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Nano editor shortcut keys

Nano editor in Linux is quite handy when working with text files in terminal window.

Here's some keystroke that is quite useful when using Nano or editing text file with Nano.

Ctrl + i  is like pressing the "Tab" key

Ctrl + y will go to top of the current displayed window or the top of the current nano screen

Ctrl + v will go to the end of the current displayed window or the end of the current nano screen

Ctrl + m will move current line below the current cursor position

Ctrl  + d will delete empty line
               or will delete tab spaces
               or will delete a single character if the line has text on it

Ctrl + k  will cut the current line or current line will be cut and copied to clipboard (like Ctrl + x in word document if the text is highlighted)

Ctrl + u  will paste the line that was cut or whatever is on the clipboard (like Ctrl /+ v in word document)

Ctrl  + o  is  equivalent to "save as" in a word document or notepad.  

Ctrl  + s  will save the current text file (same in word document will save the current document)

Ctrl + shift + _  (ctrl + shift + underscore key) will prompt for the number line, quite useful when debugging a bash script to go to the affected line by typing the line number (equivalent to ctrl + g in a word document)

Ctrl + c  will display the  current cursor position, the line number and the column position is displayed

Ctrl + home will move the cursor to the very beginning or top of the file
This can be achieved also by Ctrl + shift + _  (ctrl + shift + underscore key) and entering "1" to go to line 1

Other alternative if Ctrl + home doesn't work is:
Esc + \ it's escape key plus back slash.

Ctrl + end will move the cursor to the end of the file

Other alternative if Ctrl + end doesn't work is:
Esc + / it's escape key plus forward slash.


Ctrl + g for more shortcut keys this will open Nano help window. 


How to copy a string or line in Nano check out this link below:

How to display line number in Nano -  a work around:

Command: nano filename.txt ls -l 

It's ls -l , the list command plus the "-l" parameter.

Draw back, need to press Ctrl + x twice.

Here's the screenshot or the output of the command:



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