Nano supports syntax highlighting. Nano supports text justification. And yet, Nano is so much easier than Emacs or Vim. Discover the hidden power of this versatile command line text editor - you may never want to go back to the GUI again!

Nano is one of the most lightweight and user-friendly text editors for command-line. For those who prefer to edit C, Bash, Python or other source files using Nano instead of an advanced IDE like Emacs or Vim, enabling syntax highlighting is probably a must-have.

Nano is a popular and user-friendly text editor for console which is mostly used for editing quickly configuration files, sources or various other text files. It does not compete with advanced development environments like Vim or Emacs, but it's fast and easy on resources.

The focus of this 10 page mini-course is to provide a foundation for using basic text editors. At some time everyone who uses Linux will need a text editor. One of the most important reasons for learning vi is that it is loaded on every Linux distro by default whereas others like nano or emacs are not. So whatever text editor you choose be sure you load it and use it before you need it.

I am partial to the Nano text based editor. For many users that editor (or one like it) is all they need. Because of the simplicity of the tools, why slow down your work with a GUI right? But for some, those GUI-less editors are a big turn off.

When a program in Ubuntu such as crontab -e or dch -i, is used to edit a file, it uses a helper program called sensible-editor. sensible-editor attempts to intelligently find an editor on your system based on a few simple rules. Basically, if you haven’t already defined $EDITOR, it will use one of {nano, nano-tiny, vi}, in that order.

Vi and Vim are extremely powerful text editors that are guaranteed to be on almost every *nix system you log into. You don't always have the comfort of a GUI & nano can be cumbersome when doing large tasks. Vi/Vim are an absolute necessity to every Linux admin and a life saver, so why not sit down, spend some time, and get to know your new friend

We can do PHP programming by any text editor, such as vi and nano. However, a Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is good for debugging.

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