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#7 Quick Editing with GNU Nano

GNU Nano is one of my favorite "little" text editors. While Nano is small, it does support some fairly advanced features like syntax highlighting, killing and yanking (copy and pasting), buffer support (think tabs), spell checking, and others.

In this episode we'll configure a good initial Nano setup, show how to navigate around Nano, and go over how to use some of the advanced - not enabled by default - features.

Keep in mind, when I mention the key "meta" this is also known as the "option" key in the Apple world and "ALT" in the Windows world. That is the key I am referring to.

As I recommend in in the screencast, swapping your CAPS and CTRL keys will help quite a bit while using GNU Nano. Consult episode 2 to find out how.

Macroron provided updated instructions to get spell checking working on Fedora 11

Uploaded on Oct 16, 2009 | 7:36 | Tags: Editors Emacs GNU Nano Text Editors Vi

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# ~/.nanorc
# use auto indentation
set autoindent

# use multiple buffers
set multibuffer

# set tab size
set tabsize 4

# include ruby syntax highlighting
include /usr/share/nano/ruby.nanorc

# include html syntax highlighting
include /usr/share/nano/html.nanorc

# include nanorc sytax highlighting
include /usr/share/nano/nanorc.nanorc

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