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bioSyntax - Syntax Highlighting for Computational Biology.

Syntax highlighting for computational biology to bring you intuitively close to your data.
BioSyntax provides plugins for gedit, less, sublime and vim.
BioSyntax supports .sam, .flagstat, .vcf, .fasta, .fastq, .faidx, .clustal, .pdb, .gtf, .bed files & more.

Plugins are not enabled per default.


Go into the gedit preferences:


Edit > Preferences > Font & Color > bioSyntax


First, check your shell:


echo $SHELL


# Outputs:
' $SHELL $RCFILE '
# /bin/zsh --> ~/.zshrc
# /bin/sh --> ~/.shrc
# /bin/bash --> ~/.bashrc

Then, append the rc_append.txt file to your corresponding shell configuration file (rc file).


cat /usr/share/doc/biosyntax-less/rc_append.txt >> ~/.zshrc


To enable it for your user account just execute:


vim-addons install biosyntax

Similarly, to enable it for all users of this system just execute (as root):


vim-addons -w install biosyntax

vim-addons is provided by the vim-addon-manager package, have a look at its manpage for more information.

https://biosyntax.org/

April 2018 0.1