GNU nano
A small, friendly text editor for the terminal

GNU nano is a lightweight, open-source text editor designed for use in terminal environments. It offers features such as syntax highlighting, spell checking, undo/redo, auto-completion, and justification. It is part of the GNU project and is widely available on Unix-like systems.
nano runs as a terminal application, providing keyboard-shortcut-driven text editing with features like syntax highlighting and spell checking directly in the shell.
developers and system administrators working in terminal environments
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- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Company
- GNU Project
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