help editing with nano (keyboard shortcuts)

johnMG · 07-19-2005, 01:25 PM

With nano, how do I:

- copy the current line (for later pasting) (I see that "cut" is ^k, but I only want to "copy".)

- navigate the cursor forward and backward word-by-word

- navigate the cursor up and down by paragraph

- after using ^w to find a word, how to I move on to the next search result?

itsme86 · 07-19-2005, 02:34 PM

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- copy the current line (for later pasting) (I see that "cut" is ^k, but I only want to "copy".)

Just do ^k and then ^u to put it right back, then you can go to wherever you want to paste it and do ^u again.

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- after using ^w to find a word, how to I move on to the next search result?

Just ^w and then ENTER without typing anything will find the next match using the same search parameters.

johnMG · 07-19-2005, 03:27 PM

Thanks itsme86.

One more I forgot to ask: is there an undo?

johnMG · 07-20-2005, 09:19 AM

Ok, I put this stuff into a quick-help sheet:
http://www.simisen.com/jmg/nano.html

Any glaring omissions or mistakes, please let me know.

Thanks.