| M+A | Turn the mark on/off |
| Tab | Indent marked region |
| Shift+Tab | Unindent marked region |
| M+N | Turn line numbers on/off |
| M+P | Turn visible whitespace on/off |
| M+V | Enter next keystroke verbatim |
| ^+L | Refresh the screen |
| ^+Z | Suspend nano |
Tag: Nano Cheat Sheet – Mac
| ^Ctrl+T | Run a spell check |
| ^+J | Justify paragraph or region |
| M+J | Justify entire buffer |
| M+B | Run a syntax check |
| M+F | Run a formatter/fixer/arranger |
| M+: | Start/stop recording of macro |
| M+; | Replay macro |
| ^+H | Delete character before cursor |
| ^+D | Delete character under cursor |
| ^+Shift+Del | Delete word to the left |
| ^+Del | Delete word to the right |
| M+Del | Delete current line |
| ^+C | Report cursor position |
| M+D | Report word/line/char count |
| ^+G | Display help text |
| M+G | Go to specified line |
| M+] | Go to complementary bracket |
| M+↑ | Scroll viewport up |
| M+↓ | Scroll viewport down |
| M+< | Switch to preceding buffer |
| M+> | Switch to succeeding buffer |
| ^+Q | Start backward search |
| ^+W | Start forward search |
| M+Q | Find next occurrence backward |
| M+W | Find next occurrence forward |
| M+R | Start a replacing session |
| ^+K | Cut current line into cutbuffer |
| M+6 | Copy current line into cutbuffer |
| ^+U | Paste contents of cutbuffer |
| M+T | Cut until end of buffer |
| ^+] | Complete current word |
| M+3 | Comment/uncomment line/region |
| M+U | Undo last action |
| M+E | Redo last undone action |
| ^+B | One character backward |
| ^+F | One character forward |
| ^+← | One word backward |
| ^+→ | One word forward |
| ^+A | To start of line |
| ^+E | To end of line |
| ^+P | One line up |
| ^+N | One line down |
| ^+↑ | To previous block |
| ^+↓ | To next block |
| ^+Y | One page up |
| ^+V | One page down |
| M+\ | To top of buffer |
| M+/ | To end of buffer |
| ^+S | Save current file |
| ^+O | Offer to write file (“Save as”) |
| ^+R | Insert a file into current one |
| ^+X | Close buffer, exit from nano |