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Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]1
Chris Allegrettac46dd812001-02-14 14:28:27 +0000[diff] [blame]2 GNU nano - an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor.
Chris Allegretta6e285372001-04-07 17:50:03 +0000[diff] [blame]3
Chris Allegretta1e6fb082000-12-27 15:46:22 +0000[diff] [blame]4Overview
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]5
Chris Allegretta1e6fb082000-12-27 15:46:22 +0000[diff] [blame]6 The nano project was started because of a few "problems" with the
7 wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor.
8
9 First and foremost is its license: the Pine suite does not use the
David Lawrence Ramseyf0b30092004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000[diff] [blame]10 GPL or a GPL-friendly license, and has unclear restrictions on
11 redistribution. Because of this, Pine and Pico are not included
David Lawrence Ramsey5c8d3162006-06-25 04:37:05 +0000[diff] [blame]12 with many GNU/Linux distributions. Also, other features (like go
13 to line number or search and replace) were unavailable until
14 recently or require a command line flag. Yuck.
Chris Allegretta1e6fb082000-12-27 15:46:22 +0000[diff] [blame]15
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]16 nano aims to solve these problems by emulating the functionality of
Chris Allegretta88520c92001-05-05 17:45:54 +0000[diff] [blame]17 Pico as closely as possible while addressing the problems above and
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]18 perhaps providing other extra functionality.
Chris Allegrettac46dd812001-02-14 14:28:27 +0000[diff] [blame]19
David Lawrence Ramseyf0b30092004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000[diff] [blame]20 The nano editor is now an official GNU package. For more
David Lawrence Ramsey5c8d3162006-06-25 04:37:05 +0000[diff] [blame]21 information on GNU and the Free Software Foundation, please see
David Lawrence Ramseyf0b30092004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000[diff] [blame]22 http://www.gnu.org.
David Lawrence Ramseyd5be9472004-01-10 06:12:04 +0000[diff] [blame]23
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]24How to compile and install nano
25
26 Download the nano source code, then:
27 tar zxvf nano-x.y.z.tar.gz
28 cd nano-x.y.z
29 ./configure
30 make
31 make install
David Lawrence Ramseyd5be9472004-01-10 06:12:04 +0000[diff] [blame]32
David Lawrence Ramseyf0b30092004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000[diff] [blame]33 It's that simple. Use --prefix with configure to override the
Chris Allegretta9560bb52001-02-13 05:18:57 +0000[diff] [blame]34 default installation directory of /usr/local.
David Lawrence Ramsey5c8d3162006-06-25 04:37:05 +0000[diff] [blame]35
36 If you configured with the "--enable-nanorc" option, after
37 installation you might copy the doc/nanorc.sample to your home
38 directory, rename it to ".nanorc", and then edit it according to
39 your taste.
David Lawrence Ramseyd5be9472004-01-10 06:12:04 +0000[diff] [blame]40
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]41Web Page
42
David Lawrence Ramsey1fc55a22005-03-19 21:33:13 +0000[diff] [blame]43 http://www.nano-editor.org/
David Lawrence Ramseyd5be9472004-01-10 06:12:04 +0000[diff] [blame]44
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]45Mailing List and Bug Reports
46
Chris Allegrettadb3dc572002-02-01 13:40:34 +0000[diff] [blame]47 Savannah hosts all the nano-related mailing-lists.
David Lawrence Ramseyf0b30092004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000[diff] [blame]48
Chris Allegrettadb3dc572002-02-01 13:40:34 +0000[diff] [blame]49 + info-nano@gnu.org is a very low traffic list
David Lawrence Ramseyce364e22004-03-03 01:25:46 +0000[diff] [blame]50 used to announce new nano versions or other important
David Lawrence Ramseyf0b30092004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000[diff] [blame]51 information about the project.
Chris Allegrettadb3dc572002-02-01 13:40:34 +0000[diff] [blame]52 + help-nano@gnu.org is for those seeking to get help without
53 wanting to hear about the technical details of its
54 development.
55 + nano-devel@gnu.org is the list used by the people
David Lawrence Ramseyce364e22004-03-03 01:25:46 +0000[diff] [blame]56 that make nano and a general development discussion list, with
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]57 moderate traffic.
David Lawrence Ramseyf0b30092004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000[diff] [blame]58
59 To subscribe, send email to nano-<name>-request@gnu.org with a
60 subject of "subscribe", where <name> is the list you want to
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]61 subscribe to.
David Lawrence Ramseyf0b30092004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000[diff] [blame]62
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]63 For general bug reports, send a description of the problem to
Chris Allegretta66989d62000-09-27 03:16:11 +0000[diff] [blame]64 nano@nano-editor.org or directly to the development list.
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]65
66Current Status
67
David Lawrence Ramsey5ab28f22006-12-11 18:39:35 +0000[diff] [blame^]68 GNU nano has reached its third stable milestone, 2.0.x.
Chris Allegretta802c6ef2001-07-11 02:49:43 +0000[diff] [blame]69
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]70 Chris Allegretta (chrisa@asty.org)
Chris Allegrettac87a4112000-08-07 02:16:24 +0000[diff] [blame]71
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