Nano offers plenty of features like line numbering, searching, syntax highlight and lots of others. Learning Nano is easy. As the editor is available on all the major Linux distros, you don’t have to worry about other text editors at all.

Installing Nano

In cases, your system may not come up with Nano, or you uninstalled it. You can easily get this text editor for your system. Run the following command(s) according to your Linux distro –

# Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt install nano

# CentOS/Fedora

sudo yum install nano

You can also install Nano from source. Get the latest source code of Nano.

Then, run the following commands –

tar -xvzf nano-3.2.tar.gz

cd nano-3.2/

./configure

make

sudo make install

Nano usage

Let’s fire up Nano.

nano

This is the window of Nano. At the bottom, you’ll notice all the available actions you can perform.

Here’s a short list you need to keep in mind at all cost –

Write out – ^O (Ctrl + O)

Exit – ^X (Ctrl + X)

Search – ^W (Ctrl + W)

In the case of other options, you can easily check them out at the end of the window of Nano.

If you press ^G (Ctrl + G), the help option will pop up.

• Creating a new file

Fire up Nano –

nano

Type something in there –

Save the file –

You can find out the file on the directory you were in.

Note – I’m using Bat as an alternative to the popular “cat” command. Learn more about Bat – a “cat” clone with lots of improvements.

• Opening file with Nano

Run the following command –

nano ~/.bashrc

You can see that the file is available for reading and editing.

Sometimes, you need to locate to the exact line and column of the file. Use the following command –

nano +line,columns <file>

If you’re in need of editing any system files, make sure that you use “sudo” for avoiding any conflict.

sudo nano <file>

• Copy and paste

Move the cursor to the place you want to copy the text –

Hold Shift and move the cursor with your arrow keys.

For copying the text, press “M-6” (Alt + 6).

For pasting the content, press “Ctrl + U”.

Note that Nano isn’t able to interact with the global system clipboard. The copy and paste are only limited within Nano. If you’re using a terminal emulator, you have to use the emulator’s system of copying and pasting from the lines.

Enjoy!

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Brackets features

Dreamweaver is the ultimate weapon of every web developer’s arsenal. However, it’s a paid software and requires Windows. The web platform is mostly developed on Linux, so having a nice text editor is a great relief. For any programmer, Brackets is a suitable choice. There are many reasons why you should start using Brackets.

• Lightweight
• Inline editor
• Tons of handy add-ons in the collection
• Live preview
• Preprocessor support (SCSS, LESS etc.)
• Beautiful theming
• Code suggestion

How to install Brackets

For Windows users, Brackets is easily available as an installer. Get it on Brackets official site.

However, for Linux users, Brackets has to be installed through some difficulties. Don’t worry, as they’re quite simple.

• Ubuntu + Ubuntu-based

Ubuntu is the most popular & user-friendly Linux distro of all. Moreover, tons of other distros also use Ubuntu/Debian as the base. If your Linux distro is based on Ubuntu/Debian, follow these steps.

• Download Brackets DEB package.

• Run the following commands:

cd ~/Downloads
sudo dpkg -i Brackets.Release.1.12.64-bit.deb

sudo apt install -f

• Fedora

Adobe didn’t make any official edition for Fedora, unfortunately. However, thanks to some really dedicated users, it’s available to install.

At first, enable the “Copr” repository on Fedora.

sudo dnf copr enable mosquito/brackets

Then, install Brackets.

sudo dnf install brackets

• Arch Linux

For Arch & Arch-based distros, follow these steps to install Brackets.

sudo Pacman -S git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/brackets-bin.git


cd brackets-bin
makepkg -si

sudo ln -s /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome /bin/google-chrome

Note that Brackets use Google Chrome for “Live Preview” feature. You need to install Chrome for having error-free usage.

Alright! It’s time to code with Brackets, folks!

There’s also one awesome, powerful & free video editor available. It’s cross-platform and incredibly simple to use. Learn how to install OpenShot Video Editor on Linux.

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Suplemon features

As a text editor, there are tons of features that Suplemon offers. It’s a complete package that mimics Sublime Text with some additional tweaks.

• Multi-cursor editing support.
• Powerful syntax highlighting with text mate themes.
• Easy undo/redo function
• Supports autocomplete
• “Find”, “Find next” and “Find all” functions
• Mouse support
• Custom keyboard shortcuts with easy default shortcuts

Install Suplemon

Suplemon can be installed via simple commands. But first, make sure that you install PIP (from Python) to work smoothly. Here’s the complete step-by-step guide.

• Install PIP.

sudo apt install python-pip         [Debian/Ubuntu]

# yum install epel-release 
# yum install python-pip            [CentOS/RHEL]

# dnf install python-pip            [Fedora]

# zypper install python-pip         [OpenSUSE]

# pacman -S python2-pip             [Arch Linux]

• Install “setuptools”.

sudo pip install setuptools

• Install Suplemon.

sudo pip install suplemon

Usage

Using Suplemon is pretty simple and easy. It’s just the same as you would use Nano.

For demonstration, here’s a file on the “Desktop” named “test.txt”. In order to open it via Suplemon, we have to follow the following commands:

cd ~/Desktop
suplemon test.txt

The interface will look like this:

Here are the default shortcut keys by Suplemon. If you want to edit them, you have to follow the instructions from here.

• Exit – CTRL + Q
• Copy – CTRL + C
• Cut lines – CTRL + X
• Save file – CTRL + S
• Run Suplemon commands – CTRL + E

Wherever you would use Nano, you can now use Suplemon as the text editor.

Did you know that you can encrypt files on Linux? Encryption is a very powerful method to ensure that your data is safe, no matter where it is. Learn how to encrypt your files on Linux.

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