GNU nano

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.

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GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, autoindentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.

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Command line interface Search and replace Terminal based Automatic Indentation

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