Questions tagged [nano]
nano is a text editor from the GNU project; apply this tag if you are asking about features or functionality of the editor
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nano - include: command not found
I am trying to edit my .nanorc file to include the syntax highlighting profiles located in /etc/share/nano/ folder.
When I have the first line as 'set tabsize 4', I get an error: 'set: Variable name ...
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delete from and to cursor in "nano"
I use nano, and I want to use control + k and control + u to delete to and from the cursor how it is in the regular shell, but they have different functions in nano by default.
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Keybindings in nanorc won't work in AWS EC2 Linux
I'm connected to a aws linux vm via ssh as you can see below. I want rebind key codes in .nanorc e.g. bind ^C copy main. But if I reopen nano I got message that there are mistakes in .nanorc. Those ...
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how to bind a `key chord` to more than one `function` in `nano`?
I'm configuring nano to make quick edits while using sublime text for working on bigger projects.
I ran into some issues, one of which is not able to bind a single key chord to multiple functions. I ...
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nano change line numbers color
How can I change the actual editor theme in .nanorc, I am not speaking about the syntax highlighting but editor elements such as titlebar or line numbers color/background color?
For instance, I would ...
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Why does nano indent pasted text or code improperly?
When I copy and paste text from the clipboard, the code looks like
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
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Nano: is there anyway to add space between marked lines?
It's easy to justify and indent lines, but is there a way to add spaces between them for clarity like in a double spaced word document?
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Which argument in Nano saves the file automatically?
I'm trying to saves the file automatically in Nano but didn't succeed. what is the option to do this?
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Why does nano have two different copy/pastes?
Without mouse support enabled (my default), you can drag your mouse over text and do standard "copy/paste" with right click, which enables you to paste the test anywhere on your operating ...
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Nano: can the escape key be mapped?
I've been playing with the keyboard mapping in the .nanorc file some today, and you can map the F keys like...bind F3 cancel all, however, i haven't had any luck with trying find how nano recognizes ...
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Nano: how to just open a new file buffer inside of nano without altering the current one?
I love the nano feature that enables you to open multiple files at once and the fact that switching between them is very easy:
nano file1 file2 etc.
However, when I try to open a new file while ...
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nano highlighting fails in matching shell array brackets
The last two array expansions don't get proper highlighting:
This is the setting in sh.nanorc that defines it:
# More complicated variable names; handles braces and replacements and arrays.
color ...
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Nano can not find previous occurrence while searching with alt+Q shortcut
I was trying to find a text with nano. Ctrl+W shows the text and with alt+W I can go the next occurrence but when I try to go to the previous occurrence with alt+Q, I see a message
Conversion of ...
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Save file changes if you forgot to use sudo [duplicate]
I am using Nano.
Sometimes I make changes to a file and then after attempting to save I realize that I need sudo permissions. Then I need to close the file, reopen it as sudo and make my changes again....
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What are the weird characters from an image file?
So i am pretty new to linux and i am learning basic commands. I am also very interested to know how things work under the hood, so sometime after i learned both the cat and nano commands, i tried ...
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Is it possible to easily switch between tabs and spaces in nano on MAC?
Is it possible to easily switch between tabs and spaces in nano on MAC. I have seen here how to do that but this doesn't work, maybe because I am working with a mac machine
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xargs nano leads to Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM while xargs less is OK
Scenario:
$ cat t0.txt
t1.txt
$ cat t1.txt
xxx
$ sed -n 1p t0.txt | xargs less
# OK
$ sed -n 1p t0.txt | xargs nano
Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM
dvl-linux64 $ nano --version
GNU nano, version 2.5.3
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I need to run ~$ sudo nano in order write and save a file and can't do so with just the nano command. How do I change this?
To make the question better understood -> I currently have to run nano with sudo when i just want to run nano to edit a file.
So while I was fiddling with Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM I had everything more ...
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Export nano's syntax highlighting
I like how nano highlights bash scripts and I often use GNOME terminal's "Copy as HTML" option to copy/paste the color highlights to LibreOffice when writing documentation. That works fine ...
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Sorting lines in nano?
Is it possible to sort a selected area of text alphabetically using the nano editor?
( similar to the F10 in xed )
I use Linux Mint 20 , nano 4.8
Thank you
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Syntax highlighting combinations of strings and comments in nano
I was wondering if anyone could tell me if it possible to configure syntax highlighting in .nanorc so that in the following text ...
Dim s$ = "foo ' bar" ' bar "foo"
... the ...
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Jump to line in nano
When using nano in any of several terminal emulators Ctrl + / invokes Enter line number, column number: dialog. However when working from a virtual terminal e.g. Ctrl + Alt + F4 nothing happens. Why?
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Tmux changes to default preinstalled nano version instead of newly installed homebrew one
When i use nano in the terminal without enabling tmux, it shows the path for the brew version nano is an alias for /opt/homebrew/Cellar/nano
However when i use tmux, type nano shows the same path but ...
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How to combine the commands "find" and "nano"
How can I combine the "find" command with the "nano" command?
For example,
find . -name "helloworld.py" | nano
How to open that file (first out of several lets say) ...
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How to search for Debian CLI packages?
I recently installed Debian for CLI purposes.
I am looking to install CLI packages, I want to know how to search for packages (CLI packages such as nano)?
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Synology ipkg nano - line numbers are wrong, and sometimes appear on the wrong side of the file
update
I submitted a bug report and the conclusion is that the nano version that's available through ipkg is 3 years outdated, and has been incorrectly modified or a dependency is broken.
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Which linters are supported by nano?
In my latex.nanorc file, I have the following instructions:
syntax "LaTeX" "\.(la)?tex$"
linter lacheck
However, when I press the keyboard shortcut to run the linter, I get an ...
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Why I can't open text files when execetue "x" permission is on?
for example I have test_file and I run sudo chmod 775 test_file so now while I'm the owner I can read,write and execute it but with graphical interface it doesn't work, I don't have any error messages ...
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Nano: keyboard shortcut to move cursor to the beginning of the next empty line?
In nano text editor: what is the keyboard shortcut to move cursor to the beginning of the next empty line? If there is no default one, then what would be the right one?
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Nano c.nanorc format
I like portability between systems and I was trying to make my nano editor look as much as possible like Sublime Text (on Linux Mint). I want to color function names too. So far I managed to make it ...
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Is it possible to show a vim cheatsheet like in Nano at the bottom of the page?
I am using Debian GNU/Linux.
Are there any options or extensions to vim that give me the possibility to display a cheat sheet in vim as shown in Nano?
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Using multiple .nanorc files
I am not sure if this can be done or not. I have two different .nanorc files (.nanorc1 and .nanorc2). Each file has different settings. For example one has tabs set to 9 spaces and the other has ...
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How to use locally installed latest version of nano (on CentOS 7) by default? (No admin privileges)
I compiled the nano editor (version 5.3) on CentOS 7.
However, which nano gives /usr/bin/nano.
nano --version gives GNU nano version 2.3.1.
I have locally installed ~/.local/bin/nano --version GNU ...
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Basic linux commands (sudo/apt-get/nano) not found
I'm using Linux sa515 on this application processor but I can't seem to run any of the following commands:
sudo
apt-get
nano
It says the corresponding command is not found. Am I missing something?
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paste content in nano removes new lines
I have this strange behavior in nano using the Tilix terminal (works in another terminal) where, if I paste something, the new lines are completely removed, content is wrapped and new lines are ...
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need help with my menu program
i'm having issue with the script, the selection 2 and 3 doesn't show anything when executing.
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
clear
echo "========================"
echo "Menu ----"...
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Restore empty docker-compose file
I was working on a sizeable docker-compose file using the nano editor. Upon saving it told me I was out of disk space. Without hesitating, I quit nano, extended my LVM and resized the FS as I have ...
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Is there a way to have nano to pipe output to another program's input?
I have a program A that pipes its input to nano this way: program_a | nano -. I want to make edits with nano and pipe it again to another program B, without having nano to write anything on the disk (...
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How to save gedit changes right along with nano changes, instead of appending ~?
I've got a .nanorc file that I love, records all changes to files when using nano. Gedit, on the other hand, just writes out a file next to the live version with a ~ appended. Is there some bit of ...
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Line length marker in nano
How can I highlight a given column using nano?
I'm using a fairly large terminal but I would like a mark to know if my code exceeds the limit of let's say 80 characters.
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Terminal editor/pager that allows jumping to particular line based on external command or file?
I'd like to script something so that an existing process viewing a listing file jumps to a particular line. The process might be less or nano or, if need be, another pager or editor. I would, if ...
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Display full path in title bar of nano editor
The nano editor by default displays only the filename being edited, but not its full path.
This can be a problem, if I need to edit old vs new versions of files by the same name.
Does anyone know of ...
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How to toggle nano softwrap on mac
I tried the following recommended approaches unsuccessfully to toggle softwrap in nano on MacOS Catalina:
I can't do Alt+S as in the manual, it gives ß on my keyboard.
Esc-S gives "Smooth scrolling ...
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How to solve the issue where nano screen text is scrambled when using su - admin
In Terminal I su - admin while in my user account to brew update, modify .bashrc, etc.
I have noticed that when in my user session changing the size of the window while running nano doesn't scramble ...
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Bad regex : Invalid range end
Can you help with this regex in my sourceslist.nanorc ?
Regex:
cdrom:\[[a-zA-Z0-9\._-\(\) ]+\]/
Error:
Bad regex "cdrom:\[[a-zA-Z0-9\._-\(\) ]+\]/": Invalid range end
Thank you.
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sudo: unable to initialize PAM: No such file or directory after editing pam.d
I was playing around with the pam.d file in nano and for some reason along the way I lost root access. Whenever I try to use the sudo command, I get an error like this:
[redacted]@[redacted] ~ % sudo ...
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Nano - highlight trailing whitespaces
I use nano as my standard editor for a file type it has no build in syntax-highlighting for LilyPond. It is nothing I really need, though I'm missing out quite a lot of white-space characters at the ...
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Bash script's array element can't act as a filename for nano, some kind of encoding error
I'm looking to write a bash script that recursively searches directories, find a particular string, then opens to that string in that particular file.
I call this function exert because it takes away ...
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Can I open an editor as part of a piping command to edit the piped string? [duplicate]
I would like to do this:
git --git-dir=../navcl/.git format-patch -k -1 --stdout 607780ee9 \
| nano \
| git am -3 -k
The issue is, in my other git dir, a file path is different, so I need to ...
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is there a way to invoke nano <filename> so it will fail if <filename> doesn't exist?
I am creating a set of instructions like
nano /home/username/preexisting-file.txt
where, of course, we tell people to replace "username" with their own username. But people still forget, and they ...
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