jump to line X in nano editor

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David Shaked picture David Shaked · Mar 24, 2016 · Viewed 128.4k times · Source

Does the Nano minimal text editor have a keyboard shortcut feature to jump to a specified line?

Vim provides several analogs.

Answer

Ghilas BELHADJ picture Ghilas BELHADJ · Mar 24, 2016

In the nano editor

Ctrl+_

On openning a file

nano +10 file.txt

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