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GNU nano

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.

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  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Terminal-based
  3.  Search and Replace
  4.  Automatic Indentation
  5.  Works Offline
  6.  No Tracking

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Top Positive Comment
Eden
3

Small, simple, text-based, utf8 capable. It just keeps working.

Top Negative Comment
ab1
-4

Terrible as editor.

idkwhatname
0

Not really for the advanced users, but it's very solid for everyone else

tuva-hayabi
0

I find Nano much easier than Vim or Emacs, but I use it only if there is no graphical user interface available. Normally, I prefer Geany as an editor with a GUI.

Cora
0

Nano is my go to editor for anything in the command line, as well as for programming. Its integration, keyboard commands, interface and speed are all perfect. The fact that it has syntax highlighting is also a super useful feature!

SecurityChecker
1

Nano is very useful for simple text editing in the command line of Linux

velnemed
0

How to not learn Vim and still get a useful text editor

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What is GNU nano?

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.

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Our users have written 8 comments and reviews about GNU nano, and it has gotten 299 likes

GNU nano was added to AlternativeTo by nitrofurano01 on and this page was last updated . GNU nano is sometimes referred to as Nano.