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Re:Customize Nano Text Editor by chawyehsu on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @09:42AM (#45811569)
It seems few people are aware of how customizable nano actually is. Usually, they use nano with the default preset for quick bootstrapping tasks and then switch to vim without hesitation. While vim/neovim are certainly very powerful, nano remains my go-to editor for many quick terminal operations. I've customized it quite a bit[1], especially the key bindings, though the defaults are already excellent.

[1]: https://github.com/chawyehsu/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/nano...

Re:Customize Nano Text Editor by davidcollantes on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @11:36AM (#45812897)
I would dearly love it if you could comment a little bit more that nanorc. I am going to “steal” some of it, for sure. Thank you much for sharing it!