nano.1

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.TH NANO 1 "July 28, 2000"
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.SH NAME
nano \- Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico Clone
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B nano
.RI [options]\ [+LINE] " file"
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B nano
command.
.PP
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\fBnano\fP was originally known as TIP (TIP Isn't Pico). It is a small,
free and friendly editor which aims to replace Pico, the default editor
included in the non-free Pine package. Rather than just copying Pico's
look and feel, 
.B nano
also implements some missing (or disabled by
default) features in Pico, such as "search and replace" and "goto line
number".
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-T (\-\-tabsize)
Set the size (width) of a tab.
.TP
.B \-R (\-\-regexp)
Enable regular expression matching for search strings, as well as
\\n subexpression replacement for replace strings, if available.
.TP
.B \-V (\-\-version)
Show the current version number and author.
.TP
.B \-h (\-\-help)
Display a summary of commandline options.
.TP
.B \-c (\-\-const)
Constantly show the cursor position.
.TP
.B \-k (\-\-cut)
Enable cut from cursor to end of line with ^K.
.TP
.B \-i (\-\-autoindent)
Indent new lines to the previous line's indentation. Useful when editing
source code.
.TP
.B \-l (\-\-nofollow)
If the file being edited is a symbolic link, replace the link with a 
a new file, do not follow it.  Good for editing files in /tmp perhaps?
.TP
.B \-m (\-\-mouse)
Enable mouse support (if available for your system).
.TP
.B \-p (\-\-pico)
Emulate Pico as closely as possible.
.TP
.B \-s (\-\-speller)
Enable alternative spell checker command.
.TP
.B \-t (\-\-tempfile)
Always save changed buffer without prompting. Same as Pico -t option.
.TP
.B \-v (\-\-view)
View file (read only) mode.
.TP
.B \-w (\-\-nowrap)
Disable wrapping of long lines.
.TP
.B \-x (\-\-nohelp)
Disable help screen at bottom of editor.
.TP
.B \-z (\-\-suspend)
Enable suspend ability.
.TP
.B \+LINE
Places cursor at LINE on startup.
.SH BUGS
Please send any comments or bug reports to
.B nano@nano-editor.org.
The nano mailing list is available from
.B nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
To subscribe, email to nano-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net with a
subject of "subscribe".
.SH HOMEPAGE
http://www.nano-editor.org
.SH AUTHOR
Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>, et al.  This manual page was
originally written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net>, for the Debian
GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).