.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" nano.1 is copyright 1999-2000 by .\" Chris Allegretta .\" .\" This is free documentation, see the latest version of the GNU General .\" Public License for copying conditions. There is NO warranty. .\" .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH NANO 1 "December 2, 2000" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .SH NAME nano \- Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico Clone .SH SYNOPSIS .B nano .RI [options]\ [+LINE] " file" .br .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B nano command. .PP .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB\fP and .\" \fI\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. \fBnano\fP is a small, free and friendly editor which aims to replace Pico, the default editor included in the non-free Pine package. Rather than just copying Pico's look and feel, .B nano also implements some missing (or disabled by default) features in Pico, such as "search and replace" and "goto line number". .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-T (\-\-tabsize) Set the size (width) of a tab. .TP .B \-R (\-\-regexp) Enable regular expression matching for search strings, as well as \\n subexpression replacement for replace strings, if available. .TP .B \-V (\-\-version) Show the current version number and author. .TP .B \-h (\-\-help) Display a summary of commandline options. .TP .B \-c (\-\-const) Constantly show the cursor position. .TP .B \-k (\-\-cut) Enable cut from cursor to end of line with ^K. .TP .B \-i (\-\-autoindent) Indent new lines to the previous line's indentation. Useful when editing source code. .TP .B \-l (\-\-nofollow) If the file being edited is a symbolic link, replace the link with a a new file, do not follow it. Good for editing files in /tmp perhaps? .TP .B \-m (\-\-mouse) Enable mouse support (if available for your system). .TP .B \-p (\-\-pico) Emulate Pico as closely as possible. .TP .B \-s (\-\-speller) Enable alternative spell checker command. .TP .B \-t (\-\-tempfile) Always save changed buffer without prompting. Same as Pico -t option. .TP .B \-v (\-\-view) View file (read only) mode. .TP .B \-w (\-\-nowrap) Disable wrapping of long lines. .TP .B \-x (\-\-nohelp) Disable help screen at bottom of editor. .TP .B \-z (\-\-suspend) Enable suspend ability. .TP .B \+LINE Places cursor at LINE on startup. .SH NOTES Nano will try to dump the buffer into an emergency file in some cases. Mainly, this will happen if Nano recieves a SIGHUP or runs out of memory, when it will write the buffer into a file named "nano.save" if the buffer didn't have a name already, or will add a ".save" suffix to the current finename. Nano will \fBnot\fP write this file if a previous one exists in the current directory. .SH BUGS Please send any comments or bug reports to .br .B nano@nano-editor.org. .br The nano mailing list is available from .br .B nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. To subscribe, email to nano-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net with a subject of "subscribe". .SH HOMEPAGE http://www.nano-editor.org .SH AUTHOR Chris Allegretta , et al (see AUTHORS for details). This manual page was originally written by Jordi Mallach , for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).