Nano has already supplanted the great EMacs and Vim as the most popular text editor of all linux distros, for though it has many omissions in functionality it scores over the older, more complete programs in two important respects. First, it is slightly simpler; and secondly it has the text “^ Exit” inscribed in highlighted text on its footer

EDIT : This sees to be going over some people’s heads. It’s a hitchiker’s guide to the galaxy reference.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions . . . it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

    • esc@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      alias nano='nano -A -D -E -F -T 4 -Z -g -i -l -m -q -t -% -_' and you need to enable syntax highlighting in nanorc (not all distros enable it by default) include /usr/share/nano/*.nanorc also there are additional/improved rules for highlighting here https://github.com/galenguyer/nano-syntax-highlighting and you can rebind every key, but it seems that it doesn’t support ‘chaining’ of keys nor multiple modifier keys at the same time.

      • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞English
        1·
        6 hours ago

        Nice, thanks!

        For anyone wondering about the options: https://i.imgur.com/hAjTxJO.png

        Also, apparently you can create ~/.nanorc and put the following in for those (instead of an alias):

        set smarthome
        set boldtext
        set tabstospaces
        set multibuffer
        set tabsize 4
        set zap
        set showcursor
        set autoindent
        set linenumbers
        set mouse
        set indicator
        set saveonexit
        set stateflags
        set minibar

        I’ll play around with those and the syntax stuff. I definitely personally do not want the saveonexit behaviour, but you’ve started me on the path of looking at the other options, and that right there shows me it’s worth my time to look, so thank you :)