Nano Editor Guide, but you should look at an alternative instead

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I just found the following in my newsletter:

This guide is most useful for people just starting out editing on the command line.

However, I personally recommend a better alternative to nano:

It has more features(split editor, etc.), is way easier to handle (mouse support, with scrolling, etc.) and is overall just better and more modern.

That’s why I would recommend to beginners starting with this software and omitting nano altogether.

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Hi Akito.
I’d like to try it but it’s not available for Ubuntu 18.04 by apt.
Did you install by Snap? Did you built it from source?
Thanks in advance.

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Forgot to mention, that it is available through Debian’s repositories:

Though, there are also pre-compiled packages directly from the maintainer:

For these, you need to download the respective archive, extract it and move the micro binary to /usr/bin and that’s it.