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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
10 GPL or a GPL-friendly license, and has unclear restrictions on
11 redistribution. Because of this, Pine and Pico are not included with
12 many GNU/Linux distributions. Also, other features (like goto line
13 number or search and replace) were unavailable until recently or
Chris Allegretta88520c92001-05-05 17:45:54 +0000[diff] [blame]14 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
20 The nano editor is now an official GNU package. For more information
21 on GNU and the Free Software Foundation please see http://www.gnu.org.
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23How to compile and install nano
24
25 Download the nano source code, then:
26 tar zxvf nano-x.y.z.tar.gz
27 cd nano-x.y.z
28 ./configure
29 make
30 make install
31
Chris Allegretta88520c92001-05-05 17:45:54 +0000[diff] [blame]32 It's that simple. Use --prefix with configure to override the
Chris Allegretta9560bb52001-02-13 05:18:57 +0000[diff] [blame]33 default installation directory of /usr/local.
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]34
35Web Page
36
Chris Allegretta66989d62000-09-27 03:16:11 +0000[diff] [blame]37 http://www.nano-editor.org
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]38
39Mailing List and Bug Reports
40
41 SourceForge hosts all the nano-related mailing-lists.
42 + nano-announce@lists.sourceforge.net is a very low traffic list
43 used to announce new Nano versions or other important information
44 about the project.
45 + nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net is the list used by the people
46 that make Nano and a general development discussion list, with
47 moderate traffic.
48 To subscribe, send email to nano-<name>-request@lists.sourceforge.net
49 with a subject of "subscribe", where <name> is the list you want to
50 subscribe to.
51 For general bug reports, send a description of the problem to
Chris Allegretta66989d62000-09-27 03:16:11 +0000[diff] [blame]52 nano@nano-editor.org or directly to the development list.
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]53
54Current Status
55
Chris Allegretta6e285372001-04-07 17:50:03 +0000[diff] [blame]56 This is the 1.1 or unstable branch of nano. New features
57 will be added and things will be changed around and basically
58 stabiliity is not guaranteed. If this is not what you're
59 interested in, please use the latest 1.0.x release of nano.
Chris Allegretta4aa302f2001-03-18 18:50:04 +0000[diff] [blame]60
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]61 Chris Allegretta (chrisa@asty.org)
Chris Allegrettac87a4112000-08-07 02:16:24 +0000[diff] [blame]62
63$Id$