[Help-nano] Can I Cut Before Cursor?

[Hart Larry]

Well, following up on an earlier message before I subscribed to this list. 
Essentially what I want to do is edit the contents of a pine addressbook and cut 
out everything before the word "whitelist" Sure it would be nice if there were 
an easy way in Nano to do this, but manually looking over 730 lines would be 
time consuming.
Now in answering a question about special symbols, NANO will not let me search 
for or replace a charactor called "null" at least thats what my screen-reader 
says it is. So even pasting a null in, NANO ignores it.
Another type of thing I cannot do in NANO, are searching/replace to nuke blank 
lines. You must work on a file like this:
sed '/^[ \t*]*$/d' in_file.txt > out_file.txt
Word-Perfect, at least when I was in DOS would let me work on soft-and-hard 
returns, but I am going to need `alot of asistance getting a Linux version 
working.
And lastly, maybe would be nice having a current number of lines in a file, 
always near an end of screen, as they are when you first enter. Also, the nain 
NANO home page would be more helpful with links to the mailing lists, also in 
the toolbar you have many links on a single line, not so easy listing with 
speech. Thanks so much in advance for suggestions.
Hart