Selecting lines in nano can be achieved using Esc+A. With multiple lines selected, how do I then indent all those lines at once?

How can you sent selected text to a script? I want to select text with shift+arrows, press e.g. ctrl+c and then the selected text should be sent to my script either as a parameter or as stdin. Been playing with the function {execute} in the nanorc file...I know it's not even close to the solution, I might have to use a complete different function and syntax....but which?

bind ^c "{execute}|tocb" main

*(my script is called tocb)*

I have a problem with the Nano editor. If it ever exits unexpectedly, it leaves behind .save files, which are just versions of the edits I was making. Is there a way to disable this behaviour?

When double clicking a file i would like it to open in ghostty terminal emulator with nano i tried putting

EDITOR='nano -x'

and

VISUAL='nano -x'

in the .bashrc file, but does nothing when ghostty is my default terminal. is there a way to achieve that?

I would like nano to soft-wrap at 80 characters. That is, as I keep typing, the text should flow to the next line beyond 80 characters, without nano insert a \n newline at 80 characters. set softwrap set tabsize 4 set tabstospaces set fill 72 However, this inserts a newline after each line, when tested with cat. How do I softwrap and fill simultaneously?

I have vim as default editor on my Mac and every time I run commands on Mac terminal, it automatically opens "vim". How can I set up "nano" instead and make sure the terminal will open "nano" every time is needed?

This might be a very silly question, but I really tried and didn't figure it out myself. GNU nano 8.4. When I start it, there is a welcome message: > Welcome to nano. For basic help, type Ctrl+G. How to hide it permanently? I tried to start nano using nano -x, but this hides the whole toolbar, whereas I want to hide the welcome message only.

I use

in

, because I find it more comfortable. However, every once in a while, I'm not paying enough attention, and I'll nuke part of a wrapped line, since it doesn't have any indentation. Is it possible to have a

line begin at the same indentation as the line started? I dug though the manual, I already use

, but that's not relevant to wrapping. My search skills are failing me :) Or, it can't work that way.

im using an arch linux variant with xfce, opening up a terminal shell and running **sudo nano .bashrc** I can see the file is colorized despite there being no headers referencing a schema. Looking inside dir ***/usr/share/nano-syntax-highlighting/*** shows no file for bashrc configs I would like to use the same colors that are used for**.bashrc** for my **.customrc** file. How and where can I set this?

Anytime I exit the nano editor, I get an error like this: > Unable to create directory /home/oloco/.config/local/share/nano/: No > such file or directory It is required for saving/loading search > history or cursor positions Is there a way in order to configure the path so that I dont have to save it in that place? Thanks in advance!

No matter what I try with cut, awk, sed, or grep, it orders by ID first only then last name then first name when it should go in order of last name so it instead should look like f132b02: Kiara Acevedo f132a01: Caleb Barn but instead it orders it by ID and not alphabetical last name and output looks like this f132a01: Barn, Caleb f132b02: Acevedo, Kiara the information from the folder I'm retrieving the information is extracted from "~/Homework4/etc/passwd" and is trying to order the IDs below f132a01:Barn Caleb f132a02:Casey Nathan f132a03:Sanchez Ana f132a04:Thomas Jeff f132a05:Cavhill Jared f132b01:Johnson Andrew f132b02:Acevedo Kiara f132b03:Felaccio Steven f132b05:Blotner Sam f132b06:Pereira Brian The code I've been trying is down below: INPUT: cut -d: -f1,5 /etc/passwd | grep f132 | \ username, first name, and last name sed -E 's/(.*), (.*) (.*)/\1 \2 \3/' | \ sort -k3 echo count=$(cut -d: -f1,5 /etc/passwd | grep f132 | wc -l) echo "Number of students in the class: $count" OUTPUT: f132a01:Barn Caleb f132a02:Casey Nathan f132a03:Sanchez Ana f132a04:Thomas Jeff f132a05:Cavhill Jared f132b01:Johnson Andrew f132b02:Acevedo Kiara f132b03:Felaccio Steven f132b05:Blotner Sam f132b06:Pereira Brian

I have a program A that pipes its input to nano this way:

| nano -

. I want to make edits with nano and pipe it again to another program B, without having nano to write anything on the disk (The processed data is sensitive, and I want it to be only written as encrypted or processed within RAM; program B is actually an encryption program). In order to achieve my goal, I know of solutions requiring the creation of a *tmpfs* on the RAM, this I would like to avoid. Do you have any suggestions?

Which format (Mac or DOS) should I use on Linux PCs/Clusters? [I know the difference](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28617814/difference-between-dos-format-and-mac-format) : - DOS format uses "carriage return" (CR or \r) then "line feed" (LF or \n). - Mac format uses "carriage return" (CR or \r) - Unix uses "line feed" (LF or \n) I also know [how to select the option](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13368223/nano-2-0-6-saving-a-file-in-mac-format) : - AltM for Mac format - AltD for DOS format But there is no UNIX format. Then save the file with Enter.

I can able to select multiple lines using Esc+A. After this, what shortcut(s) should I use to comment/uncomment the selected lines?

I enjoy using nano as a respite from my usual GTK-based text editor. I like the simplicity of the interface, and using CTRL-K is the fastest way I know of to edit down long textfiles. However, I have one major gripe: whenever I justify text using CTRL-J, the editor prints the smug little message Can now UnJustify! -- yet I have not been able to find a way to unjustify text. Pressing M-U (which a Google search could reveal, M-U not being mentioned at all in the program's help files) simply seems to cause a glitch. The keyboard becomes unresponsive. Am I missing something?

While trying to save a file out of Nano the other day, I got an error message saying "XOFF ignored, mumble mumble". I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. Any insights?

I enabled syntax highlight in nano (PHP), but not happy with the default, I would like for example to have the comments displayed in very light grey. However, the documentation I found seems to suggest I can only write colors like "yellow", "red" etc. Is there a way to specify a color by its hex/RGB code? Is there a limitation in the number of colors bash/nano and so on can display? Obviously I am not very experienced with the Linux world. Same question for VIM, I might switch to VIM if that is not possible.

In nano v8.0 there's an option to send selection to X clipboard in the nanorc: "{execute}|xsel -ib{enter}{undo}" which does perfectly. I tried using xclip utility instead: "{execute}|xclip -sel c{enter}{undo}" The result was an infinite execution [ Executing... ], insensitive to interaction until hit ^C. After the cancelling it appeared done the copying, no errors, but what's with the stuckage? Why does it happen and is there a fix? I'm on Kubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (Focal Fossa).

I love the nano feature that enables you to open multiple files at once and the fact that switching between them is very easy:

nano file1 file2 etc.

However, when I try to open a new file while working on one with ^R, it just inserts the whole fine within the file I was working on after I enter it. What I want to know is how to open a separate tab with a different file. M-F just gives me an error that says "[No formatter is defined for this type of file]".

The key combination Alt + 6 for copy in nano does not work in tilix **Does anyone know how to fix this?** I had a look through all the key commands, but did not find any entry for Alt + 6 being already in use.