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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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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Graphical glitches in Nano when using ssh
I have Windows 10 and I'm using ssh in powershell. Nano editor is very glitchy though, when I'm writing something, the cursor suddenly jumps at random places (especially to the rightmost place at the ...
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How to use nano's Redo shortcut (Meta+E) in MATE terminal
I'm using:
Debian bullseye with its MATE desktop environment
MATE caja 1.22.1
MATE Terminal 1.22.1
GNU nano, version 4.3
In nano, Redo is mapped to Meta+E. In Keyboard Preferences I have selected "...
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mc (midnight commander) view (F3) strange behavior when there is a “.” in the filename
It seems to ignore newline characters in "parsed" view. In raw view everything is fine. Same thing happens in nano "justified" mode.
a) parsed text file
b) same file in raw mode
c) vi with :set ...
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Unwanted trailing white-spaces comes along on copy-paste
I'm using Tmux & Zsh (WSL) and am very frustrated with all the white-spaces that comes with when copy content from a file while using nano.
nano .zshrc
.
When using Shift+Right Mouse Button or ...
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How to determine what my bookmarks were after browser reset to default?
I blew out my browser when I improperly restarted my desktop. I was able to to find my bookmarks in Nano, but because they were in folders, their urls are not available to see in Nano. Below are the ...
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How decrypt a file in nano text editor?
I encrypted a text file in terminal using "gpg -c filename" and got "filename.txt.gpg" created in my file manager. I deleted the original unencrypted file.
Now I want to decrypt it in Nano so I can ...
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Horizontal scrolling in nano editor?
I am using nano on files with long lines.
How could I scroll the nano window horizontally?
Ex:
┌────────────┐
|Lorem ipsum |dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit,
|sed do eiusm|od tempor ...
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When I try to load and edit files in nano or vi, it only creates a new blank file. Why is this?
When I try to load any files in nano or vi, it simply creates a blank [New File]. For some reason it won't load any files I'm trying to edit. I'm at a loss. Why would this be?
I open up a terminal ...
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Nano text editor - How to bring back on the syntax coloring?
I am using the Nano text editor.
Before, there was color on every command I typed, but now I don't know what buttons I pressed as there are no more colors.
How to bring back on the syntax coloring?
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How can I set the default editor as nano on my Mac?
I have vim as default editor on my Mac and every time I run commands on Mac terminal, it automatically opens "vim".
How can I set up "nano" instead and make sure the terminal will open "nano" every ...
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Can't create new file with nano, Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM
I found only this question of this subject: Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM: nano cannot edit empty file
I'm configuring my web server. There wasn't any problems earlier and I would like to know exactly ...
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Output in terminal after quitting program
I'm using Kubuntu with i3, and I've recently migrated from Manjaro because things. My terminal emulator is urxvt but, when I use programs such as vim, less or nano in the terminal remains the part of ...
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Nano editor: are Ctrl keybindings actually bitmasked?
I wanted to make Nano have more common shortcuts (i.e. Ctrl-F for search, Ctrl-H for replace, etc) and edited the nanorc file to add:
bind ^F whereis all
bind ^H replace all
bind ^M mark all
...
To ...
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How to override /etc/nanorc systemwide?
I want all users of nano to have tabsize 4 instead of the default 8. What is the best way to achieve this? I would prefer a file that overrides /etc/nanorc at the system level so I don't have to ...
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Prevent Nano from creating .save files?
I have a problem with the Nano editor. If it ever exits unexpectedly, it leaves behind .save files, which are just versions of the edits I was making. Is there a way to disable this behaviour?
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How to delete current word in nano text editor?
How to delete the complete word where cursor is positioned in nano text editor? Or if cursor is on white space, I assume it should delete the next word?
Nano help shows these two functions but they ...
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Interpolated and literal Perl strings in Nano are incorrectly highlighted
I am trying to improve Nano's syntax highlighting for Perl, but I have run into an interesting dilemma. Perl uses single quotes for literal strings, and double quotes for interpolated strings. The ...
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nano text file formatter? [closed]
Is there a SIMPLE way to format nano file text?
My code is getting pretty messy, so it MAY help to format it.
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How to comment multiple lines in nano at once?
I can able to select multiple lines using Esc+A. After this, what shortcut(s) should I use to comment/uncomment the selected lines?
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Mistyped command: sudo nano / -name “supervisor”
Instead of using sudo find / -name "supervisor" I ran sudo nano / -name "supervisor" by mistake, which looked like it opened a blank nano file before I hit CRTL-X...
$ sudo nano / -name "supervisor"
...
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find and replace “tabs” using search and replace in nano
How can I search and replace horizontal-tabs in nano? I've been trying to use [\t] in regex mode, but this only matches every occurrence of the character t?
...just been using sed 's/\t//g' file ...
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How can you bind ^[ or M-[ shortcut to an action in nano?
I have been trying to bind the shortcut CTRL-[ to the unindent function, but it seems like that if you type in bind ^[ unindent main (CTRL-[) into nanorc, the text will be still formatted in red, not ...
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How to constantly show line number when navigating in nano?
I am looking for a keyboard shortcut to show the line numbers in nano editor when navigating up and and down within the file.
I have seen in multiple posts about CTRL+C but this doesn't automatically ...
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How to exit nano from a different terminal?
I was ssh'ing into a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian, editing a file with nano, when I lost my internet connection (by leaving the WiFi zone). After reconnecting an hour later, I found that the pi had ...
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-bash: /usr/bin/nano: No such file or directory
I have this problem on fresh install of Debian 8 (after doing apt upgrade).
nano is installed but when I try to use it to open a file :
nano myfile.txt
I get:
-bash: /usr/bin/nano: No such file or ...
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Can I modify the behaviour of backspace in gnu nano?
I tried to configure my nano to more python friendly editor. I wrote the following to my .nanorc
set tabsize 4
set tabstospaces
I was wondering if I can change the bahavior of backspace such that ...
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cancel a search in nano?
So I'm editing this 1MB file on a slow command-line only Debian machine, and I accidentally forgot to untick a "Search Backwards" mark when searching for something. So now Debian is searching for ...
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How can I get syntax highlighting on CronTab when using Nano as Editor?
Ubuntu, RaspBian and FreeBSD offer the user to choose editor on first crontab -e execution, so I selected Nano Editor.
But syntax highlighting seems not be enabled.
I tried the same parameter I use ...
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Copy a line of text from nano running in a shell over ssh in order to paste into a local gedit instance
I routinely access remote files using nano in a terminal shell over ssh.
Sometimes I'd like to copy a large amount of text (sometimes one line sometimes a large block) and paste it into a local ...
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How to open a terminal file in TextEdit
I use nano <file_name> to open/edit files on terminal. However it's very hard to edit so is there a way to open terminal files in TextEdit?
EDIT:
open -a TextEdit <my_file_name> and open ...
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Nano - jump to end of file
I have some long log files. I can view the last lines with tail -n 50 file.txt, but sometimes I need to edit those last lines.
How do I jump straight to the end of a file when viewing it with nano?
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Why is /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed not modifiable by sudo emacs?
I would like to edit /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed to change its content from 800000 to 1600000.
I first try with emacs
$ sudo emacs -nw /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/...
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Echo something to console each time you quit crontab
To edit the root crontab in Debian I do for example sudo crontab -e. To exit from the preferred text editor (Nano), I do CTLR+X.
So far so good, but what if I want that each time I exit crontab, a ...
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How to make 'emacs' indent with tabs exactly how 'nano' does…?
How can I configure ~/.emacs so that I indent how nano does by default?
Uses a tab character instead of 5 spaces
I can add as many tabs to a line as I please
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How to edit files in text editor and not terminal when using nano command? [closed]
So when I use nano it opens a little interface to edit the file. However, is there a way to open the file with text editor?, as that is much easier to edit, navigate and save.
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How to get rid of “nano not found” warnings, without installing nano?
Installed Debian Stretch (9.3). Installed Vim and removed Nano. Vim is selected as the default editor.
Every time I run crontab -e, I get these warnings:
root@franklin:~# crontab -e
no crontab for ...
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Cannot Save ~/.bash_profile file
As the attached picture shows, Ctrl+O or Ctrl+X does not save the ~/.bash_profile file. Notice the dot on the red circle for closing the window. I also tried other editors such as vim and emacs and ...
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GNU nano 2: DOS Format or Mac Format on Linux
Which format (Mac or DOS) should I use on Linux PCs/Clusters?
I know the difference:
DOS format uses "carriage return" (CR or \r) then "line feed" (LF or \n).
Mac format uses "carriage return" (CR ...
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Use keyboard shortcut automatically in nano? [duplicate]
I'd like the line numbers to show automatically whenever I use nano. I've seen the set const command in ~/.nanorc but I want to see the line numbers in the column to the left, activated by meta-# ...
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Re-bind alt left/right in nano
I'd like to rebind the alt-left and alt-right keybindings in nano, can't seem to get it to work. I'm on ubuntu 16.04
my ~/.nanorc file:
bind M-right nextword main
bind M-left prevword main
version ...
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How do I make nano act like vi when it comes to text wrapping?
When using vi and long lines, the text are wrap but vi doesn't insert a CR/LF at the end of the line. With nano, if I start typing and the line becomes too long, it will insert CR/LF at the end of the ...
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nano - soft wrap at 80 characters
I would like nano to soft-wrap at 80 characters. That is, as I keep typing, the text should flow to the next line beyond 80 characters, without nano insert a \n newline at 80 characters.
set softwrap
...
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How to copy and paste in nano editor with mouse enabled? [duplicate]
In normal mode, I can use mouse left button to copy and right button to paste, but not with mouse mode:
-m --mouse Enable the use of the mouse
Is copy/paste still possible with mouse ...
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Arch linux + I3 + URXVT: ROFI opens nano editor in bash instead of URXVT
The bash script that uses ROFI is:
xdg-open "$(locate home | rofi threads 0 -dmenu -i -p "locate:")"
This works fine from URXVT (command line), but when I bind this to a key and open ROFI, Every ...
