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.TH bioSyntax 7 "April 2018" "0.1"
.SH NAME
bioSyntax \- Syntax Highlighting for Computational Biology.
.SH DESCRIPTION
Syntax highlighting for computational biology to bring you intuitively close to your data.
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BioSyntax provides plugins for gedit, less, sublime and vim.
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BioSyntax supports .sam, .flagstat, .vcf, .fasta, .fastq, .faidx, .clustal, .pdb, .gtf, .bed files & more.
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.SH Debian-based OS
Plugins are not enabled per default.

.TP
\fBgedit
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Go into the gedit preferences:

  Edit > Preferences > Font & Color > bioSyntax

.TP
\fBless
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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

.TP
\fBvim
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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.

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR https://biosyntax.org/