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William McManus
William McManus
14,819 Points
Posted by William McManus
William McManus
14,819 Points

Using ctrl-Z to suspend NANO in Terminal (Macintosh).

My Terminal suddenly stopped letting my suspend Nano using ctrl-Z. I did some research and it turns out if I input:

Setting set suspend

in ~/.nanorc

it fixes the problem. My question is how do I locate or access ~/.nanorc ? I have tried every command line input I can think of and searched for the file / directory on my drive, all to no avail. anyone? :)

1 Answer

Isaac Al-Wahaibi
Isaac Al-Wahaibi
6,522 Points
Isaac Al-Wahaibi
Isaac Al-Wahaibi
6,522 Points

you can find it by searching in system files ( you have to do that by showing search criteria )

or you can navigate through terminal, macintosh HD/private/etc/nanorc

hope that help ;)

William McManus
William McManus
14,819 Points
William McManus
William McManus
14,819 Points

hey Isaac, I have tried both, but I can not locate the file "nanorc".... I am thinking of re installing, but it seems like a common problem that others seem to be able to fix, so I don't want to jump the gun on it. any other ideas? could it have been put into a rogue directory somewhere?