Syntax highlighting problem at nano

[gordon.f]

Dear OpenBSD user,

-I installed nano with:

pkg_add nano

-Then opened up a python file with:

nano test.py

But there was no syntax highlighting.
Then I checked nano with:

apropos nano

Read nanorc(5) with:

man 5 nanorc

-It describes several locations for nanorc configuraiton file but it was missing in my system. So I created inside /etc with

doas touch /etc/nanorc

-Then added this lines

include /usr/local/share/nano/python.nanorc

After that I tried syntax highlighting with a python file. There is partial syntax highlighting. Keywords are showed with bold white font and the user code is gray. Just bold white and gray. There is no any other color.

Could you please explain how can I get fully functioning syntax highligthing?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Try it with a wildcard to pick up all the syntax highlight files:

include "/usr/local/share/nano/*.nanorc"

[gordon.f]

Dear Matthew,
Thanks for the reply. I did it, the result is still the same.

Edit:
I checked it for an html file and in that file there is no syntax highlighting at all. Not even white and gray.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Is this with xterm?

Perhaps try

TERM=xterm-256color nano /path/to/file.html

If that works add export TERM=xterm-256color to ~/.profile.

[gordon.f]

Dear Matthew,
When I type

echo $TERM

ksh replied

vt220

Is this issue happened because of terminal?

Edit:
TERM=xterm-256color nano /path/to/file.html
I typed the code above but not everything fit into screen. There were colors though.
So this is related to terminal type. I created this virtual machine on Windows Hyper-V and it is not covering the whole screen. It only holds 11x28 cm on 25x40 cm display. How can make it fullscreen?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

So this is from the console (TTY) then? Don't use xterm's terminfo in the console, it will probably break stuff.

EDIT: I think you're out of luck:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=144286056911508&w=2

[gordon.f]

I think I can change the terminal but I don't know how to do it. I don't want to break working stuff for nothing.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

According to my linked mailing list thread the only way to get syntax highlighting working properly is to use X and xterm. The console just doesn't support it.

[gordon.f]

Well, in the installation I excluded the X. So can I use xterm instead?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Not without X. The clue is in the name :-)

[gordon.f]

Dear Matthew,
I also have another desktop and it is bare-metal OpenBSD installation. Let me try at that machine because I excluded X at that machine too. I'll let you know about the result. Thanks for the help.

[gordon.f]

UPDATE:
I checked if the same condition exists on the desktop machine and the answer is yes. Terminal is vt200, again. Installed nano and edited .nanorc file in order to make syntax highlighting for python but there was no syntax highlighting, not even partial syntax highlighting.

Results are listed below.
On both machines X is excluded on installation.
OpenBSD amd64 VM on Windows Hyper-V: Terminal= vt200; partial syntax highlighting.
OpenBSD i386 on bare-metal: Terminal= vt200; no syntax highlighting at all.

[fvgit]

For what its worth, apparently there's work being done to enhance the console capabilities (256 colours, italic text etc.) on OpenBSD so you can use TERM=xterm in a meaningful way in wscons.