nano 8.0
The command-line text editor nano has been updated to version 8.0. According to Releasenotes, this update includes significant changes to how it’s used. By default ^F is bound to starting a forward search, and ^B to starting a backward search, while M-F and M-B repeat the search in the corresponding direction. (See the documentation if you want the old bindings back.) Command-line option –modernbindings (-/) makes ^Q quit, ^X cut, ^C copy, ^V paste, ^Z undo, ^Y redo, ^O open a file, ^W write a file, ^R replace, ^G find again, ^D find again backwards, ^A set the mark, ^T jump to a line, ^P show the position, and ^E execute. Above modern bindings are activated also when the name of nano’s executable (or a symlink to it) starts with the letter “e”. To open a file at a certain line number, one can now use also nano filename:number, besides nano +number filename. <Alt+Home> and <Alt+End> put the cursor on the first and last row in the viewport, while retaining the horizontal position. When the three digits in an #RGB color code are all the same, the code is mapped to the xterm grey scale, giving access to fourteen levels of grey instead of just four. For easier access, M-" is bound to placing/removing an anchor, and M-’ to jumping to the next anchor. Whenever an error occurs, the keystroke buffer is cleared, thus stopping the execution of a macro or a string bind. The mousewheel scrolls the viewport instead of moving the cursor. ...