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I am on ARM-based MacOS Sonoma 14.

For some reason, I have no luck with the 'copy' step from this answer to the same question on OS X. I have tried both with and without the 'use Option as Meta key' button, i.e, Esc+6 / Esc+Shift+6 & Option+6 / Option+Shift+6. I needed to use Ctrl+Shift+6 to set/unset mark. Has nano's behavior changed, or am I doing something wrong?

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  • For me too it doesn't work
    – user150109
    Commented Jan 11 at 5:42
  • ESC-6 works for me on Sonoma, without "Option as Meta" set. Is it only "Copy" which doesn't work for you, or do "Undo" and "Set Mark" not work either?
    – nohillside ♦
    Commented Jan 11 at 9:37
  • @nohillside i can (un)set marks, but ESC-U (undo) and ESC-6 (copy) don't work. interestingly, i tested in a Linux VM on the same machine, and all of these work just fine, using ESC as Meta key.
    – shea
    Commented Jan 11 at 16:27
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    Ah, my bad. I installed nano via Homebrew ages ago, totally forgot about that. macOS doesn't even include nano any longer, /usr/bin/nano is just a symlink to pico.
    – nohillside ♦
    Commented Jan 12 at 7:28

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Although nano is (now) symlinked to pico v5.09, it seems 'Undo' and 'Copy' are still disabled by default.

Use brew install nano (followed by hash -r) to install the latest version of nano, along with enabling these features.

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