Nano alternative for windows powershell

Nano is available for powershell. If you have the Chocolatey package manager installed in your system you can install nano with:

choco install nano

You can install Chocolatey through the command line with:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

My personal experience is that it nano performs great in Windows 10 but it's really slow to start up the first time in Windows 7.

There is now a way to use nano and vim with powershell by installing "Bash on Windows". More information on Scott Hanselman blog

From command line you can run

bash -c "vi filename.txt"
bash -c "nano filename.txt"

you can also add those functions to your powershell profile

function vi ($File){
    bash -c "vi $File"
}

function nano ($File){
    bash -c "nano $File"
}

The blog source where I got the information from

Just install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Then, type.

wsl nano

wsl nano textfilenametoedit.txt

Quotes are not needed.

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