GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, goto line number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion. The original goal for nano was a complete bug-for-bug compatible emulation of Pico, but nano's main goal is to be as compatible as possible while offering a superset of Pico's functionality.
About nano8.5
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8.5
- https://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v8/nano-8.5.tar.gz
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8.5
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Comments
2 commentsArrow keys work!
The arrow keys work just fine. If they don't you have definitely found a bug, try submitting as report to nano@nano-editor.org and it can be fixed!
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Not bad, they failed in one basic aspect, you can no longer navigate through the document using your arrow keys like you can in pico, which I think defeats the purpose of nano.