I played around with the configuration and found a clue, that my first denotation for the bug might lead to the wrong track.
Assuming, that the configuration procedure should work similar as appending the personal configuration file at the end of the system configuration file, I did the following: * copied /etc/nanorc to ~/.nanorc * then in ~/.nanorc I made 2 kinds of variations: 1) commented out standard include for awk in ~/.nanorc: OFF: commented out ON: not commented out 2) added personal include line for awk at different places in ~/.nanorc: pawk-EOF: at end of file sh-pawk: line after include for sh pawk-sh: line before include for sh sawk-pawk: line after standard include for awk Here the results of the combinations, (+ for syntax highlighting works, - for does not work): std_awk p_awk awk sh ON pawk-EOF awk+ sh- ON sh-pawk awk+ sh- ON pawk-sh awk+ sh+ ON sawk-pawk awk+ sh+ OFF pawk-EOF awk+ sh+ OFF sh-pawk awk+ sh+ OFF pawk-sh awk+ sh+ OFF pawk-EOF awk+ sh+ Regards, Bernward. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org