GNU nano 6.0 Text Editor Is Out with New Color Names, etc.

GNU nano 6.0 Text Editor Is Out with New Color Names, etc.

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Marius Nestor
Dec 15, 2021

GNU nano 6.0 is here to introduce various new features and improvements to the popular command-line text editor, including a new option for hiding the title bar, status bar, and help lines.

This release also introduces 14 new color names, including crimson, beet, brick, brown, ocher, plum, rosy, sage, sand, sea, sky, slate, tawny, and teal, as well as the ability to specify colors as three-digit hexadecimal numbers in the rgb format. Learn more about the new release here.

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Marius Nestor

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