GNU nano text editor for Windows [WARNING: The master branch is constantly rebased and force-pushed so don't expect it to be steady!! -end WARNING]
Home Page: https://files.lhmouse.com/nano-win/
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Why is UTF-8 disabled in the compilation?
Most systems are using UTF-8... and many issues may be related to this.
E.g. #8
Hi there. The official website for downloading the prebuilt binaries is not update: last downloadable version is 4.6 while 4.8 is the latest one. Is there any eta for the new builds to show up? In the meantime i'm trying to build from the source by myself but i'm getting troubles. I followed the readme and installed everything: MSYS2, mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain (with everything) and base-devel. Then i download the zip source from release page, unzip it and follow the rest of the guide. When i'm in the nano-4.8 dir and launch ./configure i get the error bash: ./configure: No such file or directory. If i type autoconfig first then the ./configure command works but with errors. Now i'm trying the build_nano-win.sh as suggested in the Overview section of the readme and it's still running right now, i will report if something fails during the building but that script is not present in the zip of the 4.8 version, so i need help to build the last version from source. Thank you!
Hi,
Would you consider a new binary release update to nano 5.4 "Terre des hommes" (2020 December 2 ) the benefits over 5.2 include:
"set stateflags: makes nano show the state of auto-indenting,
the mark, hard-wrapping, macro recording, and soft-wrapping in the
title bar. The flags take the place of "Modified", and a modified
buffer is instead indicated by an asterisk (*) after its name."
"set scrollercolor: the color of the indicator can be changed."
"Moving the cursor now skips over combining characters (and
other zero-width characters). Deleting a character deletes
also any succeeding zero-width characters, but backspacing
deletes just one character at a time"
Kind Regards Gavin Holt
PS I have been playing with nano 5.3 as distributed in Git for Windows 64[1] and this has worked around the sys.fork() problem. Executing and piping works and is useful. However, 272MB is a big price to pay :)
I have a Portuguese (Portugal) QWERTY Keyboard and my []{}@£§€ characters are only accessible via ALT GR / CTRL + ALT and I can't type any of them because your version of nano recognizes ALT GR as the Right ALT
PS: this doesn't happen with linux/unix nano
Unlike LGPL, the GPL prohibits proprietary use. Windows is proprietary.
Why bother making a port to windows when the license prohibits you to do so.
Exiting nano will print the above text to console.
Older versions, tested with v3.1-68-ga86a9b1a will not do so.
You can see a screenshot here: https://imgur.com/a/UWVc7XX
System specs:
Windows 10 x64 Version 1909 (Build 18363.778)
I've read your readme.md entrie where you wrote: + UNIX style end-of-line handling by default.
And I have no issue with it being a default, but I'm wondering what's the rationale on why can't I override it either via CLI argument or via a .nanorc set noconvert option, but still able to choose CRLF line-endings with M-D when saving a file.
Rather how not to install on Windows-10.
The number one most important thing to notice, is that the file paths given in the include statements, in the .nanorc HAVE to be in the POSIX format. I.e. not using the windows back-slash convention. Therefore you must write it like this:
include "C:\mybin\nano\nanorc\*.nanorc" # Windows paths does NOT work!
include "/mybin/nano/nanorc/*.nanorc" # This works!At this point I have no idea if this is a bug or new development. But it surely would have helped to have known this in advance, before spending hours trying to figure out why something that used to be obvious doesn't work.
@lhmouse
Please make this clear in your README.
Hi,
Version 2.9.2 release, please update the binary version. Thank you!
Is there a way that I can reference all files under share\nano directory in %HOME%\.nanorc file, so where ever I will place nano.exe after that, it will all the syntax highlighting settings?
I downloaded nano-win_10050_v6.4-11-gca57881b7.7z to try it out. Some of the key mappings to commands don't seem to be working. For instance, I can't get ctrl-/ Go to Line to do anything. Also noticed when I call up the help and use the page up key, it fails. Works okay outside of help. When I try nano on a Linux system, page up works as expected at the help screen.
I have my own build of nano from the original source that uses pdcurses in place of ncurses. It's having similar problems with certain key commands and mouse actions. I'm investigating patching parts of the issue now. Thought I had the mouse working at one point, but think it only works properly with pdcurses and the SDL backend. It works intermittently with pdcurses in Win32 console mode. UTF-8 mode might work partially with pdcurses and SDL backend since there's support for drawing UTF-8 characters with SDL2. Native language support works on my version, but you have to set the environment variable for LANG to change the language. It looks for languages files in a location relative to the executable rather than hard-coding a location.
You did a really nice job porting nano and maintaining it with the latest nano updates. There's a lot of work involved in it especially after updates.
Following up on #42, Here are my suggestions for locations to search for the config file, we can discuss and I'll open a PR etc..
| Order | Location |
|---|---|
| Primary | %APPDATA%\nano\nanorc |
| Secondary | %USERPROFILE%\.nanorc |
| Global | %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\nano\nanorc |
| Order | Location |
|---|---|
| Primary | %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\nano\elevated_nanorc |
| Secondary (for backcompat) | %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\nanorc |
%ALLUSERSPROFILE% maps to C:\ProgramData on recent versions of Windows.
2017 February 23
GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things when multiline regexes with identical start and end are involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches, does replacements at the edges of a marked region right, no longer hides double-width characters at the head of softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at startup, and documents the ability to read a file from standard input. Come tickle my ears.
Please tell me how to install... I would like to enable .nanorc and execute nano.exe in posh terminal like nano sth.txt.
\nano-win_9605_v5.7-34-g387900675\pkg_x86_64-w64-mingw32\bin\nano.exe
740KB, 5/25/2021 11:03A.M.
\nano-win_9672_v5.8-44-gc04962b5e\pkg_x86_64-w64-mingw32\bin\nano.exe
740KB, 8/24/2021 11:13A.M.
The files have different CRC32's.
Both report as: v5.7-34-g387900675.
The contents of ~/share/ in both archives at the 5/25/21 11:03 files, so the banner file for the revision was not updated.
If backupdir is set to, I think, any Windows path, Nano cannot backup to that path, but will write to the Home directory instead. Looking at the source, though not really being good at C, I think the problem lies about lines 1420 to 1430 in the files.c file. It only replaces the slashes in the path, but Windows also cannot have colons in filenames.
It says "missing libmcfgthread-1.dll" when starting the program.
Is this a bug? Or should I also download mcfgthread?
Steps to repro:
dir, cd etc.)nano test.txtCtrl+XThe output of previously ran commands (step 2 above) are wiped clean.
Tested on Windows 10.
Can this be fixed?
When NANO is used on "native" Windows Open SSH (Windows 10 and up) from a *nix box, this little error prevents loading nano
Error opening terminal: xterm-256color
I can change the term env variable to none
$Env:TERM = "" on powershell, for example
It works again.
This from Chocolatey package manager nano.
GNU nano from git, v7.2-14-gb7943a37a
(C) 2023 the Free Software Foundation and various contributors
Compiled options: --disable-libmagic --disable-speller --disable-nls --enable-utf8
It is weird having a cmd file and a shell script when all can be done in linux way faster, even from WSL.
In any Ubuntu just prepare the required packages with:
sudo -E apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo -E apt install -y autoconf automake autopoint gcc mingw-w64 gettext git groff make pkg-config texinfo p7zip-fullAnd then replace the contents of build_nano-win.sh with this:
#!/bin/bash -e
_host="${1:-x86_64}-w64-mingw32"
_pwd="$(cygpath -am $(pwd) || readlink -f $(pwd))"
_nproc="$(nproc)"
_prefix="$(cygpath -au $(pwd) || readlink -f $(pwd))/pkg_${_host}"
wget -c "https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/ncurses-6.4.tar.gz"
tar -xzvf ncurses-6.4.tar.gz
patch -p1 < ncurses-6.4.patch
./autogen.sh
mkdir -p "${_pwd}/build_${_host}"
pushd "${_pwd}/build_${_host}"
mkdir -p "ncurses"
pushd "ncurses"
# Build ncurses toolchain for local host
unset CPPFLAGS CFLAGS LDFLAGS
../../ncurses/configure --prefix="$(pwd)" \
--enable-{widec,sp-funcs,termcap,term-driver,interop} \
--disable-{shared,database,rpath,home-terminfo,db-install,getcap,echo} \
--without-{progs,ada,cxx-binding,manpages,pthread,debug,tests,libtool}
make -j$(($(nproc)*2))
# cross Build ncurses for destination host
export CFLAGS="-O2 -g3"
unset CPPFLAGS
export LDFLAGS="-static-libgcc"
../../ncurses/configure --prefix="${_prefix}" --host="${_host}" \
--enable-{widec,sp-funcs,termcap,term-driver,interop} \
--disable-{shared,database,rpath,home-terminfo,db-install,getcap,echo} \
--without-{progs,ada,cxx-binding,manpages,pthread,debug,tests,libtool}
make -j$(($(nproc)*2))
make install
popd
mkdir -p "nano"
pushd "nano"
export CFLAGS="-O2 -g3 -flto"
export CPPFLAGS="-D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO -I\"${_prefix}/include\""
export LDFLAGS="-L\"${_prefix}/lib/\" -static -flto -static-libgcc"
export NCURSESW_CFLAGS="-I\"${_prefix}/include/ncursesw\" -DNCURSES_STATIC"
export NCURSESW_LIBS="-lncursesw"
touch roll-a-release.sh # enable use of `git describe`
../../configure --host="${_host}" --prefix="${_prefix}" \
--enable-utf8 --disable-{nls,speller}
make -j$(($(nproc)*2))
make install-strip
popdThen the build_package.sh could be as simple as:
#!/bin/bash -e
./build_nano-win.sh x86_64
./build_nano-win.sh i686
./package_nano-win.shOr you can just integrate the first two lines into package_nano-win.sh removing the need to create that third file. package_nano-win.sh would be this:
#!/bin/bash -e
./build_nano-win.sh x86_64
./build_nano-win.sh i686
_pkgversion="$(git describe --tags || echo "v0.0.0-0-unknown")"
_revision="$(git rev-list --count HEAD)"
strip -s pkg_{i686,x86_64}-w64-mingw32/bin/nano.exe
cp doc/sample.nanorc.in .nanorc
7z a -aoa -mmt"$(nproc)" -- \
"nano-win_${_revision}_${_pkgversion}.7z" \
pkg_{i686,x86_64}-w64-mingw32/{bin/nano.exe,share/{nano,doc}/} \
.nanorcConsider replacing the slow MSYS2 with a standard ubuntu image that can be easily converted into a GitHub Action.
My two cents. Thanks for the project.
Would it be possible to host a .zip for compatibility with Winget package manager?
Winget's official Nano package is very outdated and the builds provided on the Nano website are bugged and without any documentation: microsoft/winget-pkgs#95161 (comment)
I already got this issue with the previous version (4.6) that's why i asked in the other thread for new build but the issue i'm going to describe still persist: editing with nano through ssh session is completely broken. I mean, arrow keys doesn't work, enter key doesn't work, space doesn't work; Ctrl+x seems to work but strange chars will be printed out upon exit in the shell (�[?2004h�[?2004l). No problem with editing with local files in the Windows cmd shell. I forgot to mention that i've tried with putty and the official windows ssh client: same results in both scenarios.
Today I updated the nano package from 5.7-34 to 5.8-44 via scoop. After the update package file (nano-win_9672_v5.8-44-gc04962b5e.7z) downloaded, the antivirus immediately triggered,
The file C:\Users\Van-Dame\scoop\apps\nano\5.8-44\pkg_i686-w64-mingw32\bin\nano.exe is infected with Gen:Variant.Fragtor.11006 and was moved to quarantine. It is recommended that you run a System Scan to make sure your system is clean.
I ran virustotal on the package where 8 / 57 marked this as malicious (https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/fc93c4fca5abbd80ed5b799af7753002c14c14f16989b05ab5b102fd5efbc2a5/detection).
It is highly unlikely (imo) that this package contains said malware, but the malware class identified makes me wary to install (ransomware).
Hi,
I found an older version of this editor available for download in sourceforge.
I would like to request the repository maintainer to provide the binary version of the editor for new version.
Thank you.
Kind regards
TTn
99% of all PC users are only using 1 account (not counting sudo, or Administrator) accounts, while often mixing privilege escalated shells. Therefore it make no sense to have nano blindly (without telling user) that it is trying to load the .nanorc from a completely different location.
Enhancements
+ .nanorc is loaded from "%USERPROFILE%\.nanorc" with normal privilege
and from "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\.nanorc" with elevated privilege.
+ Systemwide nanorc is loaded from "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\nanorc".
ALLUSERSPROFILE C:\ProgramData
USERPROFILE C:\Users\<username>OS: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22523.1000]
nano: GNU nano from git, v5.9-10-gbe0fb5d4a
ssh: OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.6p1, LibreSSL 3.3.3
When using nano in the Windows terminal in PowerShell, syntax highlighting
colors work correctly.
But in an ssh session to Windows, there are no colors.
I downloaded nano from your builds page:
https://files.lhmouse.com/nano-win/
I am using OpenSSH for Windows with the shell set to the latest PowerShell:
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 7.2.1
PSEdition Core
GitCommitId 7.2.1
OS Microsoft Windows 10.0.22523
Platform Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion 3.0BTW, the package in Chocolatey is ancient, and I wrote this installer script:
https://gist.github.com/rkitover/b0831d048755c7d034b0a936b2a50604
$ pwd
/c/users/administrator/desktop/nano-win/ncurses-6.0
$ ./configure
configure: loading site script /etc/config.site
/etc/config.site: line 23: config.site:23: default build_alias set to x86_64-pc-msys: command not found
/etc/config.site: line 30: config.site:30: default prefix set to /usr: No such file or directory
checking for egrep... grep -E
Configuring NCURSES 6.0 ABI 6 (Mon Feb 13 21:00:48 CST 2017)
checking for package version... 6.0
checking for package patch date... 20150808
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-msys
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-msys
checking target system type... x86_64-pc-msys
Configuring for msys
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checking for gnatgcc... no
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checking for C compiler default output... a.exe
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for executable suffix... .exe
checking for object suffix... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking version of gcc... 4.8.3
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking $CC variable... ok
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for ldconfig... no
checking if you want to ensure bool is consistent with C++... yes
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checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
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checking version of /d/mingw/bin/g++... 4.8.3
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checking if we should install .pc files for /d/mingw/bin/pkg-config... no
checking if we should assume mixed-case filenames... auto
checking if filesystem supports mixed-case filenames... no
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for exctags... no
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checking for ctags... no
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checking for ar... ar
checking for nm... nm
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checking for options to update archives... -curv
checking if you have specified an install-prefix...
checking if libtool -version-number should be used... yes
checking if you want to build libraries with libtool... no
checking if you want to build shared libraries... no
checking if you want to build static libraries... yes
checking if you want to build debug libraries... yes
checking if you want to build profiling libraries... no
checking for specified models... normal debug
checking for default model... normal
checking if you want to have a library-prefix... auto
checking for PATH separator... :
checking if you want to build a separate terminfo library... no
checking if you want to build a separate tic library... no
checking if you want to link with the GPM mouse library... maybe
checking for gpm.h... no
checking for default loader flags...
checking for an rpath option...
checking if release/abi version should be used for shared libs... auto
checking which gcc option to use... -fPIC
checking if you want to disable library suffixes... no
checking if you wish to append extra suffix to header/library paths...
checking if you wish to install ncurses overwriting curses... yes
checking if external terminfo-database is used... yes
checking which terminfo source-file will be installed... ${top_srcdir}/misc/terminfo.src
checking whether to use hashed database instead of directory/tree... no
checking for list of fallback descriptions...
checking if you want modern xterm or antique... xterm-new
checking if xterm backspace sends BS or DEL... BS
checking for list of terminfo directories... /usr/share/terminfo
checking for default terminfo directory... /usr/share/terminfo
checking if big-core option selected... yes
checking if big-strings option selected... yes
checking if you want termcap-fallback support... no
checking if ~/.terminfo is wanted... yes
checking if you want to use restricted environment when running as root... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for unlink... yes
checking if link/symlink functions work... no
checking if tic should use hard links... no
checking if you want broken-linker support code... no
checking if tputs should process BSD-style prefix padding... no
checking if _XOPEN_SOURCE really is set... no
checking if we should define _XOPEN_SOURCE... 600
checking if SIGWINCH is defined... no
checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... no
checking if you want wide-character code... no
checking whether to enable _LP64 definition in curses.h... yes
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no
checking for _LARGEFILE_SOURCE value needed for large files... no
checking for fseeko... yes
checking whether to use struct dirent64... no
checking if you want tparm not to use X/Open fixed-parameter list... yes
checking for type of bool... auto
checking for alternate terminal capabilities file... Caps
checking for type of chtype... uint32_t
checking for type of ospeed... short
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checking if RCS identifiers should be compiled-in... no
checking format of man-pages... gzip
checking for manpage renaming... no
checking if manpage aliases will be installed... yes
checking if manpage symlinks should be used... yes
checking for manpage tbl... no
checking if you want to build with function extensions... yes
checking if you want to build with SCREEN extensions... yes
checking if you want to build with terminal-driver... no
checking for extended use of const keyword... yes
checking if you want to use extended colors... yes
configure: WARNING: This option applies only to wide-character library
checking if you want to use extended mouse encoding... yes
checking if you want to use extended putwin/screendump... yes
checking if you want $NCURSES_NO_PADDING code... yes
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checking for signed char... yes
checking size of signed char... 1
checking if you want to use signed Boolean array in term.h... no
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checking if you want user-definable terminal capabilities like termcap... yes
checking if you want all development code... no
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checking if you do not want to assume colors are white-on-black... yes
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configure: checking for gcc __attribute__ directives...
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configure: WARNING: no regular expression header found
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package: ncurses
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating include/MKterm.h.awk
config.status: creating include/curses.head
config.status: creating include/ncurses_dll.h
config.status: creating include/termcap.h
config.status: creating include/unctrl.h
config.status: creating man/Makefile
config.status: creating include/Makefile
config.status: creating ncurses/Makefile
config.status: creating progs/Makefile
config.status: creating panel/Makefile
config.status: creating menu/Makefile
config.status: creating form/Makefile
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating misc/Makefile
config.status: creating c++/Makefile
config.status: creating misc/run_tic.sh
config.status: creating misc/ncurses-config
config.status: creating man/ncurses6-config.1
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating include/ncurses_cfg.h
Appending rules for normal model (ncurses: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
Appending rules for debug model (ncurses: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
Appending rules for normal model (progs: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
Appending rules for debug model (progs: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
Appending rules for normal model (panel: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
Appending rules for debug model (panel: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
Appending rules for normal model (menu: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
Appending rules for debug model (menu: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
Appending rules for normal model (form: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
Appending rules for debug model (form: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
Appending rules for normal model (test: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
Appending rules for debug model (test: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
Appending rules for normal model (c++: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
Appending rules for debug model (c++: ticlib+termlib+ext_tinfo+base+ext_funcs)
creating headers.sh
** Configuration summary for NCURSES 6.0 20150808:
extended funcs: yes
xterm terminfo: xterm-new
bin directory: /usr/bin
lib directory: /usr/lib
include directory: /usr/include
man directory: /usr/share/man
terminfo directory: /usr/share/terminfo
$ make
cd man && D:/mingw/bin/make DESTDIR="" RPATH_LIST="/usr/lib" all
make[1]: Entering directory 'C:/users/administrator/desktop/nano-win/ncurses-6.0/man'
D:/mingw/msys/usr/bin/sh.exe ./MKterminfo.sh ./terminfo.head ./../include/Caps ./terminfo.tail >terminfo.5
make[1]: Leaving directory 'C:/users/administrator/desktop/nano-win/ncurses-6.0/man'
cd include && D:/mingw/bin/make DESTDIR="" RPATH_LIST="/usr/lib" all
make[1]: Entering directory 'C:/users/administrator/desktop/nano-win/ncurses-6.0/include'
cat curses.head >curses.h
D:\mingw\bin\make.exe: Interrupt/Exception caught (code = 0xc0000005, addr = 0x00007FFE6111FE04)
Makefile:113: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 255
I build it by MinGW-w64, What is the reason? thank you very much!
Is this supported, or am I missing something?
I "installed" nano-win_9232_v5.2-4-ge724fdcb on Windows 10 Pro 19041.572 by unzipping it, copying the nano-win_9232_v5.2-4-ge724fdcb directory to C:\Program Files, removing the i686-w64-mingw32 subdirectory (keeping x86_64-w64-mingw32), and adding C:\Users\user\Downloads\nano-win_9232_v5.2-4-ge724fdcb\x86_64-w64-mingw32\bin to the system Path environment variable.
If I run "nano.exe" or "nano" from powershell 5.1.19041.546 in my user (non-admin account) home directory, sometimes nano runs just fine, and sometimes PowerShell crashes before I can see the nano "screen" come up. Try repeatedly running nano and exiting to reproduce the issue. If it helps any, I typically run PowerShell maximized on a 1920x1080 monitor.
I do not experience the same issue when running nano from the Command Prompt.
I've seen that Nano supports syntax highlighting by default, but when I try opening a simple .py file with nano, no syntax highlighting is applied.
Would be great to know where the file cursor position file is located as enabled by the set positionlog flag.
Also, what is the following location doing?
-o <dir> --operatingdir=<dir> Set operating directory
Thanks for the great port. It works quite well on my Windows 10 except non-English characters.
When i press a non-English character, nano did not print the char.
Nano has had italic and bold support since 5.0. But when specifying italic in any syntax highlighting file, the text doesn't become italic.
Surprisingly, MSys2's nano doesn't have this problem.
$ ./build_nano-win.sh
[omit succeeding output]
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I. -I../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses -I../include -I../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/../include -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO -DHAVE_NCURSESW_NCURSES_H -I"C:/Users/samuel/repos/test_repos/nano-win/pkg_x86_64-w64-mingw32/include" -I"C:/Users/samuel/repos/test_repos/nano-win/pkg_x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/ncursesw" -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -DNDEBUG -DWINVER=0x0501 -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DUSE_WIN32CON_DRIVER -O2 -pthread --param max-inline-insns-single=1200 -c ../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/base/lib_beep.c -o ../objects/lib_beep.o
In file included from ../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/tty/hashmap.c:71:
../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/curses.priv.h:2613:5: error: unknown type name ‘HANDLE’
2613 | HANDLE fd,
| ^~~~~~
In file included from ../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/tty/hardscroll.c:149:
../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/curses.priv.h:2613:5: error: unknown type name ‘HANDLE’
2613 | HANDLE fd,
| ^~~~~~
../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/curses.priv.h:2617:5: error: unknown type name ‘HANDLE’
2617 | HANDLE fd,
| ^~~~~~
../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/curses.priv.h:2617:5: error: unknown type name ‘HANDLE’
2617 | HANDLE fd,
| ^~~~~~
make[1]: *** [Makefile:983: ../objects/hardscroll.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [Makefile:987: ../objects/hashmap.o] Error 1
.. adding -P option to work around gcc 10.2.0
.. adding -P option to work around gcc 10.2.0
In file included from ../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/base/lib_addch.c:37:
../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/curses.priv.h:2613:5: error: unknown type name ‘HANDLE’
2613 | HANDLE fd,
| ^~~~~~
../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/curses.priv.h:2617:5: error: unknown type name ‘HANDLE’
2617 | HANDLE fd,
| ^~~~~~
make[1]: *** [Makefile:991: ../objects/lib_addch.o] Error 1
In file included from ../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/base/lib_addstr.c:46:
../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/curses.priv.h:2613:5: error: unknown type name ‘HANDLE’
2613 | HANDLE fd,
| ^~~~~~
../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/curses.priv.h:2617:5: error: unknown type name ‘HANDLE’
2617 | HANDLE fd,
| ^~~~~~
make[1]: *** [Makefile:995: ../objects/lib_addstr.o] Error 1
In file included from ../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/base/lib_beep.c:44:
../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/curses.priv.h:2613:5: error: unknown type name ‘HANDLE’
2613 | HANDLE fd,
| ^~~~~~
../../../ncurses-6.2/ncurses/curses.priv.h:2617:5: error: unknown type name ‘HANDLE’
2617 | HANDLE fd,
| ^~~~~~
make[1]: *** [Makefile:999: ../objects/lib_beep.o] Error 1
Seems after an update to the version, nano doesn't launch anymore? I've got the issue on 2 PCs - Both popup 'The code execution cannot proceed because libmcfgthread-1.dll was not found'. Reinstall didn't help.
On windows terminal, display collapses when the window is resized.
(wsl nano works well even if I resize.)
Hi,
I uncommented the following line in my .nanorc
include "@PKGDATADIR@/*.nanorc"
but nano gives the error
Error in C:\Users\RashilGandhi/.nanorc on line 237: Error expanding @PKGDATADIR@/*.nanorc: No such file or directory
I was using nano-win on Windows 10 and noticed that ^V when used from Windows Terminal results in a paste, rather than a page down. However, under powershell (don't open under Windows terminal), ^V works fine. Any ideas on how to change that behavior?
Hello,
I enabled mouse support int the .nanorc file, but it is not working for me inside the console.
Is this behavior intended or is this a bug?
Regards
Andi
Hi
Nano may just be the sweet spot for 95% of my editing needs - I am a non-compiling windows user!
I like a portable installation on my USB stick and have a batch file to load nano.exe - below.
As the key bindings were unfamiliar I have used AutoHotKey to translate (also sends mouse wheel and paste from windows clipboard) - below.
With the simple things done I have run in to the "Not supported on Windows yet" message with the following commands:
linter
I would love to call the Lua linter - LuaCheck.exe
https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck
execute: In order to cut/copy to the windows system clipboard I would like to invoke clip.exe with the contents of the nano cutbuffer. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/clip
In order to run the file/script I am editing I would like to invoke shelexec.exe with the current filename. http://www.naughter.com/shelexec.html
In order to manipulate blocks of text I would like to pipe the current selection to a Lua script and insert the returned text.
speller: I use a windows compiled version of hunspell.exe - could this be called from nano-win? https://github.com/iquiw/hunspell-binary/releases/tag/v1.7.0
I guess the execute command is the key to all of these limitations, is there any chance of nano-win being patched to enable execute, flippipe, flipexecute, flipnewbuffer?
Very grateful for any insights, and many thanks for posting binary releases of nano-win (https://files.lhmouse.com/nano-win/) for us mere mortals.
Kind Regards Gavin Holt
nano.bat:
@echo off
REM Run Nano as a portable application
REM See autohotkey for keyboard reassignment
REM Change to this batch directory
CD /D %~dp0
REM Maximise console size
tools\cmdmax.exe
REM Use a color theme
tools\colortool.exe -q tools\themes\textadept.ini
REM Set title so autohotkey can find it!
title nano.exe
REM Run with local rc file
REM nano.exe --rcfile=nano.rc %*
exit
autohotkey script:
; Nano enhancements
#If WinActive("Administrator: nano.exe") or WinActive("nano.exe")
{
; --zap is set
;
^':: Send ''{Left}
^2:: Send ""{Left}
^9:: Send (){Left}
^0:: Send (){Left}
^[:: Send []{Left}
^]:: Send []{Left}
^5:: Send %%{Left}
^+[:: Send {{}{}}{Left}
^+]:: Send {{}{}}{Left}
^TAB::Send !.
^+TAB::Send !,
^Up::Send !q
^Down::Send !w
WheelUp::Send ^p^p^p
WheelDown::Send ^n^n^n
^a::Send ^{Home}+^{End} ; Select all
^b::Send ^a ; BOL
!b::return ; disable invoke linter
^+b::Send +{Home} ; Select BOL
^c::Send !6 ; Copy to local cutbuffer
; ^d::return ; disable del, Can't find a way to duplicate block
; ^e:: Built in :) ; EOL
+^e::Send +{End} ; Select EOL
^f::Send ^w ; Find text
+^f::Send ^/ ; Find RE
^g::Send ^_ ; Goto
^h::Send ^\ ; Replace
^!i::Send ^r ; Insert file
^j::Send !] ; Jump brackets
!j::return ; disables justification
^+j::return ; disables justification
^k::Send +{End}{Backspace} ; kill right
^+k::Send +^a{Del} ; kill left
^l::return ; disable centre line
!l::return ; disables toggle hard wrapping
^m::Send !a ; set/unset mark
^n::Send ^t{Enter} ; Execute not supported - but used to make a new buffer
^o::Send ^r^t ; Open browser
!o::^o ; Export selection or whole file
^p::Send ^u ; Paste
^q::Send !3 ; Line quotes
^r::return ; disable read, Can't work out how to revert to file copy
; ^s:: Built in :) ; Complains if backup set
^t::return ; disable execute
!t::return ; disable cutting to end of file
^v::^u ; Paste from local cutbuffer
^RButton:: SendInput {RAW}%ClipBoard% ; Paste from system buffer
^w::Send ^x ; Close
^x::Send ^k ; Cut to local cutbuffer
^y::Send !{Del} ; Delete sel or line
^z::Send !u ; Undo
^+z::Send !e ; Redo
Esc::Send {F12} ; Will be interpreted using bindings in nano.rc
F2::Send !{PgDn} ; Next bookmark
^F2::Send !{Ins} ; Toggle bookmark
+F2::Send !{PgUp} ; Previous bookmark
^/::^t
^Enter::^] ; Complete word
}
nano.rc:
set atblanks
set autoindent
unset backup
unset backupdir "..\zBackup"
set brackets ""')>]}"
unset constantshow
set fill -8
set linenumbers
set matchbrackets "(<[{)>]}"
set mouse
set multibuffer
set nohelp
set numbercolor white,black
set indicator
set positionlog
set punct "!.?"
set quickblank
set showcursor
set smarthome
set softwrap
set tabsize 4
set tabstospaces
set trimblanks
set zap
include "properties/awk.nanorc"
include "properties/batch.nanorc"
include "properties/css.nanorc"
include "properties/cmake.nanorc"
include "properties/default.nanorc"
include "properties/html.nanorc"
include "properties/ini.nanorc"
include "properties/javascript.nanorc"
include "properties/lua.nanorc"
include "properties/makefile.nanorc"
include "properties/markdown.nanorc"
include "properties/moonscript.nanorc"
include "properties/sed.nanorc"
include "properties/text.nanorc"
include "properties/vi.nanorc"
bind F12 cancel all
bind F12 exit main
bind F12 exit browser
bind F12 exit help
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