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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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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nano: how to search text with tab
How can I search text with nano and in OSX that contains a tab?
I use ctr+w do start the search and then type the text I want. I tried "\t" but it doesn't work.
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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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Bracket matching highlighting in Nano
In nano, we can enable bracket matching via these lines in ~/.nanorc:
set brackets ""')>]}"
set matchbrackets "(<[{)>]}"
Once this put in the config, pressing Alt] while on a bracket will ...
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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
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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 "$(locate home | rofi threads 0 -dmenu -i -p "locate:")"
This works fine from URXVT (command line), but when I bind this to a key and open ROFI, Every ...
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Nano through Sudoedit = No colors
Here are my personal aliases for editing root owned files:
# CLI superuser nano; compiled; version 2.8.0
function sunano {
export SUDO_EDITOR='/usr/local/bin/nano'
sudoedit "$@"
}
# GUI ...
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Compiling Nano with UTF-8 support on one computer failed
I want to compile Nano from source for my friend.
I have successfully compiled it on all of my computers and he's having Linux Mint 18.1 too.
I don't know why; or better said I don't know what is ...
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Compiled GNU/Nano: How to add to system editors list
I have compiled GNU/Nano editor myself and I wish to add it to the system editors list.
which nano
Tells me the following location:
/usr/local/bin/nano
So it should be something like:
sudo update-...
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Trouble installing nano
I have a docker container running debian linux (it's using the postgres image) that I'd like to install nano on so I can edit files. However, when I try
# apt-get install nano
the output I get is
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want to create a cron job to play video file? [duplicate]
But its showing -->
no crontab for vishal - using an empty one
crontab: installing new crontab
any suggestions how to workout ?
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How to schedule a cron job to run a video fill every 5 minute?
I need to play a video file on vlc every 5 minutes daily.
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OpenWrt Linino - Enable syntax highlighting in nano
I'm running Linino on my Arduino Yun and I'm trying to enable Python syntax highlighting when using nano. I've looked under /usr/share but there's no nano folder there.
Ctrl+G from inside nano just ...
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How to input text into a new text file using nano from command line?
How to input text into a new text file using nano from command line?
I would like the same as with the following, but using nano:
echo 'Hello, world.' >foo.txt
Result:
nano is not capable of ...
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Do I have kernel support for fbtft?
When I trying this command modinfo fbtft I get this result:
modinfo: ERROR: Module fbtft not found.
But when I do checking, I have fbtft file in this location :
/lib/modules/3.18.1+/kernel/drivers/...
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Compiling Nano editor with options
I am trying to compile my favorite nano command-line text editor with some of the options.
Actually, most of the options in order to enable all features.
First, I go to Downloads directory and ...
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Make nano hard-wrap lines at 80 characters
I saw Long line wrapping in Nano and while the manpage says -
set fill number - Hard-wrap lines at column number number. If
number is 0 or less, the maximum line length will be the screen ...
