nano text editor about meta-intel-edison

[htot]

I didn't know nano was included, but sure why not.

You can build a package using bitbake somepackage and then follow instructions here to create a repo and install packages from the repo onto edison. If you have time and space you can probably bitbake world or something similar (I haven't tried).

[mwallnoefer]

For now I have added this line to out/current/build/conf/local.conf:

IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " nano"

But I do not know how it could be added per default.

[htot]

I goes directly into https://github.com/edison-fw/meta-intel-edison/blob/master/meta-intel-edison-distro/recipes-core/images/edison-image.bb

[mwallnoefer]

Something like this b5a6540 (I guess that sketch_check should belong to Arduino)?

[mwallnoefer]

@htot Could we merge something like my patch? Should I open an apposite pull request?

[htot]

Sure. I guess it should go into warrior , did you see my comments at the bottom of b5a6540?

[htot]

I merged your patches into warrior, thanks. They will eventually reach edison-fw/master. Closing this for now.

[mwallnoefer]

Unfortunately the syntax highlighting support is still not enabled by default, which would be very handy when it comes to programming/debugging.
I remember that I once had posted this to the Yocto package maintainer but apparently he didn't change it...😠

[htot]

There is a recipe option "tiny", maybe that is related? Other then that the recipe does not enable or disable stuff.

[htot]

Ok I figured this one out for you. The tiny option would actually disable syntax highlighting. It's on by default. All the syntax files are also packaged and installed to /usr/share/nano. The only thing missing is the nanorc file in /etc. It seems this is not provided by the sources. I copied over the nanorc from my Ubuntu and voila, colors.

I see that debian adds nanorc in their nano_5.4-2.debian.tar.xz sauce. So you could send a patch for the nano recipe to package nanorc to the openembedded ML, or we could add modified nano recipe to meta-intel-edison (that will eventually get pickup by layers.openembedded.org, or write a bbappend so we always get latest nano with our own sauce.

[mwallnoefer]

Let's see what the openembedded nano package maintainer responds us.