[SOLVED] Why is this xorg.conf line highlighted?

tpprynn · 11-10-2020, 10:51 PM

If I uncomment this line it does apparently work, tapping is enabled, so why is it highlighted when I read xorg.conf in nano?

I'm not sure this section of my xorg.conf is quite correct (I haven't pursued commands for all the extra touchpad functions because I've never used them) but the form I've used seems correct. There is a slight lag compared to the same function on a laptop that has a Synaptics touchpad and compared to using hotkeys, so maybe these are related?

Thanks.

RandomTroll · 11-10-2020, 11:20 PM

I don't use nano, but emacs has conventions for displaying elements in different colors and attributes that are different for different kinds of files. There are also non-displaying characters that result in funny display attributes. vim has the same feature.

pan64 · 11-11-2020, 02:15 AM

most probably because that is a tab, not spaces....

tpprynn · 11-11-2020, 06:19 AM

It turns out, yes, that there are spaces and a tab, now corrected. Thanks.

RandomTroll · 11-12-2020, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by pan64

most probably because that is a tab, not spaces....

Good catch. emacs does that in some modes. Sometimes spaces and tabs are treated differently so you want different colors.