nano/doc/syntax/json.nanorc
Benno Schulenberg c7b0e54690 Adding syntax colouring for JSON files.
New file, originally from Aapo Rantalainen,
but heavily edited, extended, and improved.


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## Syntax highlighting for JSON files.
# See: http://www.json.org/
# Original author: Aapo Rantalainen
# License: GPLv3 or newer
syntax "json" "\.json$"
# Numbers (used as value).
color green ":[[:space:]]*\-?(0|[1-9][0-9]*)(\.[0-9]+)?([Ee]?[-+]?[0-9]+)?"
# Values (well, any string).
color brightmagenta "\".+\""
# Hex numbers (used as value).
color green ":[[:space:]]*\"#[0-9abcdefABCDEF]+\""
# Escapes.
color green "\\\\" "\\\"" "\\[bfnrt]" "\\u[0-9abcdefABCDEF]{4})"
# Special words.
color green "(true|false|null)"
# Names (very unlikely to contain a quote).
color brightblue "\"[^"]+\"[[:space:]]*:"
# Brackets, braces, and separators.
color brightblue "\[" "\]"
color brightred "\{" "\}"
color brightred "," ":"
# Comments.
color cyan "(^|[[:space:]]+)(//|#).*$"
# Trailing whitespace.
color ,green "[[:space:]]+$"