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| GNU nano - an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor. |
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| Overview |
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| The nano project was started because of a few "problems" with the |
| wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor. |
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| First and foremost is its license: the Pine suite does not use the |
| GPL or a GPL-friendly license, and has unclear restrictions on |
| redistribution. Because of this, Pine and Pico are not included |
| with many GNU/Linux distributions. Also, other features (like goto |
| line number or search and replace) were unavailable until recently |
| or require a command line flag. Yuck. |
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| nano aims to solve these problems by emulating the functionality of |
| Pico as closely as possible while addressing the problems above and |
| perhaps providing other extra functionality. |
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| The nano editor is now an official GNU package. For more |
| information on GNU and the Free Software Foundation please see |
| http://www.gnu.org. |
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| How to compile and install nano |
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| Download the nano source code, then: |
| tar zxvf nano-x.y.z.tar.gz |
| cd nano-x.y.z |
| ./configure |
| make |
| make install |
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| It's that simple. Use --prefix with configure to override the |
| default installation directory of /usr/local. |
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| Web Page |
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| http://www.nano-editor.org |
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| Mailing List and Bug Reports |
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| Savannah hosts all the nano-related mailing-lists. |
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| + info-nano@gnu.org is a very low traffic list |
| used to announce new nano versions or other important |
| information about the project. |
| + help-nano@gnu.org is for those seeking to get help without |
| wanting to hear about the technical details of its |
| development. |
| + nano-devel@gnu.org is the list used by the people |
| that make nano and a general development discussion list, with |
| moderate traffic. |
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| To subscribe, send email to nano-<name>-request@gnu.org with a |
| subject of "subscribe", where <name> is the list you want to |
| subscribe to. |
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| For general bug reports, send a description of the problem to |
| nano@nano-editor.org or directly to the development list. |
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| Current Status |
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| GNU nano has reached its second major milestone, 1.2.x. |
| Development of new features will continue in the 1.3.x branch, |
| while 1.2.x versions will be dedicated to bugfixing and |
| polishing. |
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| Chris Allegretta (chrisa@asty.org) |
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