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Chris Allegretta | 15 Nov 2010 18:56

Re: Nano on Windows, where should nanorc go?

Hi Jeremy,

After finally getting my win32 system in working state again, I have
uploaded the 2.2.5 version of nano for win32, and have updated the FAQ
to talk about the rc file for those systems:

http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/faq.html#3.9.1

Can you take a look and provide any feedback you might have on it (as
well as whether it even works 

On 11/8/10, Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy <at> cowgar.com> wrote:
> I am trying to use nano on Windows but I've tried every place I could
> think of to put my .nanorc and cannot seem to find a place that nano
> reads it.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Jeremy Cowgar
>

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Jeremy Cowgar | 15 Nov 2010 19:22

Re: Nano on Windows, where should nanorc go?

On 11/15/2010 12:56 PM, Chris Allegretta wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> After finally getting my win32 system in working state again, I have
> uploaded the 2.2.5 version of nano for win32, and have updated the FAQ
> to talk about the rc file for those systems:
> 
> http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/faq.html#3.9.1
> 
> Can you take a look and provide any feedback you might have on it (as
> well as whether it even works 
> 

Oh, BTW... for syntax highlighting I simply grabbed the 2.2.5.tar.gz
file, copied the doc/syntax to my install directory of Nano
(C:\Development\Tools\nano) and then added to my nano.rc file:

include "C:/Development/Tools/nano/syntax/c.nanorc"
include "C:/Development/Tools/nano/syntax/nanorc.nanorc"
#.... etc ...

I only added the ones I was interested in.

Thanks!

Jeremy

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Jeremy Cowgar | 15 Nov 2010 19:17

Re: Nano on Windows, where should nanorc go?

On 11/15/2010 12:56 PM, Chris Allegretta wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> After finally getting my win32 system in working state again, I have
> uploaded the 2.2.5 version of nano for win32, and have updated the FAQ
> to talk about the rc file for those systems:
> 
> http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/faq.html#3.9.1
> 
> Can you take a look and provide any feedback you might have on it (as
> well as whether it even works 

Great! It works!

However, if I can, may I suggest instead of requiring the user to set
the HOME environment variable, looking to see if HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH
exists? That should be set on everyone's windows box. For example, mine is:

HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Users\Jeremy

This, however, might introduce problems with spaces in the file name if
not properly handled. Some could have HOMEPATH as "\Documents and
Settings\Jeremy"...

I tried to get nano 2.5 to compile on my Windows box but failed with
dependency problems. Not knowing CygWin very well, I gave up, but I was
going to submit a patch with the above suggestion.

Jeremy

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