nano is a versatile console text editor with numerous features including text colouring, automated indentation and easy to use search and replace. It provides a well chosen balance between functionality and required disk space.
This OPT is intended as a powerful alternative for vi or e3. Since Fli4L 3.5 is being planned to contain joe from the BusyBox as standard editor, OPT_nano may become obsolete and therefore unmaintained past the launch of the first stable release Fli4L 3.6.
Note: Due to insufficient ressources on Fli4L, the support for the UTF-8 format has been disabled in nano.
| Variable | Description | Valid | Example |
| OPT_NANO | Enable OPT_nano | 'yes' or 'no' | 'yes' |
| NANO_FEATURES |
Determines the available features and required disk space for nano. Setting 'tiny' disables the online help and some other features. |
'full' or 'tiny' |
'full' |
| NANO_NANORC_N | Number of nano text colouring configurations to use. | Any number | '5' |
| NANO_NANORC_% | Name of nano text colouring file to use. | 'php', 'c', 'man', 'patch', 'nanorc', 'html', 'mutt', 'sh', 'python', 'pov', 'gentoo', 'groff', 'asm', 'ocaml', 'awk', 'ruby', 'xml', 'tex', 'java', 'tcl', 'fortran', 'perl', 'objc', 'debian', 'makefile' or 'css' | 'html' |
nano can be configured to your needs. Set any of the following variables, if you need to, whereas all of them are optional.
| Variable | Description | Valid | Default |
| NANO_AUTOINDENT | Use auto-indentation. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_BACKUP | Create backup files in filename~. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_BACKUPDIR | Set the directory where nano puts unique backup files if file backups are enabled. | Any absolute path | |
| NANO_BACKWARDS | Do backwards searches by default. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_BOLDTEXT | Use bold text instead of reverse video text. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_BRACKETS | Set the characters treated as closing brackets when justifying paragraphs. They cannot contain blank characters. Only closing punctuation, optionally followed by closing brackets, can end sentences. | Any characters | '"’)>]}' |
| NANO_CASESENSITIVE | Do case sensitive searches by default. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_CONST | Constantly display the cursor position in the status bar. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_CUT | Use cut to end of line by default. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_FILL | Wrap lines at column number n. If n is 0 or less, the maximum line length will be the screen width less n columns. | Any positive integer | '-8' |
| NANO_HISTORYLOG | Enable ~/.nano_history for saving and reading search/replace strings. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_MATCHBRACKETS | Set the opening and closing brackets that can be found by bracket searches. They cannot contain blank characters. The former set must come before the latter set, and both must be in the same order. | Any characters | '(<[{)>]}' |
| NANO_MORESPACE | Use the blank line below the titlebar as extra editing space. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_MOUSE | Enable mouse support, if available for your system. When enabled, mouse clicks can be used to place the cursor, set the mark (with a double click), and execute shortcuts. The mouse will work in the X Window System, and on the console when gpm (NOT included in OPT_nano) is running. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_MULTIBUFFER | Allow inserting files into their own buffers. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_NOCONVERT | Don’t convert files from DOS/Mac format. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_NOFOLLOW | Don’t follow symlinks when writing files. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_NOHELP | Don’t display the help lists at the bottom of the screen. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_NONEWLINES | Don’t add newlines to the ends of files. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_NOWRAP | Don’t wrap text at all. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_OPERATINGDIR | nano will only read and write files inside directory and its subdirectories. Also, the current directory is changed to here, so files are inserted from this directory. | Any absolute path | '' (don't use feature) |
| NANO_PRESERVE | Preserve the XON and XOFF keys (^Q and ^S). | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_PUNCT | Set the characters treated as closing punctuation when justifying paragraphs. They cannot contain blank characters. Only closing punctuation, optionally followed by closing brackets, can end sentences. | Any characters | '!.?' |
| NANO_QUICKBLANK | Do quick statusbar blanking. Statusbar messages will disappear after 1 keystroke instead of 25. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_QUOTESTR | The email-quote string, used to justify email-quoted paragraphs. | Any characters | '>' |
| NANO_REBINDDELETE | Interpret the Delete key differently so that both Backspace and Delete work properly. You should only need to use this option if Backspace acts like Delete on your system. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_REBINDKEYPAD | Interpret the numeric keypad keys so that they all work properly. You should only need to use this option if they don’t, as mouse support won’t work properly with this option enabled. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_REGEXP | Do extended regular expression searches by default. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_SMARTHOME | Make the Home key smarter. When Home is pressed anywhere but at the very beginning of non-whitespace characters on a line, the cursor will jump to that beginning (either forwards or backwards). If the cursor is already at that position, it will jump to the true beginning of the line. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_SMOOTH | Use smooth scrolling by default. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_SOFTWRAP | Use soft wrapping by default. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_SPELLER | Use spelling checker spellprog instead of the built-in one, which calls spell. | Any absolute path | '' |
| NANO_SUSPEND | Allow nano to be suspended. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_SUSPENDABLE | If nano is allowed to be suspended, allow the suspend key (usually ^Z) to actually suspend it. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_TABSIZE | Use a tab size of n columns. The value of n must be greater than 0. | Any positive integer | '8' |
| NANO_TABSTOSPACES | Convert typed tabs to spaces. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_TEMPFILE | Save automatically on exit, don’t prompt. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_UNDO | 'yes' or 'no' | ||
| NANO_VIEW | Disallow file modification. | 'yes' or 'no' | |
| NANO_WHITESPACE | Set the two characters used to display the first characters of tabs and spaces. They must be single-column characters. | Any characters | |
| NANO_WORDBOUNDS | Detect word boundaries more accurately by treating punctuation characters as parts of words. | 'yes' or 'no' |
Please, open the external file nano-man-page.pdf.
This package is licensed under Free Software Foundation, Inc., General Public License Version 2, June 1991.
copyright © 2010 Tiger
nano is developed by the Nano Development Team. Visit the nano website at http://www.nano-editor.org/.