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[Benno Schulenberg <benno@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Code is inspected far more often than it is written, and when inspecting
code, some people do want to be alerted to trailing whitespace.  So
that's why it is in several of the *.nanorc files.  However, those files
in /usr/share/nano are just examples -- they are meant to be customized
by the user.  Most distributions, however, include and activate them by
default.

By the way, it is not necessary to edit the files in /usr/share/nano;
you can instead redefine any syntax in your ~/.nanorc: just put in
'syntax "sh" "\.sh$"' and follow it by the color commands that you do
want.

(In newer nanos (2.4.0 and higher) there is no need to completely
redefine a syntax; you can just add or override things with
'extendsyntax'.  In your case you would put 'extendsyntax sh color
black, "[[:space:]]+$"' to get rid of the trailing-whitespace
colouring.)

If, when reading code, you do want trailing whitespace to be
highlighted, you can just toggle syntax colouring off with Alt+Y while
you are typing the code, and toggle it back on when you are done
writing.

Okay, all that is selfhelp.  But if you think that for most people the
colouring of trailing whitespace should never be the default, you could
report a bug to nano itself (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano)
or send an email to its development list
(https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nano-devel).

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361131

Title:
  constantly flashing bright green while typing

Status in nano package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  While editing a shell script (.sh file) nano colours trailing spaces
  bright green.

  It also considers spaces that have just been typed to be trailing
  spaces.

  This results in constant flashing bright green while typing, which is
  both distracting and annoying.

  It's at its most ridiculous when typing comments (for which trailing
  whitespace is obviously completely irrelevant), but is also irritating
  any time you happen to look at what you're typing. Which for me is, as
  it happens, all the time.

  Ideal solution: only display trailing whitespace if the user is not,
  you know, still typing on that line, with the cursor right there.

  Easy solution: just shut up about the damn spaces already.

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