GNU nano a small and friendly text editor version 2.8.7 Chris Allegretta This manual documents the GNU nano editor. This manual is part of the GNU nano distribution. Copyright c 1999-2009, 2014-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This document is dual-licensed. You may distribute and/or modify it under the terms of either of the following licenses: * The GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foun- dation, version 3 or (at your option) any later version. You should have re- ceived a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. * The GNU Free Documentation License, as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 1.2 or (at your option) any later version, with no Invari- ant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. You should have received a copy of the GNU Free Documentation License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. You may contact the author by e-mail:
[email protected] 1 1 Introduction GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features, such as an interactive search-and-replace, undo/redo, syntax coloring, smooth scrolling, auto-indentation, go-to-line- and-column-number, feature toggles, file locking, backup files, and interna- tionalization support. The original goal for nano was to be a complete bug-for-bug emulation of Pico. But currently the goal is to be as compatible as possible while offering a superset of Pico's functionality.