The nano text editor
I use nano in preference to
vim. I’ve used nano
for casual file editing for
years but never learned it fully. Since I migrated my blog to Nikola
I’m using nano
more frequently as I typically write my blog posts on a remote
shell, so I thought I’d learn nano
a little more.
Keybindings
I used the sites below to discover some of the essential keyboard shortcuts. I should have done this long ago, it didn’t take long.
- http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/reu/nano.html
- http://www.tuxradar.com/content/text-editing-nano-made-easy
- http://www.cheatography.com/davechild/content/nano-shortcuts/
Syntax Highlighting
However, the killer feature for nano
is the Syntax Highlighting provided by
Craig Barnes. He uses mixins to ensure a
consistent colour theme for all the language highlighters. I don’t use his
custom key bindings however, it gets confusing when connecting to different
hosts taht have a default nano
configuration.
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