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Nano editor

Nano is the editor that can save your life if you don’t know vim, but have to do some text editing. It’s more easy to learn, and now it’s available on many linux systems.

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Links

• Official website

Basic usage

To run nano, type nano in a terminal.

At the bottom there’re hints for some commands you can use. ^K means Ctrl-k.

Some other commands:

• Ctrl-r: open file
• Ctrl-o: write content to a file (autocomplete works on Tab press)
• Alt-u: Undo
• Alt-r: Redo
• Ctrl-k: Kill line or selection
• Ctrl-k: Paste
• Ctrl-n: Cursor down
• Ctrl-p: Cursor up
• Ctrl-b: Cursor left
• Ctrl-f: Cursor right