Nano

My favourite text editor in Kali Linux. Its an easy to use editor for all types files.

The following are the common commands used for nano:

nano - To start an empty editor

nano /path/to/filename - To edit a file

nano +n /path/to/filename - To edit a file and place the cursor at the start of specific line (n)

Once into the text editor, the following commands/shortcuts:

Ctrl + G - For help page

Ctrl + X - To exit help

Ctrl + C - To cancel a command

Text editing commands:

Ctrl + C - To cancel a command

Ctrl + W - Search for text

Ctrl + K - To cut a line and keep in buffer

Ctrl + U - To uncut or paste from buffer

Ctrl + R - To insert text from a file into the current file/buffer

Ctrl + O - To save current file/buffer to disk

Ctrl + O - To exit from editor

Ctrl + Space - To move forward in editor word by word (Similar to Ctrl + Right in MS Word)

Ctrl + P & Ctrl + N - To move up and down one line at a time

_Ctrl + Y - _Previous page

Ctrl + N - Next page