{"id":290,"date":"2014-09-08T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unixed.com\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2014-09-08T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:23:43","slug":"an-option-to-vi-the-nano-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unixed.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/08\/an-option-to-vi-the-nano-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"An option to vi &#8211; the nano editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Many of my students are new to Solaris, have no\u00a0previous UNIX experience and they always seem afraid of the vi editor. \u00a0I understand, it&#8217;s a rather cryptic environment, especially for those admins coming from a Windows or other GUI based environment. \u00a0 \u00a0Here&#8217;s an editor, available in Solaris 11, that I give to them as an option to using vi- it&#8217;s called the nano editor. \u00a0 nano is a\u00a0user friendly command line editor and it&#8217;s installed in the Solaris 11 environment by default. It does not have all of the features found in vi, but it gets the job done. \u00a0 Try it out, just type:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">$ <strong>nano<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unixed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nano1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-291\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unixed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nano1.jpg?resize=709%2C379&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"nano1\" width=\"709\" height=\"379\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Here&#8217;s a link to the<a title=\"nano Editor Documentation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nano-editor.org\/dist\/v2.2\/nano.html\"> nano editor website<\/a> that explains it&#8217;s features or just type:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier;\"># <strong>man 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