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nano: Introduction

 
 1 Introduction
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 GNU ‘nano’ is a small and friendly text editor.  Besides basic text
 editing, ‘nano’ offers features like undo/redo, syntax coloring,
 interactive search-and-replace, auto-indentation, line numbers, word
 completion, file locking, backup files, and internationalization
 support.
 
    The original goal for ‘nano’ was to be a complete bug-for-bug
 emulation of Pico.  But currently the goal is to be as compatible as is
 reasonable while offering a superset of Pico’s functionality.  ⇒
 Pico Compatibility for more details on how ‘nano’ and Pico differ.
 
    Starting with version 4.0, ‘nano’ no longer hard-wraps an overlong
 line by default.  It further uses linewise scrolling by default, and by
 default includes the line below the title bar into the editing area.  If
 you want the old, Pico behavior back, you can use the following options:
 ‘--breaklonglines’, ‘--jumpyscrolling’, and ‘--emptyline’ (or ‘-bje’).
 
    Please report bugs via <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano>.
 
    For background information see <https://nano-editor.org/>.
 

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