A Beginner's Guide on How to Use Nano Text Editor in Linux | Linux Today

A Beginner’s Guide on How to Use Nano Text Editor in Linux

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Oct 5, 2018

Nano is a command line text editor, that comes preinstalled in almost every Linux distribution. It is often preferred by new users because of its simplicity, compared to other command line text editors such as vi/vim and emacs. It has plenty of useful features such as syntax coloring, line numbering, easy search and many others.

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