nano: Introduction
1 Introduction
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GNU ‘nano’ is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text
editing, ‘nano’ offers many extra features, such as an interactive
search-and-replace, undo/redo, syntax coloring, smooth scrolling,
auto-indentation, go-to-line-and-column-number, feature toggles, file
locking, backup files, and internationalization support.
The original goal for ‘nano’ was to be a complete bug-for-bug
emulation of Pico. But currently the goal is to be as compatible as
possible while offering a superset of Pico’s functionality. Pico
Compatibility for more details on how ‘nano’ and Pico differ.
Please report bugs via <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano>.