How to show line numbering in nano when opening a file
The keyboard combination to display the current line number whilst you are using nano is CTRL+C.
Alternatively, to display the line & column number position you could just use the -c
parameter when launching nano i.e:
nano -c [filename]
To make this permanent, nano
uses a configuration in your home folder ~/.nanorc
Thus to display line numbers always when using nano...
nano ~/.nanorc
(don't worry if its empty - this file doesn't exist by default)
type set constantshow
N.B. the deprecated syntax set const
is shown in the animation
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Since you are using line numbers remember you can use ALT+G to jump to a specific line number.
Accidentally found nice shortcut: Alt+#, which in some keyboard layouts can be done with Alt+Shift+3.
Compile Nano from source:
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/nano.git;cd nano;./autogen.sh;./configure;sudo make install
Then add the following to your .nanorc
file:
set linenumbers
You can use Meta+# to turn line numbers on and off from within Nano.