Syntax highlighting is bad?

[og900aero]

I use Debian 12 stable with alacritty. I try micro editor compared with nano, and I find that micro is able to recognize which syntax highlighting to use for much fewer files, than nano. It does not recognize such popular config files as fail2ban, interfaces, nftables, etc. Meanwhile, nano minimum colors the comments, but also the [] parts indicating groups in the case of fail2ban.
Will Micro not be developed from this point of view?

[JoeKar]

The syntax highlighting isn't bad, but has room for optimization/extension.
I already suggested with #2933 an PR to include an default scheme, as nano does for unknown file types. But this will be quite limited and does, as of now, not highlight any braces.
What you expect is the highlighting of the ini file type, which I apply for /etc/* too ~/.config/micro/settings.json:

{
    "/etc/*": {
        "filetype": "ini"
    },
    [...]
}

[og900aero]

"/etc/*": {
"filetype": "ini"
},

Thx, working. The only problem with this is that inside the at etc folder it will also show what would otherwise be a normal syntax highlightning.
A default would certainly be nice. According to this, the developer is not willing to do this?

[JoeKar]

According to this, the developer is not willing to do this?

We're on a good way to get more extended rights to support the project owner. 😉

[og900aero]

According to this, the developer is not willing to do this?

We're on a good way to get more extended rights to support the project owner. 😉

Good to hear that! Because I would not like to go back to nano :)

[ggstrader]

@og900aero Should this really be closed? I'm using micro on two different machines and have included this in the settings on both. Neither have syntax highlighting in any files without extensions. I can manually set the filetype and get highlighting, but it reverts once the file is closed. This is rather annoying, I really want to switch to micro

[og900aero]

@og900aero Should this really be closed? I'm using micro on two different machines and have included this in the settings on both. Neither have syntax highlighting in any files without extensions. I can manually set the filetype and get highlighting, but it reverts once the file is closed. This is rather annoying, I really want to switch to micro

You wrote to the wrong ticket. It has been closed because there is another one in #progress(#2933). I think you should write there. The default syntax works for me, by the way.