nano

Command-line text editor. An enhanced Pico clone. More information: https://nano-editor.org.

• Start the editor:

nano

• Start the editor without using configuration files:

nano --ignorercfiles

• Open specific files, moving to the next file when closing the previous one:

nano path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

• Open a file and position the cursor at a specific line and column:

nano +line,column path/to/file

• Open a file and enable soft wrapping:

nano --softwrap path/to/file

• Open a file and indent new lines to the previous line’s indentation:

nano --autoindent path/to/file

• Open a file and create a backup file (path/to/file~) on save:

nano --backup path/to/file