NANO(1) General Commands Manual NANO(1) nano - Nano Pico nano [] [[+[,]] ]... nano [] [[+[crCR]{/|?}] ]... 9.0 ( ) . --solo set solosidescroll nanorc . 9.0 M-< M-> `scrollleft` `scrollright`. 9.0 nanorc : bind M-< prevbuf main bind M-> nextbuf main 8.0 ^F ^B M-F M-B . 8.0 nanorc : bind ^F forward main bind ^B back main bind M-F formatter main bind M-B linter main nano . Pico Pico : / . (+) . . +/ +? . / c / r +. : C / R. . : "Foo" : nano +c/Foo : (-) nano . : . Control (^) Alt Meta (M-). ^K . ^K . ^K . ^U . ^6 ( ) ^K M-6 . ^O ^T^T. Shift . Ctrl Alt . Shift . Unicode M-V ( <> <> ). ( ^J) M-V . (^G) . nanorc -- nanorc(5). -A --smarthome Home . Home ( ). . -B --backup (~). -C --backupdir= -- (-B). . -D --boldtext . titlecolor statuscolor promptcolor minicolor keycolor numbercolor / selectedcolor nanorc . nanorc(5). -E --tabstospaces -- . (: .) -F --multibuffer . -G --locking vim . -H --historylog . -I --ignorercfiles nanorc nanorc . -J --guidestripe= . ( set stripecolor nanorc .) -K --rawsequences ncurses . ( terminfo . ssh BSD .) nano. -L --nonewlines . ( POSIX.) -M --trimblanks . -N --noconvert DOS/Mac. -O --bookstyle (justifying) ( ). -P --positionlog 200 . . -Q "regex" --quotestr="regex" . "^([ \t]*([!#%:;>|}]|//))+". ( \t .) . -R --restricted : . : . nano 'r' (: "rnano"). -S --softwrap . ( --atblanks .) -T --tabsize= () . 0. 8. -U --quickblank 20. -c (--constantshow) . --minibar --zero --quickblank 0.8 1.5 . -V --version . -W --wordbounds . -X "" --wordchars="" ( ) . -W (--wordbounds). -Y --syntax= nanorc. -Z --zap Backspace Delete ( ). -a --atblanks . -b --breaklonglines : -r (--fill). -r . ( -w (--nowrap) -- .) -c --constantshow . -U (--quickblank). -d --rebinddelete Delete Backspace . Backspace Delete Delete Backspace. -e --emptyline . -f --rcfile= nano nanorc . -g --showcursor ( ) . . -h --help . -i --autoindent ( ). -j --jumpyscrolling . -k --cutfromcursor ' ' ( ^K) . -l --linenumbers . ( .) -m --mouse . ( ) . X gpm. Shift. -n --noread . nano : "". nano gpg . -o --operatingdir= . -p --preserve XOFF XON ( ^S ^Q) ( ). -/ (--modernbindings) . -q --indicator " " . . -r --fill= number . 0 number . -8. -s " [ ...]" --speller=" [ ...]" hunspell(1) spell(1). -t --saveonexit ( ^X). -u --unix Unix. nano . ( --noconvert .) -v --view : . --restricted . -w --nowrap . . ( -b (--breaklonglines) -- .) -x --nohelp . -y --afterends Ctrl+Right Ctrl+Delete . -z --listsyntaxes . -! --magic libmagic . -@ --colonparsing . . . +1 . -% --stateflags : I M L ( ) R S . (*) . -_ --minibar . " " . ( Unicode: U+xxxx) --stateflags ( ). . [i/n] . --constantshow M-C. --stateflags. -0 --zero ( ) . 1.5 . M-Z . M-X . -1 --solosidescroll . . -- nano. -/ --modernbindings : ^X ^C ^V ^Z ^Y ^F ^G ^S ^O ^Q ( ) ^H . ^A ^B ^D ^R ^P ^T ^W ^E . -p (--preserve). nano. M-L M-S M-N M-M M-I M-X . ^G . M-X : linter. . --rcfile nano . nano : nanorc ( ) nanorc ( ) ~/.nanorc $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nano/nanorc ~/.config/nano/nanorc . nanorc(5) . /usr/share/nano/ /usr/share/nano/extra/ . 0 . 1 . 2 ( ^O^Q ^X^Q). ^T^Z. ( ^Z nano bind ^Z suspend main nanorc .) (-) ^Y "" ^N "" ^A "". ( ^Q " ".) (locale). nano nanorc(5). nanorc nano SPELL . nano . nano SIGHUP SIGTERM . nano.save ".save" . ".save" ( ".save.1") . nano . nano help-nano@gnu.org. Linux (VT) . : https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano. nano save. . (backtrace) NANO_NOCATCH. https://nano-editor.org/ nanorc(5) /usr/share/doc/nano/ ( ) 3 . . : . 2026 9.0 NANO(1)