Overview

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The 2.0 release of GNU nano is a major leap forward in usability and features, building on the 1.3 branch.

The following improvements and features are available in version 2.0:
 
  • UTF-8 support.
  • Improved color syntax highlighting.
  • Copy text without cutting it.
  • Verbatim input mode.
  • Repeat last seach without confirmation (Meta-W).
  • Spell check/replace selected text only.
  • Indent marked text.
  • Move to beginning/end of paragraph.
  • Search within the file browser.
  • Auto-conversion of mixed file format