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3<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Manpage of NANO</TITLE>
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5<H1>NANO</H1>
Chris Allegretta90941712000-12-03 03:23:16 +0000[diff] [blame]6Section: User Commands (1)<BR>Updated: December 2, 2000<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]7<A HREF="http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html">Return to Main Contents</A><HR>
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Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]11<A NAME="lbAB">&nbsp;</A>
12<H2>NAME</H2>
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14nano - Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico Clone
15<A NAME="lbAC">&nbsp;</A>
16<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
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18<B>nano</B>
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20[options]&nbsp;[+LINE]<I> file</I>
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22<BR>
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24<A NAME="lbAD">&nbsp;</A>
25<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
26
27This manual page documents briefly the
28<B>nano</B>
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30command.
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Chris Allegretta90941712000-12-03 03:23:16 +0000[diff] [blame]36<B>nano</B> is a small, free and friendly editor which aims to replace
37Pico, the default editor included in the non-free Pine package. Rather
38than just copying Pico's look and feel,
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]39<B>nano</B>
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Chris Allegretta90941712000-12-03 03:23:16 +0000[diff] [blame]41also implements some missing (or disabled by default) features in Pico,
42such as &quot;search and replace&quot; and &quot;goto line number&quot;.
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]43<A NAME="lbAE">&nbsp;</A>
44<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
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46<DL COMPACT>
Chris Allegretta4da1fc62000-06-21 03:00:43 +0000[diff] [blame]47<DT><B>-T (--tabsize)</B>
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49<DD>
Chris Allegrettabbd96ea2000-08-04 02:05:44 +0000[diff] [blame]50Set the size (width) of a tab.
Chris Allegrettaa408edd2000-07-07 04:20:09 +0000[diff] [blame]51<DT><B>-R (--regexp)</B>
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53<DD>
54Enable regular expression matching for search strings, as well as
55\n subexpression replacement for replace strings, if available.
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]56<DT><B>-V (--version)</B>
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58<DD>
59Show the current version number and author.
60<DT><B>-h (--help)</B>
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62<DD>
63Display a summary of commandline options.
64<DT><B>-c (--const)</B>
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66<DD>
67Constantly show the cursor position.
Chris Allegretta84ff4792000-07-28 17:29:22 +0000[diff] [blame]68<DT><B>-k (--cut)</B>
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70<DD>
71Enable cut from cursor to end of line with ^K.
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]72<DT><B>-i (--autoindent)</B>
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74<DD>
75Indent new lines to the previous line's indentation. Useful when editing
76source code.
77<DT><B>-l (--nofollow)</B>
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79<DD>
80If the file being edited is a symbolic link, replace the link with a
81a new file, do not follow it. Good for editing files in /tmp perhaps?
82<DT><B>-m (--mouse)</B>
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84<DD>
85Enable mouse support (if available for your system).
86<DT><B>-p (--pico)</B>
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88<DD>
Chris Allegretta51b3eec2000-12-18 02:23:50 +0000[diff] [blame]89Emulate Pico as closely as possible. This affects both the &quot;shortcut list&quot;
90at the bottom of the screen, as well as the display and entry of previous
91search and replace strings.
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]92<DT><B>-s (--speller)</B>
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94<DD>
95Enable alternative spell checker command.
96<DT><B>-t (--tempfile)</B>
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98<DD>
99Always save changed buffer without prompting. Same as Pico -t option.
100<DT><B>-v (--view)</B>
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102<DD>
103View file (read only) mode.
104<DT><B>-w (--nowrap)</B>
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106<DD>
107Disable wrapping of long lines.
108<DT><B>-x (--nohelp)</B>
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110<DD>
111Disable help screen at bottom of editor.
112<DT><B>-z (--suspend)</B>
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114<DD>
115Enable suspend ability.
Chris Allegretta51b3eec2000-12-18 02:23:50 +0000[diff] [blame]116<DT><B>-b, -e, -f</B>
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118<DD>
119Ignored, for compatibility with Pico.
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]120<DT><B>+LINE</B>
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122<DD>
123Places cursor at LINE on startup.
124</DL>
125<A NAME="lbAF">&nbsp;</A>
Chris Allegretta90941712000-12-03 03:23:16 +0000[diff] [blame]126<H2>NOTES</H2>
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128Nano will try to dump the buffer into an emergency file in some cases.
129Mainly, this will happen if Nano recieves a SIGHUP or runs out of
130memory, when it will write the buffer into a file named &quot;nano.save&quot; if the
131buffer didn't have a name already, or will add a &quot;.save&quot; suffix to the
132current finename. Nano will <B>not</B> write this file if a previous one
133exists in the current directory.
134<A NAME="lbAG">&nbsp;</A>
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]135<H2>BUGS</H2>
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137Please send any comments or bug reports to
Chris Allegretta90941712000-12-03 03:23:16 +0000[diff] [blame]138<BR>
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Chris Allegretta66989d62000-09-27 03:16:11 +0000[diff] [blame]140<B><A HREF="mailto:nano@nano-editor.org">nano@nano-editor.org</A>.</B>
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]141
Chris Allegretta90941712000-12-03 03:23:16 +0000[diff] [blame]142<BR>
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Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]144The nano mailing list is available from
Chris Allegretta90941712000-12-03 03:23:16 +0000[diff] [blame]145<BR>
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Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]147<B><A HREF="mailto:nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</A>.</B>
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149To subscribe, email to <A HREF="mailto:nano-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net">nano-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net</A> with a
150subject of &quot;subscribe&quot;.
Chris Allegretta90941712000-12-03 03:23:16 +0000[diff] [blame]151<A NAME="lbAH">&nbsp;</A>
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]152<H2>HOMEPAGE</H2>
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Chris Allegretta66989d62000-09-27 03:16:11 +0000[diff] [blame]154<A HREF="http://www.nano-editor.org">http://www.nano-editor.org</A>
Chris Allegretta90941712000-12-03 03:23:16 +0000[diff] [blame]155<A NAME="lbAI">&nbsp;</A>
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]156<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
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Chris Allegretta90941712000-12-03 03:23:16 +0000[diff] [blame]158Chris Allegretta &lt;<A HREF="mailto:chrisa@asty.org">chrisa@asty.org</A>&gt;, et al (see AUTHORS for details).
159This manual page was originally written by Jordi Mallach
160&lt;<A HREF="mailto:jordi@sindominio.net">jordi@sindominio.net</A>&gt;, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be
161used by others).
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]162<P>
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164<HR>
165<A NAME="index">&nbsp;</A><H2>Index</H2>
166<DL>
167<DT><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
168<DT><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
169<DT><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
170<DT><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A><DD>
Chris Allegretta90941712000-12-03 03:23:16 +0000[diff] [blame]171<DT><A HREF="#lbAF">NOTES</A><DD>
172<DT><A HREF="#lbAG">BUGS</A><DD>
173<DT><A HREF="#lbAH">HOMEPAGE</A><DD>
174<DT><A HREF="#lbAI">AUTHOR</A><DD>
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]175</DL>
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179using the manual pages.<BR>
Chris Allegretta51b3eec2000-12-18 02:23:50 +0000[diff] [blame]180Time: 02:16:52 GMT, December 18, 2000
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