Nano
GNU nano
https://www.nano-editor.org/
Small, user-friendly console text editor.
Nano is a small and simple text editor for use in a terminal. Besides basic editing, it supports: undo/redo, syntax highlighting, spell checking, justifying, auto-indentation, bracket matching, interactive search-and-replace (with regular expressions), and the editing of multiple files.
Documentation
https://www.nano-editor.org/docs.phpSelection from the FSF shop
Free as in Freedom 2.0, by Richard Stallman
Introduction to the Command Line
Helping the GNU Project and the Free Software Movement
If you have corrections to this entry or questions about it, please contact: mailto:maintainers@gnu.org
This is a GNU package:nano
Download
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nano/nano-5.4.tar.xz
version 5.4
(stable)
released on 2 December 2020
OpenPGP signature URL: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nano/nano-5.4.tar.xz.sig
User level
Beginner
Donate link
https://my.fsf.org/donate/Accepts cryptocurrency donations.
Paid support
https://www.fsf.org/resources/service/VCS Checkout
git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/nano.gitCategories
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Licensing
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License
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5 August 2020
Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
| Benno Schulenberg | Maintainer |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| General | https://translationproject.org/domain/nano.html | |
| Wikidata | General | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q306101 |
| Help-nano Info Page | Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-nano/ |
| Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss/ | |
| Savannah | Developer | https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/nano/ |
| Nano-devel Info Page | Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nano-devel/ |
| General | https://savannah.gnu.org/people/ | |
| Info-nano Info Page | Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-nano/ |
| Savannah | VCS Repository Webview | https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/ |
| Archive | Download | https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/nano/ |
| Savannah | Bug Tracking | https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano |
| Archive | Download | https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nano/ |
| Debian (Ref) | Developer | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nano |
Software prerequisites
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Weak prerequisite | gettext |
| Required to build | ncurses or another Curses library |
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