From the course: Learning nano
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Finding help
- One of the most helpful areas for learning Nano is, of course, the Help documentation. You can see the shortcut down here in the bottom left, Control G. I'll press it and open up the documentation. This documentation has a listing of the keyboard commands. It's really handy but it's a few screens long. So to make it easier to reference, I've copy and pasted the contents of this into a file in the Exercise Files. That way, you can keep it up alongside Nano to reference the shortcut keys, or you can print it out. To scroll up and down here in Nano, and also in your documents, there are a couple options. You can press Control V or Control Y to move to the next page or the previous page. You can press Control P or Control N to move to previous and next lines. I'll press Control N a few times and you can see I'm scrolling down by line. I'll press Control P a few times to move back up. Depending on your version of Nano, you may also see M-\ and M-/ for first and last line. M stands for…
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