Questions tagged [nano]
nano - open source text editor available on most Linux distributions
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Error opening terminal: unknown when executing nano
I have nano installed on a CentOS 7 VPS. When trying to open a file using nano, such as sudo nano /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf, i get Error opening terminal: unknown. I am using Termius to access my VPS ...
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Edit mod_rewrite [closed]
Now, this is a very simple question but I'm new to this topic. To test my website, I'm using a virtual machine (Oracle VM). I'm using ubuntu with apache2. I want to edit mod_rewrite to, of course, ...
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Send keys over ssh connection to nano editor
I have a situation where I am deleting the crontab and then recreate it.
So I do crontab -r and then crontab -e.
The problem I have is that crontab -e opens up nano, and I'd like a command line that ...
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editing files with nano adds a bytemark to the file which nginx prints to the client
When we have to edit php files on the webserver, sometimes our website prints out part of what i think is a bytemark to "lock" the file from nano. On the website, it then adds weird strings ...
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When root opens crontab Vim is used although Nano is set as the default editor. Why might this be?
Environment: CentOS 8
Question: When I enter sudo crontab -e it opens in Vim. However Nano is set as the default editor and for every other type of file it is used as expected. Why might this be? ...
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How can I get latest version of nano (4.5) on CentOS 7?
The latest version of the nano editor is 4.5 (https://www.nano-editor.org/)... I'm running 2.3.1 on my CentOS 7 server and want to upgrade. But no repos (EPEL, Remi, etc.) seem to have anything newer ...
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nano very slow over ssh
Recently nano has started to be very slow when editing files over ssh. It's particularly slow when editing large files with syntax highlighting.
It's most noticeable when yanking lines. There can ...