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+# Nano syntax file
+# Language: Kotlin
+# Maintainer: Bjarne Holen <bjarneholen@gmail.com>
+# Edited by: Ritiek Malhotra <ritiekmalhotra123@gmail.com>
+# Last Change: 2017 May 24
+# Copyright (c) 2014, Bjarne Holen
+
+syntax "kotlin" "\.kt$" "\.kts$"
+color magenta "\b(([1-9][0-9]+)|0+)\.[0-9]+\b" "\b[1-9][0-9]*\b" "\b0[0-7]*\b" "\b0x[1-9a-f][0-9a-f]*\b"
+color yellow "[.:;,+*|=!\%@]" "<" ">" "/" "-" "&"
+color green "\<(namespace|as|type|class|this|super|val|var|fun|is|in|object|when|trait|import|where|by|get|set|abstract|enum|open|annotation|override|private|public|internal|protected|out|vararg|inline|final|package|lateinit)\>"
+color yellow "\<(true|false|null)\>"
+color cyan "\<(break|catch|continue|do|else|finally|for|if|return|throw|try|while|repeat)\>"
+color brightred "\<(inner|outer)\>"
+##
+## String highlighting. You will in general want your comments and
+## strings to come last, because syntax highlighting rules will be
+## applied in the order they are read in.
+color brightblue "<[^= ]*>" ""(\\.|[^"])*""
+
+## Comment highlighting
+color red "^\s*//.*"
+color red start="/\*" end="\*/"
+
+## Trailing whitespace
+color ,green "[[:space:]]+$"