Subj : Re: Weird
To   : digimaus
From : Gamgee
Date : Sun Jan 25 2026 14:53:34

  Re: Re: Weird
  By: Gamgee to digimaus on Sat Jan 24 2026 10:23 am

 > -=> digimaus wrote to Gamgee <=-
 >
 >  Ga> FWIW, nano does a nice job of syntax highlighting these days, too.
 >
 >  di> It dooesn't support Pascal directly and the file that I found for
 >  di> syntax coloring supports Delphi, not Turbo Pascal.
 >
 > I found this file:  https://github.com/sith-ikjetil/pascal.nanorc
 >
 > Put it in /usr/share/nano  (there are likely other .nanorc files there
 > already).
 >
 > Then, create/edit .nanorc in your home directory, and put this line in
 > it:
 >
 > include /usr/share/nano/*.nanorc
 >
 > After that, I found that syntax highlighting worked very nicely on some
 > *OLD* Turbo Pascal source files of mine from the early 90's...  :-)
 >
 > Here's the catch:  That syntax file expects the extension of the file
 > you're editing to be ".pas".  in LOWERCASE.  It doesn't work if the file
 > extension is in CAPS.  If you look at the first line of the .nanorc file
 > you can see that specified.  I didn't bother, but that could likely be
 > edited to include ".PAS" if desired, as old TP versions (or maybe it was
 > just DOS) seemed to save filenames in CAPS.
 >
 > Anyway, hope that helps.

Sean,

Just wondering if you saw this, and/or had any luck with it.

Dan
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