Nano config

September 12, 2022

Tags: toolsshell

If you don't have time to learn Vim (vi), nano remains your best option inside the terminal.

You can customize your version of nano by editing ~/.nanorc. Here is an example :

set tabsize 4
set tabstospaces
set autoindent
set trimblanks
set linenumbers
set constantshow
set keycolor cyan
set functioncolor cyan
set numbercolor yellow
set mouse
include "/opt/homebrew/share/nano/*.nanorc"

If you're on MacOS, the default version of nano is quite old, you can use the latest version by running the following command :

brew install nano

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Written by Olivier Bonnet who lives and works in Montreal writing a blog that nobody reads 🤪