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GNU nano

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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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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application types

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Haiku
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (9)
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7comments

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

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

 Tags

  • syntax-coloring

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Top Positive Comment
Eden
May 19, 2019
3

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

Top Negative Comment
ab1
Jan 3, 2021
-3

Terrible as editor.

tuva-hayabi
Nov 19, 2021
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
Oct 31, 2018
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
Jun 17, 2018
1

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

velnemed
Oct 22, 2017
0

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

felipemaia
Sep 22, 2015
0

Apparently this project was abandoned. No updates since 2009.

fahrenheit
Sep 25, 2015

It's not discontinued, latest version 2.4.2, was in fact released on the 5th of July, 2015. The page is misleading.

Check FTP site or the SVN for more information.

felipemaia
Sep 25, 2015

True! The latest version dates 2015. The project is on! The problem is that both web sites (http://www.nano-editor.org/ and http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/nano) are out-of-date, misleading the reader. You need to look deeper, like the FTP download site, to find out that the software was recently updated. I would suggest to the Nono's developers team to update the pages. Like me, many others would discard it's use due to this mistake. Thanks for the correction!

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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GNU nano information

  • Developed by

    Unknown
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3
  • Alternatives

    145 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about GNU nano, and it has gotten 287 likes

GNU nano was added to AlternativeTo by nitrofurano01 on Dec 9, 2010 and this page was last updated Nov 18, 2020. GNU nano is sometimes referred to as Nano.