| Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- |
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| 5 | .TH NANO 1 "January 4, 2000" |
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| 18 | .SH NAME |
| 19 | nano \- Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico Clone |
| 20 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 21 | .B nano |
| 22 | .RI [options]\ [+LINE] " file" |
| 23 | .br |
| 24 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 25 | This manual page documents briefly the |
| 26 | .B nano |
| 27 | command. |
| 28 | .PP |
| 29 | .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and |
| 30 | .\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, |
| 31 | .\" respectively. |
| 32 | \fBnano\fP was originally known as TIP (TIP Isn't Pico). It is a small, |
| 33 | free and friendly editor which aims to replace Pico, the default editor |
| 34 | included in the non-free Pine package. Rather than just copying Pico's |
| 35 | look and feel, |
| 36 | .B nano |
| 37 | also implements some missing (or disabled by |
| 38 | default) features in Pico, such as "search and replace" and "goto line |
| 39 | number". |
| 40 | .SH OPTIONS |
| 41 | .TP |
| Chris Allegretta | 4da1fc6 | 2000-06-21 03:00:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | .B \-T (\-\-tabsize) |
| 43 | Set the size (width) of a tab, if supported by your curses library. |
| 44 | .TP |
| Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | .B \-V (\-\-version) |
| 46 | Show the current version number and author. |
| 47 | .TP |
| 48 | .B \-h (\-\-help) |
| 49 | Display a summary of commandline options. |
| 50 | .TP |
| 51 | .B \-c (\-\-const) |
| 52 | Constantly show the cursor position. |
| 53 | .TP |
| 54 | .B \-i (\-\-autoindent) |
| 55 | Indent new lines to the previous line's indentation. Useful when editing |
| 56 | source code. |
| 57 | .TP |
| 58 | .B \-l (\-\-nofollow) |
| 59 | If the file being edited is a symbolic link, replace the link with a |
| 60 | a new file, do not follow it. Good for editing files in /tmp perhaps? |
| 61 | .TP |
| 62 | .B \-m (\-\-mouse) |
| 63 | Enable mouse support (if available for your system). |
| 64 | .TP |
| 65 | .B \-p (\-\-pico) |
| 66 | Display the same shortcut lists as Pico does. |
| 67 | .TP |
| 68 | .B \-s (\-\-speller) |
| 69 | Enable alternative spell checker command. |
| 70 | .TP |
| 71 | .B \-t (\-\-tempfile) |
| 72 | Always save changed buffer without prompting. Same as Pico -t option. |
| 73 | .TP |
| 74 | .B \-v (\-\-view) |
| 75 | View file (read only) mode. |
| 76 | .TP |
| 77 | .B \-w (\-\-nowrap) |
| 78 | Disable wrapping of long lines. |
| 79 | .TP |
| 80 | .B \-x (\-\-nohelp) |
| 81 | Disable help screen at bottom of editor. |
| 82 | .TP |
| 83 | .B \-z (\-\-suspend) |
| 84 | Enable suspend ability. |
| 85 | .TP |
| 86 | .B \+LINE |
| 87 | Places cursor at LINE on startup. |
| 88 | .SH BUGS |
| 89 | Please send any comments or bug reports to |
| 90 | .B nano@asty.org. |
| 91 | The nano mailing list is available from |
| 92 | .B nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. |
| 93 | To subscribe, email to nano-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net with a |
| 94 | subject of "subscribe". |
| 95 | .SH HOMEPAGE |
| 96 | http://www.asty.org/nano |
| 97 | .SH AUTHOR |
| 98 | Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>, et al. This manual page was |
| 99 | originally written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net>, for the Debian |
| 100 | GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). |