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| Section: User Commands (1)<BR>Updated: July 30, 2002<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A> |
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| <H2>NAME</H2> |
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| nano - Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico Clone |
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| <H2>SYNOPSIS</H2> |
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| <B>nano</B> |
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| <I>[+LINE] [options] [file]</I> |
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| <H2>DESCRIPTION</H2> |
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| This manual page documents briefly the <B>nano</B> command. |
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| <B>nano</B> 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</B> also implements some |
| missing (or disabled by default) features in Pico, such as "search and |
| replace" and "go to line number". |
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| <H2>OPTIONS</H2> |
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| <DT><B>+</B><I>LINE</I> |
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| Places cursor at <I>LINE</I> on startup. |
| <DT><B>-B (--backup)</B> |
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| When saving a file, back up the previous version of it to the current |
| filename suffixed with a ~. |
| <DT><B>-D (--dos)</B> |
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| Write file in DOS format. |
| <DT><B>-F (--multibuffer)</B> |
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| Enable multiple file buffers, if available. |
| <DT><B>-I (--ignorercfiles)</B> |
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| Don't look at /etc/nanorc or ~/.nanorc, if nanorc support is available. |
| <DT><B>-K (--keypad)</B> |
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| Do not use the ncurses keypad() call unless necessary. Try this flag if |
| you find that the arrow keys on the numeric keypad do not work for you |
| under nano. |
| <DT><B>-M (--mac)</B> |
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| Write file in Mac format. |
| <DT><B>-N (--noconvert)</B> |
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| Disable automatic conversion of files from DOS/Mac format. |
| <DT><B>-Q </B><I>[str]</I> (--quotestr=<I>[str]</I>) |
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| Set the quoting string for justifying. The default is |
| "^([ \t]*[|>:}#])+" if regular expression support is available, or |
| "> " otherwise. |
| <DT><B>-R (--regexp)</B> |
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| Enable regular expression matching for search strings, as well as |
| \n subexpression replacement for replace strings, if available. |
| <DT><B>-S (--smooth)</B> |
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| Enable smooth scrolling. Text will scroll line-by-line, instead of the |
| usual chunk-by-chunk behavior. |
| <DT><B>-T </B><I>[num]</I> (--tabsize=<I>[num]</I>) |
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| Set the size (width) of a tab. |
| <DT><B>-V (--version)</B> |
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| Show the current version number and author. |
| <DT><B>-Y </B><I>[str]</I> (--syntax=<I>[str]</I>) |
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| Specify a specific syntax highlighting from the .nanorc to use, if |
| available. |
| <DT><B>-c (--const)</B> |
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| Constantly show the cursor position. |
| <DT><B>-h (--help)</B> |
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| Display a summary of command line options. |
| <DT><B>-i (--autoindent)</B> |
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| <DD> |
| Indent new lines to the previous line's indentation. Useful when editing |
| source code. |
| <DT><B>-k (--cut)</B> |
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| <DD> |
| Enable cut from cursor to end of line with ^K. |
| <DT><B>-l (--nofollow)</B> |
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| <DD> |
| If the file being edited is a symbolic link, replace the link with |
| a new file, do not follow it. Good for editing files in /tmp, perhaps? |
| <DT><B>-m (--mouse)</B> |
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| Enable mouse support (if available for your system). |
| <DT><B>-o </B><I>[dir]</I> (--operatingdir=<I>[dir]</I>) |
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| Set operating directory. Makes nano set up something similar to a |
| chroot. |
| <DT><B>-p (--pico)</B> |
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| Emulate Pico as closely as possible. This affects both the "shortcut |
| list" at the bottom of the screen, as well as the display and entry of |
| previous search and replace strings. |
| <DT><B>-r </B><I>[#cols]</I> (--fill=<I>[#cols]</I>) |
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| Wrap lines at column #cols. By default, this is the width of the |
| screen, less eight. If this value is negative, wrapping will occur at |
| #cols from the right of the screen, allowing it to vary along with the |
| screen width if the screen is resized. |
| <DT><B>-s </B><I>[prog]</I> (--speller=<I>[prog]</I>) |
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| Enable alternative spell checker command. |
| <DT><B>-t (--tempfile)</B> |
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| Always save changed buffer without prompting. Same as Pico -t option. |
| <DT><B>-v (--view)</B> |
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| View file (read only) mode. |
| <DT><B>-w (--nowrap)</B> |
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| Disable wrapping of long lines. |
| <DT><B>-x (--nohelp)</B> |
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| <DD> |
| Disable help screen at bottom of editor. |
| <DT><B>-z (--suspend)</B> |
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| <DD> |
| Enable suspend ability. |
| <DT><B>-a, -b, -e, -f, -g, -j</B> |
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| Ignored, for compatibility with Pico. |
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| <H2>NOTES</H2> |
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| <B>nano</B> will try to dump the buffer into an emergency file in some |
| cases. Mainly, this will happen if <B>nano</B> receives 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 filename. If an emergency file with that |
| name already exists in the current directory, ".save" and a number (e.g. |
| ".save.1") will be suffixed to the current filename in order to make it |
| unique. In multibuffer mode, <B>nano</B> will write all the open buffers |
| to the respective emergency files. |
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| <H2>BUGS</H2> |
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| Please send any comments or bug reports to |
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| <B><A HREF="mailto:nano@nano-editor.org">nano@nano-editor.org</A>.</B> |
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| The <B>nano</B> mailing list is available from |
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| <B><A HREF="mailto:nano-devel@gnu.org">nano-devel@gnu.org</A>.</B> |
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| To subscribe, email to <A HREF="mailto:nano-devel-request@gnu.org">nano-devel-request@gnu.org</A> with a |
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| <H2>HOMEPAGE</H2> |
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| <A HREF="http://www.nano-editor.org">http://www.nano-editor.org</A> |
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| <H2>AUTHOR</H2> |
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| Chris Allegretta <<A HREF="mailto:chrisa@asty.org">chrisa@asty.org</A>>, et al (see AUTHORS and THANKS for |
| details). |
| This manual page was originally written by Jordi Mallach |
| <<A HREF="mailto:jordi@sindominio.net">jordi@sindominio.net</A>>, for the Debian GNU system (but may be |
| used by others). |
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| <A NAME="index"> </A><H2>Index</H2> |
| <DL> |
| <DT><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD> |
| <DT><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD> |
| <DT><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD> |
| <DT><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A><DD> |
| <DT><A HREF="#lbAF">NOTES</A><DD> |
| <DT><A HREF="#lbAG">BUGS</A><DD> |
| <DT><A HREF="#lbAH">HOMEPAGE</A><DD> |
| <DT><A HREF="#lbAI">AUTHOR</A><DD> |
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