Many of the utilities in Ubuntu Linux use a text editor to allow you to edit configuration options and files. An example of this is using the crontab command, which allows you to edit your cron jobs using the default editor.
Nano is another text editor for linux in the command line. In fact nano stands for ( Nano’s ANOther editor). It is an enhanced clone of the pico text editor. Unlike vi and vim, there aren’t as many cryptic ways to navigate through nano. The downside though is that nano will not run off a floppy disc like vi. Nano comes preinstalled with Debian and Ubuntu, but we must install it from the repo’s for Suse and Fedora.
