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GNU MoeGNU nano
Free

Free software under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.

 Free

Free and open source under the GPL.

Linux, Command line Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Global search and replace across buffers
  • Includes a directory browser and file name completion
  • Shortcuts shown on screen, so there is nothing to memorise
  • Installed or one package away on practically every Unix system
  • Console interface
  • Designed for ASCII and ISO-8859 text encodings
  • No plugins, projects or language intelligence
  • Not designed for editing large codebases
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: GPL-2.0-or-later License: GPL-3.0
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Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 8, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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