nano’s syntax highlighting and keybindings are highly configurable.

I used a little-known (these days) language called, Pick, or DataBasic, so I always have to create my own syntax-highlighting profiles for whatever editor I’m using, if supported, and nano proved to fit my needs. But, it’s standard keybindings were anything but industry standard. A little googling quickly turned up both the solution to my problem, but yours, as well.

For syntax highlighting, just create a lang.nanorc file for your particular needs in the same folder as the other .nanorc files, using them as a guide to configure your own, then add it to /etc/nanorc, which also contains the keybindings, details of which can be found on-line or in the man pages.

For graphical editor, I highly recommend medit – I’ve completely replaced gedit with medit and it does everyone I want. Gedit word navigation and find/replace bugs are a thing of the past now. Syntax highlighting is great too.

It does not highlight any language’s syntax, and wants to correct them
when doing spelling checking. It also wants to correct digit numbers
with the spelling checker.

So it’s now useless!

Also, the windows-like key bindings that were referred to and not
windows. They are origionally from the Mac definitions which Apple
published back before MS had any windowing software. And when they did
they copied and with their typical MS ‘invented here’ screwed up several
of them.

But right now, I’m fighting with it because it can’t remember my settings for tabs. I’ve had this problem with it before. I hoped they would have fixed it by now, but it looks like the developers have better things to do.

They’re probably hamming it up with the gedit people that can’t fix the bug where pasting, every now and then, pastes into some obscure area a page or two away from the cursor. And you think, oh, that’s weird, and you paste again and it works, and you don’t find out about the other area until it’s time to compile, and you have to repair the damage your f’ing TEXT EDITOR caused.

HOW HARD IS THIS, PEOPLE?

https://fte.sourceforge.net/

Very caoble

Syntax highlighting and syntax-aware autoindent for many languages / file formats, including C(++), Java, Perl, Sh, Pascal, SQL, Assembly, PHP, Python, REXX, Ada, Fortran, IDL, LinuxDoc, TeX, TeXInfo, HTML, diffs, emails and makefiles
User-definable syntax highlighting using a configurable state machine
Parenthesis matching
Parsing of compiler output (jump to file/line of error, jump to prev/next error)
Parsing of “grep” output (jump to file/line of match)
Simple handling of several open files / directory views
Several variations of the “copy’n'paste” mechanism (including “Copy-Append”, “Paste column”, “Paste line”
Many Line transformation operations (split, join, center, toupper, tolower, togglecase, rot13, delete-to-end, …)
An ASCII table (“insert this funny char”)
Many block selection operations (mark stream/rectangle/line(s), insert stream/rectangle/line(s) from file, write selection to file, print selection)
Operations on selections (toupper, tolower, rot13, user defined translates, indent entire block, sort, …)
Several navigation operations (search string, bookmark stack, goto line, goto matching parenthesis, go to next/prev similar word, …)
Search and replace optionally using regular expressions
Folds, including “create by regexp”, “create by routines”, nested folds
Interfacing to compiler/make, grep, shell, ispell
Routine/Function list for several languages
… Many more