bioSyntax(7)

✨ NAME ✨

ok so this is the bioSyntax manual page — Syntax Highlighting for Computational Biology 💖 (yes that's the whole name, and honestly? iconic.)

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🧬 DESCRIPTION 🧬

Syntax highlighting for computational biology to bring you intuitively close to your data. no fr, that's the whole point bestie 💅

BioSyntax provides plugins for gedit, less, sublime and vim. yes all four, she's versatile like that 👑

And the file formats she supports? .sam, .flagstat, .vcf, .fasta, .fastq, .faidx, .clustal, .pdb, .gtf, .bed files & more. the "& more" is doing a lot of heavy lifting but we love her for it 🫶

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🐧 Debian-based OS 🐧

bestie listen. on Debian-based systems the plugins are not enabled per default. so if you're staring at plain text like 👁️👄👁️ that's why. let's fix it.

🌸 gedit 🌸

Head into the gedit preferences, okay?

Edit > Preferences > Font & Color > bioSyntax

that's it. that's the whole thing. slay ✨

🍓 less 🍓

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

(the example above uses ~/.zshrc because that's the zsh one — swap in your rc file from the little table, iykyk 💜)

🦋 vim 🦋

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. 📖

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• https://biosyntax.org/

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ok that's the whole page, you're officially a bioSyntax girlie now 🧚💖 go highlight something pretty 💅

this was bioSyntax(7) from the Miscellaneous Information Manual — version 0.1, dated April 2018 🎀 mwah, bye bestie! 🫶✨