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David Shaked
David Shaked

Reputation: 3381

jump to line X in nano editor

Does the Nano minimal text editor have a keyboard shortcut feature to jump to a specified line?

Vim provides several analogs.

Upvotes: 182

Views: 232683

Answers (10)

Syed Shayan Hasan
Syed Shayan Hasan

Reputation: 69

Use this command for mac:

control ^ + -

Upvotes: 0

angie semler
angie semler

Reputation: 61

Alternatively, on OSX Ventura (nano -version Pico 5.09), Ctrl W (Where is) reveals Ctrl T (Line Number), and you can type in your line number at the prompt.

Upvotes: 6

RdC1965
RdC1965

Reputation: 580

I am using using Ubuntu 20.04 on Win 11 Pro with a Spanish keyboard the nano shortcut to Go To Line is: Ctrl + /.

Upvotes: 3

Yibei Huang
Yibei Huang

Reputation: 766

The shortcut is: CTRL+shift+- ("shift+-" results in "_")

After typing the shortcut, nano will let you to enter the line you wanna jump to, type in the line number, then press ENTER.

Upvotes: 60

Black
Black

Reputation: 20322

Try this, for me it works:

Ctrl+Shift+_

Upvotes: 3

Ghilas BELHADJ
Ghilas BELHADJ

Reputation: 14116

In the nano editor

Ctrl+_

On opening a file

nano +10 file.txt

Upvotes: 347

Hans Ratzinger
Hans Ratzinger

Reputation: 113

I am using Linux raspi 4.19.118+ #1311 via ssh Powershell on Win 10 Pro 1909 with German keyboard. nano shortcut Goto Line with "Crtl + Shift + -" was not working Solution: Step 1 - Do Current Position with "Crtl + C" Step 2 - Goto Line with "Crtl + Shift + -" IS working!

I dont know what effects it. But now its working without step 1!

Upvotes: 3

Wayne
Wayne

Reputation: 9909

According to section 2.2 of the manual, you can use the Escape key pressed twice in place of the CTRL key. This allowed me to use Nano's key combination for GO TO LINE when running Nano on a Jupyter/ JupyterHub and accessing through my browser. The normal key combination was getting 'swallowed' as the manual warns about can more often happen with the ALT key on some systems, and which can be replaced by one press of the ESCAPE key.
So for jump to line it was ESCAPE pressed twice, followed by shift key + dash key.

Upvotes: 8

Kar.ma
Kar.ma

Reputation: 857

I am using nano editor in a Raspberry Pi with Italian OS language and Italian keyboard. Don't know the exact reason, but in this environment the shortcut is:

Ctrl+-

Upvotes: 9

Martin
Martin

Reputation: 532

The shortcut is: CTRL+_

Have a look here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1005737

Upvotes: 28

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