bacon syntax highlighting for nano

[bigbass]

I wrote a syntax file for the nano console editor
should work for pico too

BaCon.nanorc

just copy the file to the nano configuration folder
sudo cp BaCon.nanorc /usr/share/nano



bacon-nano-1.01.tar.gz (2.16 KB)

detects .bac and .m4b

I just did it for a fun project
so that we have more options to use bacon

Joe

[Pjot]

Thanks Joe,

That comes handy indeed!

BR
Peter

[bigbass]

Thanks

only when the display is giving problems
or working on the phone or tablet
console apps are useful

for an emergency
but to see friendly syntax
is always nice

I did a minor update (as you know syntax highlighting
requires a lot of tweaking) I tested on bacon.bac
so it should catch most keywords correctly now

Joe

[bigbass]

I made a menu entry (nano.desktop) for the RPI

for nano
the readme says what to do
now you don't have to type the filename anymore
it will save you the trouble


nano-desktop-entry.tar.gz (554 B)



you have to do this one time so that it
is offered as a choice to open files

now you can have a nice simple
option to open files edit them and have bacon syntax highlighting too
when you want to compare code snippets
select copy and paste work
also too many white screens I like to know where the different
window is quickly
its super stable and just works

Joe

[rikky]


so it should catch most keywords correctly now

I've checked thoroughly  through the BaCon documentation (txt) and you have forgotten nothing.
Only the DIR statement you have extra, so I flipped it out.
But maybe I am mistaken, and DIR does actually mean something.

I had to change 

syntax BaCon "\.(bac|m4b)$
into  

syntax "BaCon" "\.(bac|m4b)$"
and all the

icolors
into

colors

Otherwise it gives me the following errors:

Error in /usr/share/nano/BaCon.nanorc on line 7: A syntax name must be quoted
Error in /usr/share/nano/BaCon.nanorc on line 11: A 'color' command requires a preceding 'syntax' command
Error in /usr/share/nano/BaCon.nanorc on line 12: A 'color' command requires a preceding 'syntax' command
Error in /usr/share/nano/BaCon.nanorc on line 13: A 'color' command requires a preceding 'syntax' command
etc
Press Enter to continue starting nano.
So I took the liberty to add your extra keywords into the filetypes.BaCon.conf as it is found in the latest Fossil.


its super stable and just works
If only it had an option of spitting out the edited text to standard output after finishing. 

 Rik.

Attachments:

syntax_highlite.tgz (4.77 KB)

[bigbass]

Hello Rik

I didn't get any errors

but yes that is correct and I will change it

syntax "BaCon" "\.(bac|m4b)$"



I also will change to color instead of icolor




Thanks for the feedback
just getting all that code to parse I'm sure
there are some little mistakes in there even still
its alpha first version quality


as your question about standard out from nano

this works but using old school select (highlighted)text in nano
open a terminal and press the down the scroll wheel on the mouse
be careful what you select to test with because it will run that code as is


maybe I missed something your end goal in saving the text editor buffer
to standard out if so there is probably a way to do it
since nano is one of those survival tools


Joe

[rikky]

If only it had an option of spitting out the edited text to standard output after finishing.

Well, with a few workarounds it is actually possible.

tempbac$ = CHOP$(EXEC$("mktemp"))

SYSTEM "nano --syntax=BaCon --mouse --tempfile --nohelp " & tempbac$ & ".bac"

PRINT "compiling ... please wait."

response$ = EXEC$("/usr/bin/bacon" & " -y -s " & tempbac$ & ".bac")
retval = RETVAL
IF retval THEN
 EPRINT "Program exited with status " & STR$(retval)
 EPRINT response$
 END retval
END IF

SYSTEM tempbac$

SYSTEM "rm -f " & CHR$(34) & tempbac$ & "*" & CHR$(34)
SYSTEM "rm -f "  & CHR$(34) & "/tmp/Makefile.bacon" & CHR$(34)

So I 've thrown out my editor in the bash for dummy's program and replaced it with nano.
For I was nearly there and had it (almost ready, with syntax highlighting and all), but nano is not a little bit quicker, but several multi factors quicker.
And it has mouse support.

Closing the file is ^X I believe, in nano,
but that can be changed in the nanorc.

I prefer ^d, and that would then be 
bind ^d exit all
So a lot of work is now down the drain, but the result is so much better. 
And I learned a lot. 

Thanks for the suggestion.

Coming up in a few minutes in 'Bash for dummys'.

 Rik.

[bigbass]

Hello Rik (and others)

Glad things worked for you for what you want to do

and nano has config files
to ease the pain for options
that are frequently used


I added color auto save tmp file and line numbers
color and reset some of the control keys
bacon-nano-1.02.tar.gz (6.3 KB)

to test you could use

wget -O documentation.bac http://www.basic-converter.org/documentation.txt
nano documentation.bac



a bash one liner to compile and run

echo "PRINT \"TEST\" " > t.bac && bacon t && ./t

when I feel lazy testing I just name the file with one letter
t.bac bacon t ./t

Joe

[rikky]

A very important one:

bind F1 mouse all
If you have mouse support enabled, copy/past doesn't work anymore, so you have to toggle it off to copy past (with the left mouse button).
I wanted ^M, but that one is the 'short' key for the enter key, and if you use that one, your enter key becomes the mouse toggle key, and doesnt enter anymore.

And I've tested with TYPE VAR FROM TO and STEP, putted in the brightblue section, and that seem to just work.
Nano recognises the TYPE being solo or part of the VARTYPE etc.

This is one you also do not want to miss:

color yellow start="/\*" end="\*/"
and this one:

comment "' "
Now you can comment multiple lines at once with esc a,
Then select text with arrowkeys. (unfortunately not the left mouse button)
esc 3.
And all your selected lines are commented.
esc a again to disselect.

Nice feature but I wont be able to remember this for longer then 2 days.

 Rik.

Attachments:

nano.tgz (5.79 KB)

[ptitjoz]

Apr 25, 2020 0:43:43 GMT 1 bigbass said:

I wrote a syntax file for the nano console editor
should work for pico too

BaCon.nanorc

just copy the file to the nano configuration folder
sudo cp BaCon.nanorc /usr/share/nano





detects .bac and .m4b

I just did it for a fun project
so that we have more options to use bacon

Joe

It's funny, I did something similar. but my code is not as successful as yours.

nano bacon syntax

Regards