If you have attempted to use nano at the command line on MacOS recently, you may have noticed that the pico text editor is launched instead, via a symlink for /usr/bin/nano to pico. This is because the latest versions of MacOS remove the nano text editor from the command line for whatever reason, and instead have replaced nano with pico.

If you prefer to use the nano text editor, you can get nano back in the command line by installing it manually yourself.

The simplest way to install the nano text editor on MacOS is to use Homebrew.

How to Install nano Text…