Here Are Some Tips & Tricks for (Mac) OS X and GNU/Linux Nano Text Editor Including Shortcuts, Line Numbers, Going to Line Number etc. Basic Things. vi is definitely a powerful text editor, you can read How to Use vi Text Editor, but basically for the new Linux and OS X user, Nano appears better. It is better to help the user to shift from closed source software like Microsoft Windows in a smooth way. When Nano’s limitations will push them to use vi, they’ll definitely use vi. A human trying to ssh for the first time in life, if we instruct them to use vi, only the difficulty of using a text editor becomes the reason to fear ssh, honestly, that is not exactly what is called Free Software agonistic approach. These Nano Text Editor Tips & Tricks are possibly not for 100% new user, but can help many users in real life.
Nano Text Editor Tips & Tricks : OS X and Syntax Highlighting
We love Syntax Highlighting. Only for Nano, we have some useful guides and projects :
We are not mentioning more guides related to Syntax Highlighting for Nano. You can perform a search on this website later, if you want.
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Nano Text Editor Tips & Tricks
These are the parameters which you can define in ~./nanorc file, most can be understood from the name. Use one by one. Do not copy paste the whole file. You’ll need to run source ~./nanorc after each changes :
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# Turn on auto-indent set autoindent # Turn on the creation of backup files set backup set backupdir "/path/to/backups" set mouse set multibuffer set casesensitive set noconvert set nofollow # Turn off the Help set nohelp set historylog set view set nowrap set regexp set smooth set speller aspell set tabsize 10 set tabstospaces set tempfile set fill 72 |
unset does opposite action versus set. It forces to change the default behavior. Everyone knows the Mac keyboard shortcuts, yet if you press control + G on Mac or ctrl + G on other keyboards, you’ll get all the shortcuts. You will get many great stuffs here than any blog websites :
http://www.nano-editor.org/docs.php
One thing, quite commonly we need to use is – going to Line number AB. For example, you ran :
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nginx -t |
You might get error in configtest with line number 80. In that case, you can open the file with cursor on the line in this way :
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nano +80 /etc/nginx/sites-available/default |
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