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.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*-
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.\" nano.1 is copyright 1999-2000 by
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.\" Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
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.\"
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.\" This is free documentation, see the latest version of the GNU General
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.\" Public License for copying conditions. There is NO warranty.
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.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
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.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
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.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
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.TH NANO 1 "April 30, 2001"
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.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
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.\"
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.SH NAME
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nano \- Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico Clone
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B nano
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.RI [options]\ [+LINE] " file"
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.br
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This manual page documents briefly the
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.B nano
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command.
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.PP
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.\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and
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.\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invoke bold face and italics,
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.\" respectively.
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\fBnano\fP is a small, free and friendly editor which aims to replace
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Pico, the default editor included in the non-free Pine package. Rather
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than just copying Pico's look and feel,
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.B nano
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also implements some missing (or disabled by default) features in Pico,
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such as "search and replace" and "goto line number".
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.B \-T (\-\-tabsize)
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Set the size (width) of a tab.
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.TP
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.B \-R (\-\-regexp)
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Enable regular expression matching for search strings, as well as
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\\n subexpression replacement for replace strings, if available.
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.TP
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.B \-V (\-\-version)
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Show the current version number and author.
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.TP
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.B \-h (\-\-help)
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Display a summary of command line options.
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.TP
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.B \-c (\-\-const)
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Constantly show the cursor position.
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.TP
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.B \-i (\-\-autoindent)
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Indent new lines to the previous line's indentation. Useful when editing
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source code.
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.TP
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.B \-k (\-\-cut)
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Enable cut from cursor to end of line with ^K.
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.TP
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.B \-l (\-\-nofollow)
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If the file being edited is a symbolic link, replace the link with a
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a new file, do not follow it. Good for editing files in /tmp, perhaps?
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.TP
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.B \-m (\-\-mouse)
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Enable mouse support (if available for your system).
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.TP
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.B \-p (\-\-pico)
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Emulate Pico as closely as possible. This affects both the "shortcut list"
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at the bottom of the screen, as well as the display and entry of previous
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search and replace strings.
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.TP
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.B \-r (\-\-fill)
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Wrap lines at column #cols. By default this is the width of the screen,
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less eight.
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.TP
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.B \-s (\-\-speller)
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Enable alternative spell checker command.
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.TP
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.B \-t (\-\-tempfile)
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Always save changed buffer without prompting. Same as Pico -t option.
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.TP
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.B \-v (\-\-view)
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View file (read only) mode.
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.TP
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.B \-w (\-\-nowrap)
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Disable wrapping of long lines.
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.TP
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.B \-x (\-\-nohelp)
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Disable help screen at bottom of editor.
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.TP
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.B \-z (\-\-suspend)
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Enable suspend ability.
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.TP
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.B \-b, \-e, \-f
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Ignored, for compatibility with Pico.
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.TP
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.B \+LINE
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Places cursor at LINE on startup.
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.SH NOTES
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Nano will try to dump the buffer into an emergency file in some cases.
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Mainly, this will happen if Nano receives a SIGHUP or runs out of
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memory, when it will write the buffer into a file named "nano.save" if the
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buffer didn't have a name already, or will add a ".save" suffix to the
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current filename. Nano will \fBnot\fP write this file if a previous one
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exists in the current directory.
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.SH BUGS
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Please send any comments or bug reports to
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.br
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.B nano@nano-editor.org.
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.br
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The nano mailing list is available from
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.br
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.B nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
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To subscribe, email to nano-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net with a
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subject of "subscribe".
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.SH HOMEPAGE
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http://www.nano-editor.org
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.SH AUTHOR
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Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>, et al (see AUTHORS for details).
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This manual page was originally written by Jordi Mallach
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<jordi@sindominio.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be
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used by others).
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