small addition: allow customizing the color of selected text

The new option 'set selectedcolor' applies to marked text, to the
currently selected file in the file browser, and to the highlighted
match during interactive search-and-replace.

doc/nano.texi

@@ -707,9 +707,9 @@ Do backwards searches by default.
 
 @item set boldtext
 Use bold instead of reverse video for the title bar, status bar, key combos,
-function tags, line numbers, and selected text.  This can be overridden for
-the first five by setting the options @code{titlecolor}, @code{statuscolor},
-@code{keycolor}, @code{functioncolor}, and @code{numbercolor}.
+function tags, line numbers, and selected text.  This can be overridden by
+setting the options @code{titlecolor}, @code{statuscolor}, @code{keycolor},
+@code{functioncolor}, @code{numbercolor}, and @code{selectedcolor}.
 
 @item set brackets "@var{string}"
 Set the characters treated as closing brackets when justifying
@@ -852,6 +852,10 @@ won't work properly with this option enabled.
 @item set regexp
 Do extended regular expression searches by default.
 
+@item set selectedcolor @var{fgcolor},@var{bgcolor}
+Use this color combination for selected text.
+@xref{@code{set functioncolor}} for valid color names.
+
 @item set showcursor
 Put the cursor on the highlighted item in the file browser, to aid
 braille users.

doc/nanorc.5

@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ Do backwards searches by default.
 .TP
 .B set boldtext
 Use bold instead of reverse video for the title bar, status bar, key combos,
-function tags, line numbers, and selected text.  This can be overridden for
-the first five by setting the options \fBtitlecolor\fP, \fBstatuscolor\fP,
-\fBkeycolor\fP, \fBfunctioncolor\fP, and \fBnumbercolor\fP.
+function tags, line numbers, and selected text.  This can be overridden by
+setting the options \fBtitlecolor\fP, \fBstatuscolor\fP, \fBkeycolor\fP,
+\fBfunctioncolor\fP, \fBnumbercolor\fP, and \fBselectedcolor\fP.
 .TP
 .B set brackets "\fIstring\fP"
 Set the characters treated as closing brackets when justifying
@@ -220,6 +220,10 @@ won't work properly with this option enabled.
 .B set regexp
 Do extended regular expression searches by default.
 .TP
+.B set selectedcolor \fIfgcolor\fR,\fIbgcolor\fR
+Specify the color combination to use for selected text.
+See \fBset titlecolor\fR for more details.
+.TP
 .B set showcursor
 Put the cursor on the highlighted item in the file browser, to aid
 braille users.

doc/sample.nanorc.in

@@ -208,12 +208,14 @@
 ## These are examples; by default there are no colors.
 # set titlecolor brightwhite,blue
 # set statuscolor brightwhite,green
+# set selectedcolor brightwhite,magenta
 # set numbercolor cyan
 # set keycolor cyan
 # set functioncolor green
 ## In root's .nanorc you might want to use:
 # set titlecolor brightwhite,red
 # set statuscolor brightwhite,red
+# set selectedcolor brightwhite,cyan
 # set numbercolor magenta
 # set keycolor brightmagenta
 # set functioncolor magenta

src/browser.c

@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ void browser_refresh(void)
 	/* If this is the selected item, start its highlighting, and
 	 * remember its location to be able to place the cursor on it. */
 	if (i == selected) {
-	    wattron(edit, hilite_attribute);
+	    wattron(edit, interface_color_pair[SELECTED_TEXT]);
 	    the_row = row;
 	    the_column = col;
 	}
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ void browser_refresh(void)
 
 	/* If this is the selected item, finish its highlighting. */
 	if (i == selected)
-	    wattroff(edit, hilite_attribute);
+	    wattroff(edit, interface_color_pair[SELECTED_TEXT]);
 
 	free(info);
 

src/nano.c

@@ -2492,6 +2492,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 #else
     interface_color_pair[TITLE_BAR] = hilite_attribute;
     interface_color_pair[LINE_NUMBER] = hilite_attribute;
+    interface_color_pair[SELECTED_TEXT] = hilite_attribute;
     interface_color_pair[STATUS_BAR] = hilite_attribute;
     interface_color_pair[KEY_COMBO] = hilite_attribute;
     interface_color_pair[FUNCTION_TAG] = A_NORMAL;

src/nano.h

@@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ enum
 {
     TITLE_BAR = 0,
     LINE_NUMBER,
+    SELECTED_TEXT,
     STATUS_BAR,
     KEY_COMBO,
     FUNCTION_TAG,

src/rcfile.c

@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ static const rcoption rcopts[] = {
 #ifndef DISABLE_COLOR
     {"titlecolor", 0},
     {"numbercolor", 0},
+    {"selectedcolor", 0},
     {"statuscolor", 0},
     {"keycolor", 0},
     {"functioncolor", 0},
@@ -1113,6 +1114,8 @@ void parse_rcfile(FILE *rcstream, bool syntax_only)
 	    specified_color_combo[TITLE_BAR] = option;
 	else if (strcasecmp(rcopts[i].name, "numbercolor") == 0)
 	    specified_color_combo[LINE_NUMBER] = option;
+	else if (strcasecmp(rcopts[i].name, "selectedcolor") == 0)
+	    specified_color_combo[SELECTED_TEXT] = option;
 	else if (strcasecmp(rcopts[i].name, "statuscolor") == 0)
 	    specified_color_combo[STATUS_BAR] = option;
 	else if (strcasecmp(rcopts[i].name, "keycolor") == 0)

src/winio.c

@@ -2650,9 +2650,9 @@ void edit_draw(filestruct *fileptr, const char *converted,
 		paintlen = actual_x(thetext, end_col - start_col);
 	    }
 
-	    wattron(edit, hilite_attribute);
+	    wattron(edit, interface_color_pair[SELECTED_TEXT]);
 	    mvwaddnstr(edit, row, margin + start_col, thetext, paintlen);
-	    wattroff(edit, hilite_attribute);
+	    wattroff(edit, interface_color_pair[SELECTED_TEXT]);
 	}
     }
 #endif /* !NANO_TINY */
@@ -3417,7 +3417,7 @@ void spotlight(bool active, size_t from_col, size_t to_col)
 	room--;
 
     if (active)
-	wattron(edit, hilite_attribute);
+	wattron(edit, interface_color_pair[SELECTED_TEXT]);
 
     waddnstr(edit, word, actual_x(word, room));
 
@@ -3425,7 +3425,7 @@ void spotlight(bool active, size_t from_col, size_t to_col)
 	waddch(edit, '$');
 
     if (active)
-	wattroff(edit, hilite_attribute);
+	wattroff(edit, interface_color_pair[SELECTED_TEXT]);
 
     free(word);
 
@@ -3464,12 +3464,12 @@ void spotlight_softwrapped(bool active, size_t from_col, size_t to_col)
 					break_col - from_col, FALSE);
 
 	if (active)
-	    wattron(edit, hilite_attribute);
+	    wattron(edit, interface_color_pair[SELECTED_TEXT]);
 
 	waddnstr(edit, word, actual_x(word, break_col));
 
 	if (active)
-	    wattroff(edit, hilite_attribute);
+	    wattroff(edit, interface_color_pair[SELECTED_TEXT]);
 
 	free(word);
 

syntax/nanorc.nanorc

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ icolor brightred "^[[:space:]]*((un)?(bind|set)|include|syntax|header|magic|comm
 # Keywords
 icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(allow_insecure_backup|atblanks|autoindent|backup|backwards|boldtext|casesensitive|constantshow|cutfromcursor|fill[[:space:]]+-?[[:digit:]]+|historylog|justifytrim|linenumbers|locking|morespace|mouse|multibuffer|noconvert|nohelp|nopauses|nonewlines|nowrap|positionlog|preserve|quickblank|quiet|rebinddelete|rebindkeypad|regexp|showcursor|smarthome|smooth|softwrap|suspend|tabsize[[:space:]]+[1-9][0-9]*|tabstospaces|tempfile|unix|view|wordbounds)\>"
 icolor yellow "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+((function|key|number|status|title)color)[[:space:]]+(bright)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan)?(,(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan))?\>"
-icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+(backupdir|brackets|functioncolor|keycolor|matchbrackets|numbercolor|operatingdir|punct|quotestr|speller|statuscolor|titlecolor|whitespace|wordchars)[[:space:]]+"
+icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+(backupdir|brackets|functioncolor|keycolor|matchbrackets|numbercolor|operatingdir|punct|quotestr|selectedcolor|speller|statuscolor|titlecolor|whitespace|wordchars)[[:space:]]+"
 icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*bind[[:space:]]+((\^([[:alpha:]]|[]0-9\^_]|Space)|M-([[:alpha:]]|[]!"#$%&'()*+,./0-9:;<=>?@\^_`{|}~-]|Space))|F([1-9]|1[0-6])|Ins|Del)[[:space:]]+[[:alpha:]]+[[:space:]]+(all|main|search|replace(with)?|gotoline|writeout|insert|ext(ernal)?cmd|help|spell|linter|browser|whereisfile|gotodir)([[:space:]]+#|[[:space:]]*$)"
 icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*unbind[[:space:]]+((\^([[:alpha:]]|[]0-9\^_]|Space)|M-([[:alpha:]]|[]!"#$%&'()*+,./0-9:;<=>?@\^_`{|}~-]|Space))|F([1-9]|1[0-6])|Ins|Del)[[:space:]]+(all|main|search|replace(with)?|gotoline|writeout|insert|ext(ernal)?cmd|help|spell|linter|browser|whereisfile|gotodir)([[:space:]]+#|[[:space:]]*$)"
 icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*extendsyntax[[:space:]]+[[:alpha:]]+[[:space:]]+(i?color|header|magic|comment|linter|formatter)[[:space:]]+.*$"