.  I've been working on getting the syntax 
> > > highlighting to work for various kinds of scripts.  I found something 
> > > for R and modified it to produce what you see below (don't blame 
> > > Haptonstahl if anything is broken in that code because it might be my 
> > > fault).  I think it works fairly well but there is definitely room for 
> > > improvement.
> > >
> > > Of course I'd like some nano syntax highlighting code for Octave 
> > > and/or MATLAB if anybody out here has worked on that.  Thanks in 
> > > advance.
> >
> > I haven't tried it, but a Google turned this link up.
> >
> >    http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6798
>
>
> Thanks, Ben.  I'm sure that will help.  I think I was searching too much 
> for Octave and not enough for MATLAB.
>
> I'll edit that file and send it to the list.


I played around a little with the code I found at the URL above and 
created the attached text file.  To use it, just append it to your 
~/.nanorc file.  There's also a systemwide way to use it, but I don't know 
offhand.  Also see the attached screenshot PNG file.

It looks nice now (I'm using xterm with white on black and haven't tested 
with black on white), but I know it is still a little messed up -- I can 
see that some functions are repeated and I'm sure others are missing.  I 
don't have time to work on it much now.  I don't know how to retrieve 
lists of different types of functions, or even if there is a way to do 
that.

Nano is Free Software.  It is pretty lightweight and useful as a viewer. 
Just use the -v option to turn off editing functionality:

nano -v file.m

Best,
Mike

octave_nanorc.txt
Description: Text document

nano_octave.png
Description: PNG image