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NANO

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: January 4, 2000
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NAME

nano - Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico Clone

SYNOPSIS

nano [options] [+LINE] file

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the nano command.

nano was originally known as TIP (TIP Isn't Pico). It 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, nano also implements some missing (or disabled by default) features in Pico, such as "search and replace" and "goto line number".

OPTIONS

-T (--tabsize): Set the size (width) of a tab, if supported by your curses library.
-R (--regexp): Enable regular expression matching for search strings, as well as \n subexpression replacement for replace strings, if available.
-V (--version): Show the current version number and author.
-h (--help): Display a summary of commandline options.
-c (--const): Constantly show the cursor position.
-i (--autoindent): Indent new lines to the previous line's indentation. Useful when editing source code.
-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?
-m (--mouse): Enable mouse support (if available for your system).
-p (--pico): Display the same shortcut lists as Pico does.
-s (--speller): Enable alternative spell checker command.
-t (--tempfile): Always save changed buffer without prompting. Same as Pico -t option.
-v (--view): View file (read only) mode.
-w (--nowrap): Disable wrapping of long lines.
-x (--nohelp): Disable help screen at bottom of editor.
-z (--suspend): Enable suspend ability.
+LINE: Places cursor at LINE on startup.

BUGS

Please send any comments or bug reports to nano@asty.org. The nano mailing list is available from nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. To subscribe, email to nano-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net with a subject of "subscribe".

HOMEPAGE

http://www.asty.org/nano

AUTHOR

Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>, et al. This manual page was originally written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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Time: 04:20:00 GMT, July 07, 2000