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| The nano editor (Nano's ANOther editor) by Chris Allegretta |
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| Manifesto |
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| Nano is the editor formerly known as TIP (TIP Isn't Pico). |
| The nano project was started because of three main problems with the |
| wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor: |
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| - It's license is not the GNU GPL, and hence some Linux |
| distributions, including Debian (my favorite) don't always |
| include it/don't include binaries. This is not necessarily a |
| problem, but an issue nonetheless. |
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| - Until recently, it had no ability to go to a line # from within |
| the editor. There was the +number command line option, but who wants |
| to exit a file to go to a specific line number? When I want to go to |
| a line, since I have to exit anyway, I just call up vi temporarily. |
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| - No search and replace feature. Well, apparently there is a flag |
| that lets you do a search and replace (-b in newer versions) but, |
| well, I still dont like it. |
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| nano aims to solve these problems by emulating the functionality of |
| Pico as closely as possible while adressing the problems above and |
| perhaps providing other extra functionality. |
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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 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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| SourceForge hosts all the nano-related mailing-lists. |
| + nano-announce@lists.sourceforge.net is a very low traffic list |
| used to announce new Nano versions or other important information |
| about the project. |
| + nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net is the list used by the people |
| that make Nano and a general development discussion list, with |
| moderate traffic. |
| To subscribe, send email to nano-<name>-request@lists.sourceforge.net |
| with a subject of "subscribe", where <name> is the list you want to |
| subscribe to. |
| 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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| nano is currently at version 0.9.x, and it will probably remain there |
| for awhile. This reflects the adage that the last 10% of a project |
| takes 90% of the time. Version 1.0 will be released when there are |
| no unresolved bugs, and not before. I am also currently looking for |
| patches for all things listed in the TODO file. If you have a |
| comment or suggestion, please let me know, all help is appreciated. |
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| Warning: This program can and possibly will corrupt your data in |
| its current form! It is beta software, so treat it as such! |
| Thank you. |
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| Note that the primary aim of nano is to emulate Pico while adding a |
| few key "missing" features. I do NOT want just a GPL'ed Pico clone, |
| nor do I want something that strays too far from the Pico design |
| (simple and straightforward). If you don't like this, feel free to |
| fork my code at any time, but please call your editor something |
| else, believe it or not I struggled awhile before coming up with |
| the name nano (and before that TIP), and it would be much easier for |
| everyone if there weren't five versions of the same program. As you |
| can guess, I'm not much of an emacs fan ;) |
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| Chris Allegretta (chrisa@asty.org) |
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| $Id$ |