| GNU Nano 8.5 Enhances Anchor Positions |
| Written by Alex Denham | |||
| Thursday, 10 July 2025 | |||
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GNU Nano 8.5 has been released with improved text anchors and fine-tuned syntax coloring. GNU nano is a command line text editor for Unix and Linux that aims to be simple and easy to use. Nano was originally named Tip and was a free replacement for the Pico text editor, part of the Pine email suite that at the time was the most widely used email package on Unix. Nano is popular as an alternative to Vi and Emacs, and while few developers use it as their major editor, it offers a small, resource friendly editor for tasks such as editing batch files.
The latest version has improvements to make developers' lives easier and to provide better versions of existing features. The first improvement is an improvement to the handling of anchor points, In GNU nano's term for named locations within a file that can be marked and later jumped to. The new release has the ability to save and restore anchors so long as the first line has an anchor. Version 8.0 of nano extended the ability to open a file at a certain line number, by using the format This release also adds the ability to exits with an error status upon keystrokes ^O^Q and ^X^Q. The reasoning behind this addition is to handle situations where a developer wants to stop what nano was doing - for example, if they were editing a git commit message and realized that they needed to abort the commit. There's also improved handling of syntax colors to fix existing problems in some locales such as Turkish where some coloring rules failed to work in earlier releases. Nano 8.5 is available for download now. More InformationRelated ArticlesNano 8 Adds Modern Bindings And Cycle Function GNU Nano 6 Increases Editing Area To be informed about new articles on I Programmer, sign up for our weekly newsletter, subscribe to the RSS feed and follow us on Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin. 
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