Now, if a standard keyboard only goes up to f12, how can I push f14?
You can't. However, if the application provides alternative
key-bindings, you can use them. As, in this case, you can
with nano. Nano also provide control+backslash, alt+R, and
pressing escape followed by pressing "R" as alternatives to F14.
Next, you say I can type control k, but then control u. Will it prompt
me for which file I want to move text in to?
No, but that's where that escape-comma and escape-period
come into play. They navigate forward and backwards in the
list of file arguments. At the top of your screen it will
read "File: file1.txt". When you press escape followed by
greater-than (or period), it will go to the next buffer
argument, making the top line read "File: file2.txt".
They're basically "next file" and "previous file" commands.
Lastly, while in nano, if I want to globally get rid of all blank lines,
how would I do this? I remember in wp6.0 there were ways to get rid of
all "hrt"
I'm not sure nano provides an easy way to do this. however,
there are plenty of shell utilities that will do what you
want. If you want to compress multiple blank lines into a
single blank line, you can use
cat -s file.txt > file_one_space.txt
If you don't want *any* blank lines in your file, you can use
sed -ni '/./p' file.txt
(to modify the file in place) or
sed -n '/./p' file.txt > file_no_space.txt
to put the results in a file named file_no_space.txt
That second one can also be done with grep:
grep '.' file.txt > file_no_space.txt
If you want to remove all carriage returns in your file, you
can do that with tr
tr -d '\012' < file.txt > file_no_cr.txt
though that can yield some ugly results...you might prefer
tr '\012' ' ' < file.txt > file_no_cr.txt
With vim, you can do some trickier manipulations, like
:g/./norm vipJ
which will paragraphify your document nicely. However, such
stunts require a slightly smarter editor than nano.
-tim
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