GNU nano

There are actually many additional fixes and new features with this release (including a --modernbindings option to turn all keystrokes into more modern standards: ^X->cut ^V->paste ^Q->quit). Check out the release details here: lists.gnu.org/archive/html/i…

Version 8.0 of GNU nano is a momentous release. As of this version, the default search keystroke is now ^F. Good old ^W it still works, but hopefully this helps all the sysadmins who administrate multitudes of Unix-like systems via various web apps. Congrats to Benno & team!

Very entertaining video from @thelinuxcast where a long-time vim user challenged to use nano for 30 days. If you haven't already tried @tilvids and a more decentralized video platform - check it out - tilvids.com/w/juQ2LNtpU77y… Also on regular old YT - youtube.com/watch?v=49Fsou…

A very happy (early) 25th birthday to one of the best command line tools, cURL! tech.slashdot.org/story/23/03/10…

@talhasteezee @chrisallegretta Hmm, do you mean in addition to F6 which is already an alternate shortcut for Whereis/Search? Not very familiar with the F13+ keys. Thank you for the feedback!

Friends, Romans, Nano users! Due to the number of folks who use nano in a browser nowadays, we are pondering adding a new search shortcut. ^W would continue to work, just this new keystroke would be added (and advertised as search on the help bar). Please vote and let us know.

@ctaetcsh @gumnos @nixcraft @ed1conf @Neovim @emacs @vimtips @vim_tricks Just use what works for you :) Grateful that there are so many great choices due to FOSS.

@gumnos @nixcraft @ed1conf @Neovim @emacs @gnunano @vimtips @vim_tricks Is it so bad that Nano is perfectly fine for editing config files and thats all i use it for?

What your coffee says about the average Linux user ... reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/c…

@CraftComputing nano still loves you, even if you don't love it.

Me: Produces 30 minute Linux tutorial Viewers: nano sucks, why arent you using vim?

I like that A/UX (circa 1992) now has a newer nano binary than MacOS 11 ships with. Who do we get in touch with at Apple to update that btw, it's a teeny bit out of date at this point!

@xaeth @krisnova Project founder @chrisallegretta has signed the rms-open-letter.github.io petition. Please do not assume all Free Software developers hold a monolithic view about the reinstatement.

@krisnova I was gonna suggest @gnunano but then the twitter handle reminded me it's gnu 🤦‍♂️

Just upgraded my @gnunano to #Nano 5.0 Got some errors, so I had to up my rc file as well... 🤞 » “lightblack”? Yes, it's color. 😏

Version 5 of @gnunano has just been released. I know that vim and emacs are the way to go to be cool: yet I don't want to be cool - I want to be effective. I love and use nano from the CLI. When nano is not enough, I switch to GUI and run @code lists.gnu.org/archive/html/i…

Actually Meta-N has only toggled this option since version 4.1 (~2019), but it is indeed super useful! There are now two line numbering options in nano, Meta-N to show line numbers alongside text, and Meta-C to show line/column/character number in the status bar.

I'd thought this was already the case. If not, good news for Benno and team!

Congrats on twenty years, @gnunano. You're almost half my age now.

Congrats GNU nano on turning 20 years old! I uploaded version .5 of what was then called 'tip' on November 19, 1999. Many thanks to everyone who's sent in bug reports, patches, and suggestions, and to the current development team who keeps it going today.

#txtlockdatabase @gnunano @defcon @MasteringVim #vim A new update at txtlock.co.uk . txtlock works now perfect with /bin/nano /usr/bin/vi => Version 0.82.10

GNU nano 4.0 "Thy Rope of Sands" was released. Changes in this new version of the text editor include overlong lines no longer hard-wrapped automatically, smooth scrolling now the default, newline characters no longer added at the end of buffer + more. lists.gnu.org/archive/html/i…

Always fun noticing nano used in brief moments of YouTube videos by people we follow. For example in the most recent 8-But Guy video on configuring Planet X3 in DosBox. youtube.com/watch?v=QUzVes…

I believe the next release of busybox will just be a series of symlinks to emacs. twitter.com/RichFelker/sta…