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GNU Nano Gets New Stable Release

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

jones_supa writes: GNU Nano 2.4.0 has been released as the first stable update to this UNIX command line text editor in a number of years. The release codenamed "Lizf" brings a wide variety of changes: full undo system, Vim-compatible file locking, linter support, formatter support, flexible syntax highlighting, and random bugfixes.

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  1. Re:Nano is not a command line editor by smittyoneeach · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, it's an editor invoked at the command line in a terminal, i.e. not a graphical mode editor.

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  2. Re:More help needed by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Informative

    I would simply like if it explained how to cut and paste multiple lines of text at the same time.

    Use Alt+a to set a mark for the start of highlighting, then move your cursor to the desired end of the highlighted region. Now if you copy or cut, it'll operate on the highlighted region.

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  3. Re:More help needed by dargaud · · Score: 3, Informative

    Go on the first line, press Ctrl-K (yes the line disappears because it's actually a cut), press Ctrl-K again on all the next lines you want to copy. When done press Ctrl-U to paste back your text. Move to when you want to paste, press Ctrl-U again. Done.

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