Add this to your ~/.nanorc and when running "git commit" (if your editor is nano) you'll have syntax highlighting in your commit message. Includes support for "git commit -v" too!

Nano Git Commit Syntax highlighting

syntax "gitcommit" "COMMIT_EDITMSG$"
color white "#.*"
color green "#.(modified|deleted).*"
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 "^#"

Legend cheers mate

Will this work for .vimrc as well?

Thanks <3

Great highlighting! My life has just become so much better!

Some ideas to add to this:

• Put this into a separate file (I use .config/nano/gitcommit.nanorc) and then reference to it from your .nanorc with an include line as described here: http://milianw.de/code-snippets/git-commit-message-highlighting-in-nano
• Use different colors for comments and the message itself. E.g. cyan for the comments.
• Special highlighting for the "cut" line with ---- >8 ----.