Nano Text Editor Basics (pico) - How to Use Nano on Linux / Mac (Beginners Guide on Ubuntu 20.04)

Nano Text Editor Basics is a Tutorial on How to Use Nano on Linux / Mac. Learn the basics to navigate, edit, save, and exit a file using Nano. This Nano Text Editor Basics Tutorial will be shown on Linux, but applies to Mac and Unix based systems and is intended for beginners learning about Nano. Nano Text Editor Basics - How to Use Nano is a great place to start learning Nano.

Nano Text Editor is a Powerful Text Editor that's been around for a long time and helps you edit files on system terminals. This allows you to easily access a file and make quick edits either locally or remotely through ssh. It's a great skill to have if you like being efficient while browsing a file system and not having to use a graphical method in order to make changes to a file. Simply open the file with Vim make your edits and you're on your way. Explore Nano today!

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0:00 - Explaining what Nano Is
0:37 - Starting to Use Nano
1:00 - Our first file creation
1:41 - Exiting and Saving out of Nano
2:16 - Editing an existing file
2:30 - Cut/Copy/Paste Text in Nano
3:00 - Saving with Nano without Exit
3:48 - Read in a file with Nano
4:35 - Undo/Redo with Nano
5:20 - Searching inside a file with Nano
6:13 - Navigating Filesytem to open with Nano
6:36 - Describing Nano and Pico
6:58 - Pico Example
7:40 - Outro
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[trueindian]

Thankyou for the tutorial.
Finally I understand how to use nano to edit, save, exit a file.

[johnjensen]

Nicely done! Really appreciate the "chapter" delineations on the progress bar. Keep up the good work.

[Ozeki_Negima]

Awesome! You totally just taught me how to use Nano, thank you!

[DurdanesGomez]

thanks for the instruction now I have two linux text editor VI and nano THX

[genkiferal]

I love that nano is so basic and uses some of the same key settings, but it is confusing that the most basic key settings (save, paste, cut, etc.) aren't the same as most editors. I think nano needs to change that small thing. To whom do I address my letter of frustration to?

[emjaycee]

Perhaps you could show people how to use 'nano' to add contrib and non-free repos to help make Debian usable for the majority of people :) I guess explaining 'what' these extra repos actually do to assist would also be useful lol.

[bloodyangel]

I have question. When I try to do ctrl and x and command for search nothing is happening, is that some kind of error? Btw best video yet, it explains better then what we hear in classes :) Pretty much everything else works.

[brianestrada]

Not gonna lie that pico comment caught me off guard

[marcelk]

I have a probably very simple questian: What does the # ( infront of include) stand for and why is the line blue?

[stefanvoykov]

If you start it with -l option it will show line numbers on the left which I think it is usefull.
nano -l filename.txt

[toheebolamilekan]

Can I copy from nano to external programs like mouse pad ?

[existingstars]

How can I copy paste keypair files in nano in Mac terminal i should copy paste the entire key pair file

[mikayyyq]

Is there a way where I can search multiple values in nano?

[nks]

it says:
bash: nano: command not found
btw I use cygwin on windows

[tlumme]

how to *customize* .nanorc for programming example c/c++ or python code.. :) line numbers etc .. code colors ..

[EmM-komu]

10 mins to work out how to save an exit. I hate mac computers