Content-type: text/html <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Manpage of NANO</TITLE> </HEAD><BODY> <H1>NANO</H1> Section: User Commands (1)<BR>Updated: July 28, 2000<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A> <A HREF="http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html">Return to Main Contents</A><HR> <A NAME="lbAB"> </A> <H2>NAME</H2> nano - Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico Clone <A NAME="lbAC"> </A> <H2>SYNOPSIS</H2> <B>nano</B> [options] [+LINE]<I> file</I> <BR> <A NAME="lbAD"> </A> <H2>DESCRIPTION</H2> This manual page documents briefly the <B>nano</B> command. <P> <B>nano</B> 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</B> also implements some missing (or disabled by default) features in Pico, such as "search and replace" and "goto line number". <A NAME="lbAE"> </A> <H2>OPTIONS</H2> <DL COMPACT> <DT><B>-T (--tabsize)</B> <DD> Set the size (width) of a tab. <DT><B>-R (--regexp)</B> <DD> Enable regular expression matching for search strings, as well as \n subexpression replacement for replace strings, if available. <DT><B>-V (--version)</B> <DD> Show the current version number and author. <DT><B>-h (--help)</B> <DD> Display a summary of commandline options. <DT><B>-c (--const)</B> <DD> Constantly show the cursor position. <DT><B>-k (--cut)</B> <DD> Enable cut from cursor to end of line with ^K. <DT><B>-i (--autoindent)</B> <DD> Indent new lines to the previous line's indentation. Useful when editing source code. <DT><B>-l (--nofollow)</B> <DD> 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? <DT><B>-m (--mouse)</B> <DD> Enable mouse support (if available for your system). <DT><B>-p (--pico)</B> <DD> Emulate Pico as closely as possible. <DT><B>-s (--speller)</B> <DD> Enable alternative spell checker command. <DT><B>-t (--tempfile)</B> <DD> Always save changed buffer without prompting. Same as Pico -t option. <DT><B>-v (--view)</B> <DD> View file (read only) mode. <DT><B>-w (--nowrap)</B> <DD> Disable wrapping of long lines. <DT><B>-x (--nohelp)</B> <DD> Disable help screen at bottom of editor. <DT><B>-z (--suspend)</B> <DD> Enable suspend ability. <DT><B>+LINE</B> <DD> Places cursor at LINE on startup. </DL> <A NAME="lbAF"> </A> <H2>BUGS</H2> Please send any comments or bug reports to <B><A HREF="mailto:nano@nano-editor.org">nano@nano-editor.org</A>.</B> The nano mailing list is available from <B><A HREF="mailto:nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</A>.</B> To subscribe, email to <A HREF="mailto:nano-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net">nano-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net</A> with a subject of "subscribe". <A NAME="lbAG"> </A> <H2>HOMEPAGE</H2> <A HREF="http://www.nano-editor.org">http://www.nano-editor.org</A> <A NAME="lbAH"> </A> <H2>AUTHOR</H2> Chris Allegretta <<A HREF="mailto:chrisa@asty.org">chrisa@asty.org</A>>, et al. This manual page was originally written by Jordi Mallach <<A HREF="mailto:jordi@sindominio.net">jordi@sindominio.net</A>>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). <P> <HR> <A NAME="index"> </A><H2>Index</H2> <DL> <DT><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD> <DT><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD> <DT><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD> <DT><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A><DD> <DT><A HREF="#lbAF">BUGS</A><DD> <DT><A HREF="#lbAG">HOMEPAGE</A><DD> <DT><A HREF="#lbAH">AUTHOR</A><DD> </DL> <HR> This document was created by <A HREF="http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html">man2html</A>, using the manual pages.<BR> Time: 21:33:46 GMT, November 19, 2000 </BODY> </HTML>