Display full path in title bar of nano editor

Question

The nano editor by default displays only the filename being edited, but not its full path. This can be a problem, if I need to edit old vs new versions of files by the same name.

Does anyone know of a way to toggle or change this behaviour to display a full path? Or is there no way short of figuring out where this happens in the source code and recompiling?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 27 '20 at 22:20

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man nano say's nothing about files' paths. /etc/nanorc nano configuration file also gives no such option. But if you want nano to display filename's full path, use full path during file's opening:

nano /home/user/test/test.sh will show it the next way:

answered May 27 '20 at 22:20

Gryu

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wow, I'd never spotted that! Thanks! I may make a tiny script / alias which invokes realpath on the argument first. – Tasos Papastylianou May 27 '20 at 22:24

Display full path in title bar of nano editor

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