On Praxis systems the editor nano is our preferred option. The configuration file in /etc/nanorc or in ~/.nanorc should be updated as follows.

These options provide for a friendly nano user environment with colour coding for popular languages.

set const
set morespace
set noconvert
set nofollow
set nowrap
set smarthome
set smooth
set tabsize 4
set tabstospaces
set undo

include "/usr/share/nano/awk.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/css.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/gentoo.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/html.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/makefile.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/man.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/patch.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/perl.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/php.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/python.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/ruby.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/sh.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/xml.nanorc"