Nano editor shortcut

Command Line Arguments

-A	Makes the Home key behave more intell­igently (moving to beginning of non-wh­ite­space charac­ters, instead of the beginning of the line, as is default.)
-B	Backs up edits to a copy of the file in the current directory with the suffix ~.
-E	Convert typed tabs to spaces.
-L	Don't add newlines to the ends of files.
-N	Disable automatic conversion of files from DOS/Mac format.
-O	Use the blank line below the titlebar as extra editing space.
-S	Enable smooth scrolling. Text will scroll line-b­y-line, instead of the usual chunk-­by-­chunk behavior.
-c	Constantly show the cursor position.
-w	disable wrapping of long lines.
-$	Enable softwrap (wraps lines instead of horizontal scrolling.) NOTE: Because $ is treated as a variable by many execution enviro­nments, it is advisable to flag this option separately from others you may be using, e.g.:  nano -ALNc -$ textfi­le.txt

nano [OPTIONS] [[+LIN­E,C­OLUMN] FILE]...

Shortcuts

^G	Display help text.
^O	Write the current file to disk
^X	Exit nano.
^T	Invoke spellc­heck, if installed.
^Y	Next screen.
^V	Previous screen.
^L	Refresh (force redraw) current screen.
^J	Justify current paragraph. (Join together broken lines of text until double newline is encoun­tered.)
^W	Search for a string or regular expres­sion.
^\	Search and replace a string or regular expres­sion.