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## Sample initialization file for GNU nano.
##
## This file should not be in DOS or Mac format, and characters
## specially interpreted by the shell should not be escaped here.
##
## To make sure an option is disabled, use "unset
".
##
## For the options that take parameters, the default value is given.
## Other options are unset by default.
##
## Inside string parameters, quotes should not be escaped. The last
## double quote on the line will be seen as the closing quote.
## Make the 'nextword' function (Ctrl+Right) stop at word ends
## instead of at beginnings.
# set afterends
## When soft line wrapping is enabled, make it wrap lines at blanks
## (tabs and spaces) instead of always at the edge of the screen.
# set atblanks
## Automatically indent a newly created line to the same number of
## tabs and/or spaces as the preceding line -- or as the next line
## if the preceding line is the beginning of a paragraph.
# set autoindent
## Back up files to the current filename plus a tilde.
# set backup
## The directory to put unique backup files in.
# set backupdir ""
## Use bold text instead of reverse video text.
# set boldtext
## The characters treated as closing brackets when justifying paragraphs.
## This may not include any blank characters. Only closing punctuation,
## optionally followed by these closing brackets, can end sentences.
# set brackets ""')>]}"
## Automatically hard-wrap the current line when it becomes overlong.
# set breaklonglines
## Do case-sensitive searches by default.
# set casesensitive
## Constantly display the cursor position in the status bar. Note that
## this overrides "quickblank".
# set constantshow
## Use cut-from-cursor-to-end-of-line by default.
# set cutfromcursor
## Do not use the line below the title bar, leaving it entirely blank.
# set emptyline
## Set the target width for automatic hard-wrapping and for justifying
## paragraphs. If the specified value is 0 or less, the wrapping point
## will be the terminal's width minus this number.
# set fill -8
## Remember the used search/replace strings for the next session.
# set historylog
## Scroll the buffer contents per half-screen instead of per line.
# set jumpyscrolling
## Display line numbers to the left of the text.
# set linenumbers
## Enable vim-style lock-files. This is just to let a vim user know you
## are editing a file [s]he is trying to edit and vice versa. There are
## no plans to implement vim-style undo state in these files.
# set locking
## The opening and closing brackets that can be found by bracket
## searches. They cannot contain blank characters. The former set must
## come before the latter set, and both must be in the same order.
# set matchbrackets "(<[{)>]}"
## Enable mouse support, if available for your system. When enabled,
## mouse clicks can be used to place the cursor, set the mark (with a
## double click), and execute shortcuts. The mouse will work in the X
## Window System, and on the console when gpm is running.
# set mouse
## Switch on multiple file buffers (inserting a file will put it into
## a separate buffer).
# set multibuffer
## Don't convert files from DOS/Mac format.
# set noconvert
## Don't display the helpful shortcut lists at the bottom of the screen.
# set nohelp
## Don't automatically add a newline when a file does not end with one.
# set nonewlines
## Set operating directory. nano will not read or write files outside
## this directory and its subdirectories. Also, the current directory
## is changed to here, so any files are inserted from this dir. A blank
## string means the operating-directory feature is turned off.
# set operatingdir ""
## Remember the cursor position in each file for the next editing session.
# set positionlog
## Preserve the XON and XOFF keys (^Q and ^S).
# set preserve
## The characters treated as closing punctuation when justifying
## paragraphs. They cannot contain blank characters. Only closing
## punctuation, optionally followed by closing brackets, can end
## sentences.
# set punct "!.?"
## Do quick status-bar blanking. Status-bar messages will disappear after
## 1 keystroke instead of 26. Note that "constantshow" overrides this.
# set quickblank
## The regular expression that matches quoting characters in email
## or line-comment introducers in source code. The default is:
# set quotestr "^([ ]*([!#%:;>|}]|//))+"
## Try to work around a mismatching terminfo terminal description.
# set rawsequences
## Fix Backspace/Delete confusion problem.
# set rebinddelete
## Do regular-expression searches by default.
## Regular expressions are of the extended type (ERE).
# set regexp
## Put the cursor on the highlighted item in the file browser, and show
## the cursor in the help viewer; useful for people who use a braille
## display and people with poor vision.
# set showcursor
## Make the Home key smarter. When Home is pressed anywhere but at the
## very beginning of non-whitespace characters on a line, the cursor
## will jump to that beginning (either forwards or backwards). If the
## cursor is already at that position, it will jump to the true
## beginning of the line.
# set smarthome
## Enable soft line wrapping (AKA full-line display).
# set softwrap
## Use this spelling checker instead of the internal one. This option
## does not have a default value.
# set speller "aspell -x -c"
## Allow nano to be suspended.
# set suspend
## Use this tab size instead of the default; it must be greater than 0.
# set tabsize 8
## Convert typed tabs to spaces.
# set tabstospaces
## Save automatically on exit; don't prompt.
# set tempfile
## Snip whitespace at the end of lines when justifying or hard-wrapping.
# set trimblanks
## Disallow file modification. Why would you want this in an rcfile? ;)
# set view
## The two single-column characters used to display the first characters
## of tabs and spaces. 187 in ISO 8859-1 (0000BB in Unicode) and 183 in
## ISO-8859-1 (0000B7 in Unicode) seem to be good values for these.
## The default when in a UTF-8 locale:
# set whitespace "»·"
## The default otherwise:
# set whitespace ">."
## Detect word boundaries differently by treating punctuation
## characters as parts of words.
# set wordbounds
## The characters (besides alphanumeric ones) that should be considered
## as parts of words. This option does not have a default value. When
## set, it overrides option 'set wordbounds'.
# set wordchars "<_>."
## Let an unmodified Backspace or Delete erase the marked region (instead
## of a single character, and without affecting the cutbuffer).
# set zap
## Paint the interface elements of nano. These are examples;
## by default there are no colors, except for errorcolor.
# set titlecolor brightwhite,blue
# set statuscolor brightwhite,green
# set errorcolor brightwhite,red
# set selectedcolor brightwhite,magenta
# set stripecolor ,yellow
# set numbercolor cyan
# set keycolor cyan
# set functioncolor green
## In root's .nanorc you might want to use:
# set titlecolor brightwhite,magenta
# set statuscolor brightwhite,magenta
# set errorcolor brightwhite,red
# set selectedcolor brightwhite,cyan
# set stripecolor ,yellow
# set numbercolor magenta
# set keycolor brightmagenta
# set functioncolor magenta
## Setup of syntax coloring.
##
## syntax "name" ["filename regex" ...]
##
## color|icolor foreground,background "regex" ["regex"...]
## [...]
##
## 'color' will do case-sensitive matches, while 'icolor' will do
## case-insensitive matches.
##
## All color commands are applied in the order in which they are specified,
## meaning that later commands can recolor stuff that was colored earlier.
##
## Valid color names for foreground and background are: white, black, normal,
## red, blue, green, yellow, magenta, cyan. For foreground colors, you may
## use the prefix "bright" to get a stronger highlight.
##
## All regexes (regular expressions) are of the extended type (ERE).
##
## If the coloring rule should span multiple lines, use the following format:
##
## color fg,bg start="regex" end="regex"
##
## If you wish, you may put your syntax definitions in separate files.
## You can make use of such files as follows:
##
## include "/path/to/syntax_file.nanorc"
## To include all existing syntax definitions, you can do:
# include "/usr/share/nano/*.nanorc"
## If should always produce four spaces when editing a Python file,
## independent of the settings of 'tabsize' and 'tabstospaces':
# extendsyntax python tabgives " "
## If should always produce an actual TAB when editing a Makefile:
# extendsyntax makefile tabgives " "
## Key bindings.
## See nanorc(5) (section REBINDING KEYS) for more details on this.
## The keystroke deletes the word to the right of the cursor.
## On some terminals the keystroke produces ^H, which is
## the ASCII character for backspace, so it is bound by default to the
## backspace function. The key itself produces a different
## keycode, which is hard-bound to the backspace function. So, if you
## normally use for backspacing and not ^H, you can make
## delete the word to the left of the cursor with:
# bind ^H chopwordleft main
## If you would like nano to have keybindings that are more "usual",
## such as ^O for Open, ^F for Find, ^H for Help, and ^Q for Quit,
## then uncomment these:
#bind ^Q exit all
#bind ^S savefile main
#bind ^W writeout main
#bind ^O insert main
#bind ^H help all
#bind ^H exit help
#bind ^F whereis all
#bind ^G findnext all
#bind ^B wherewas all
#bind ^D findprevious all
#bind ^R replace main
#bind M-X flipnewbuffer all
#bind ^X cut all
#bind ^C copy main
#bind ^V paste all
#bind ^P curpos main
#bind ^A mark main
#unbind ^K main
#unbind ^U all
#unbind ^N main
#unbind ^Y all
#unbind M-J main
#unbind M-T main
#bind ^T gotoline main
#bind ^T gotodir browser
#bind ^Y speller main
#bind M-U undo main
#bind M-R redo main
#bind ^U undo main
#bind ^E redo main
#set multibuffer