Nano configuration for git commit message (~/.nanorc)

.nanorc

syntax "gitcommit" "COMMIT_EDITMSG$"
color white "#.*"
color green "#.(new file|modified|deleted|renamed).*"
color yellow start="# Changes.*" end="# Changed.*"
color cyan start="# Untracked.*" end="diff"
color cyan start="# Untracked.*" end="$$"
color brightred "^deleted file mode .*"
color brightgreen "^\+.*"
color brightred "^-.*"
color brightyellow "^(diff|index|---|\+\+\+).*"
color brightmagenta "@@.*@@"
color white "# (Change[ds]|Untracked) .*"
color white "#.*\(use .*"
color white "^#"

# overlong lines which are not comments
color brightred "^[^#].{80,}.+$"
 
# issue number with optionnal closing keyword: https://help.github.com/articles/closing-issues-using-keywords/
icolor yellow "((close|closes|closed|fix|fixes|fixed|resolve|resolves|resolved) )?#[1234567890]+"