How to make "nano" code editor to be named as "rossa" (plus with HySS syntax highlighting)

 I am a big fan of nano code editor, and I want to make nano from source code and rename it to rossa with just sed command line. Also, I want to enable syntax highlighting support for HySS script files.

The way to do that is fairly easy, with a few tricks using sed command line and using your current nano code editor or vi.

You need to get started this way from nano source code at https://www.nano-editor.org/

This assumes you already have a built-in nano/vi editor or any editor that is included with other packages such as build-essential.

The required packages you need to install to build and install nano from the source code are :

build-essential, libncursesw5-dev, groff

The steps are as follows :

$ wget https://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v5/nano-5.0.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf nano-5.0.tar.gz
$ cd nano-5.0
$ sed -i 's/rnano/rossa/g' src/Makefile.in
$ sed -i '/html.nanorc/ a hyss.nanorc \\' syntax/Makefile.in

Create a file syntax/hyss.nanorc using your current nano editor :

$ nano syntax/hyss.nanorc

Copy and paste this code to its content. Save it (press ctr+x and then Y and press Enter).

Then run :

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Post installation step

Ceck the list of files in /usr/local/share/nano :

$ cd /usr/local/share/nano
$ ls

Now it appears that the hyss.nanorc file is already there.

Create a file in your home directory ~/.nanorc with your new rossa code editor :

$ rossa ~/.nanorc

Add a line of code below to its content :

include "/usr/local/share/nano/hyss.nanorc"

Save it (press ctrl+x, and Y and then press Enter)

Test it :

$ rossa hello.hyss

Now HySS script looks pretty with syntax highlighting.

More highlighting example :