nano manual

Allow native messaging with the shell application

Copy the extension ID and run the following in your terminal.

chrome-shell install [--target=platform] [extension_ids]

Possible targets are chrome, chrome-dev, chrome-beta, chrome-canary and chromium.

Configure keyboard shortcuts

Navigate to chrome://extensions/shortcuts to configure keyboard shortcuts.

Configure the text editor program

You can also configure the text editor program by importing and exporting settings in the “Options” page—Right-click the nano toolbar button and select “Options”.

Example configuration:

{
  "nano": {
    "command": "xterm",
    "args": ["-e", "nano", "--"]
  }
}

{
  "nano": {
    "command": "open",
    "args": ["-n", "-W", "--"]
  }
}

Make sure the commands are in your PATH.

On macOS, you can set the PATH environment variable for all services through launchctl.

sudo launchctl config user path "$PATH"