mp = nano with highlighting (very nice)

RedBeard0531 · Guru Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 415 Location: maryland

emerge mp

Add this line to ~/.bashrc
alias mp="mp -m sh"

Use this if you want to be able to place the curser with the mouse
alias mp="mp -m sh --mouse"

open a file
mp <filename>

To access the menu use alt+a.
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Pindrop · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 2:58 pm Post subject:

I'm impressed, this is a really nice editor. Thanks for the tip!

dylix · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 6:23 pm Post subject:

nice, thanks for the info!
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frippz · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 7:00 am Post subject:

Just what I've been looking for! Great tip! Thanks!

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Anacific · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 9:24 pm Post subject:

This is great!! Thanks for the tip!
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RedBeard0531 · Guru Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 415 Location: maryland

Can anyone think of a reason this shouldnt replace nano as the default editor, or atleast be on the next livecd? If not, ill shoot an email off to the devs.
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PowerFactor · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 6:27 am Post subject:

It doesn't handle function keys corectly in X for me. Same with the home and end keys. Works fine in the console though. Anyone else?

nempo · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 9:57 am Post subject:

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PowerFactor · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 4:35 pm Post subject:

JensZ · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 339 Location: Freiburg

great programm, thanks for tha advice...

Proteus · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 9:04 pm Post subject:

It misses the strg+k shortcut to cut and paste whole lines.
I need that! Often!

So it seems I'll stay with nano - but I really liked the highlighting in mp.
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quirx · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 14

btw. nano has syntax highlighting....
check man nanorc and /usr/share/doc/nano-1.2.1/nanorc.sample.gz...

thraxil · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 46 Location: nyc

mp looks ok. i like the ability to position the cursor with the mouse.

unfortunately, it isn't very well documented (no man page), and doesn't support basic emacs-style cursor movement commands. i long ago trained my hands to use C-n, C-p, C-b, C-f, C-a, and C-e instead of arrow keys and now it's hardwired into my nervous system. emacs supports those, bash supports them, nano supports them, even textareas in mozilla support them. i'm essentially crippled in any program that doesn't support them. i can't use windows for more than 2 minutes without spawning a bunch of print dialogs just because i wanted to go to the previous line.

if mp has a way of remapping the commands so they work, it might be usable. unfortunately, i have no idea if that's possible since there isn't a manpage.

i think i'll just wait for the new version of nano with syntax highlighting.

Epcylon · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Oslo, Norway

The version of nano currently in portage (1.2.1 iirc) already has syntax highlighting... it just doesn't have any highlighting patterns.

The sample nanorc has support for C/C++ highlighting, but that's it. Which brings me to my next point:

With the amount of Pythoneers using Gentoo, I'm guessing I'm not the first one to want syntax highlighting for python in nano... are there anyone who has bothered to sit down and make one?

Other languages like PHP, bash, java are also wanted if you have them...

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snutte · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 8:24 pm Post subject:

Neat

eeknay · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:43 pm Post subject:

hm, i'd like to use the highlighting, but where exactly do i alter the file? and where the heck do i find it? :roll:

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marshall_j · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 1:44 am Post subject:

To get basic syntax highlighting for nano do something like this: