There’s a major release of Nano, the popular terminal editor that comes standard in most major Linux distributions. Version 8.0 includes more extensive navigation. Also, the bindings to copy, paste and exit the editor now make more sense.
The update for Nano 8.0 is called ‘Grus grus’. It’s the first update in over a year for the popular editor and one of the biggest yet. The release notes contain some major adjustments for the editor. The most noticeable one is that the keyboard shortcut bindings have been adjusted. These never made much sense in Nano; to cut and paste, users always had to use ^k and ^u. Those commands have become more logical. For cutting, copying and pasting, users can now use the familiar ^x, ^c and ^v, and ^r to replace a term. The editor can be closed with ^q in the future. Furthermore, commands have been changed to find text, write a file and more.
The search function in the editor has been improved and can now be called with ^f. The editor searches forward by default. For a backward search users can use ^b.
In Nano 8.0 it is also possible to open a file directly at a specific row number. There are also minor improvements in the editor, so that when scrolling, the cursor no longer moves, but only the text window.
