Nano

Nano is a common and easy to use text editor. It is available for Linux and Windows. Another very commonly used text editor is Vi.

Installation

Debian / Ubuntu

Nano comes installed by default in Debian and Ubuntu.

 aptitude install nano

Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora

 yum install nano

Other operating systems

http://www.nano-editor.org/download.php

Usage

Open nano using the command:

 nano

Open a file with nano (for example here we open the ssh configuration file):

 nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Command listing in nano is simply shown on the bottom of the text editor. The ^ symbol means the CTRL key on your keyboard.

• CTRL + G = Get help
• CTRL + X = Exit (Close file)
• CTRL + O = WriteOut
• CTRL + J = Justify
• CTRL + R = Read File
• CTRL + W = Where is (Fetch from file)

...

Shortcuts

Function	Shortcut	Note
Copy line	ALT+6
Remove line	CTRL+K
Attach line	CTRL+U

Lähteet

http://www.nano-editor.org/

http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/nano.html