February 17, 2009

Using GNU Nano in Ubuntu

I was recently installing Warehouse on a Ubuntu Server, and was using nano quite a bit for some simple edits. One thing that was quite annoying was the fact that the “backspace” on my Mac was acting like the forward delete. I figured there had to be a configuration directive somewhere, which I found in /etc/nanorc. I opened that file (remember to use sudo) and un-commented this line out:

## Fix Backspace/Delete confusion problem.
set rebinddelete

That fixed the issue.

Tip: you can search for delete by hitting ctrl+w and typing delete.

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