Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | |
| 2 | The nano editor (Nano's ANOther editor) by Chris Allegretta |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Manifesto |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Nano is the editor formerly known as TIP (TIP Isn't Pico). |
| 7 | The nano project was started because of three main problems with the |
| 8 | wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor: |
| 9 | |
| 10 | - It's license is not the GNU GPL, and hence some Linux |
| 11 | distributions, including Debian (my favorite) don't always |
| 12 | include it/don't include binaries. This is not necessarily a |
| 13 | problem, but an issue nonetheless. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | - Until recently, it had no ability to go to a line # from within |
| 16 | the editor. There was the +number command line option, but who wants |
| 17 | to exit a file to go to a specific line number? When I want to go to |
| 18 | a line, since I have to exit anyway, I just call up vi temporarily. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | - No search and replace feature. Well, apparently there is a flag |
| 21 | that lets you do a search and replace (-b in newer versions) but, |
| 22 | well, I still dont like it. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | nano aims to solve these problems by emulating the functionality of |
| 25 | Pico as closely as possible while adressing the problems above and |
| 26 | perhaps providing other extra functionality. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | How to compile and install nano |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Download the nano source code, then: |
| 31 | tar zxvf nano-x.y.z.tar.gz |
| 32 | cd nano-x.y.z |
| 33 | ./configure |
| 34 | make |
| 35 | make install |
| 36 | |
| 37 | It's that simple. Use --prefix to override the default installation |
| 38 | directory of /usr/local. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Web Page |
| 41 | |
Chris Allegretta | 66989d6 | 2000-09-27 03:16:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | http://www.nano-editor.org |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | |
| 44 | Mailing List and Bug Reports |
| 45 | |
| 46 | SourceForge hosts all the nano-related mailing-lists. |
| 47 | + nano-announce@lists.sourceforge.net is a very low traffic list |
| 48 | used to announce new Nano versions or other important information |
| 49 | about the project. |
| 50 | + nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net is the list used by the people |
| 51 | that make Nano and a general development discussion list, with |
| 52 | moderate traffic. |
| 53 | To subscribe, send email to nano-<name>-request@lists.sourceforge.net |
| 54 | with a subject of "subscribe", where <name> is the list you want to |
| 55 | subscribe to. |
| 56 | For general bug reports, send a description of the problem to |
Chris Allegretta | 66989d6 | 2000-09-27 03:16:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | nano@nano-editor.org or directly to the development list. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | |
| 59 | Current Status |
| 60 | |
| 61 | nano is currently at version 0.9.x, and it will probably remain there |
| 62 | for awhile. This reflects the adage that the last 10% of a project |
| 63 | takes 90% of the time. Version 1.0 will be released when there are |
| 64 | no unresolved bugs, and not before. I am also currently looking for |
| 65 | patches for all things listed in the TODO file. If you have a |
| 66 | comment or suggestion, please let me know, all help is appreciated. |
| 67 | |
| 68 | Warning: This program can and possibly will corrupt your data in |
| 69 | its current form! It is beta software, so treat it as such! |
| 70 | Thank you. |
| 71 | |
| 72 | Note that the primary aim of nano is to emulate Pico while adding a |
| 73 | few key "missing" features. I do NOT want just a GPL'ed Pico clone, |
| 74 | nor do I want something that strays too far from the Pico design |
| 75 | (simple and straightforward). If you don't like this, feel free to |
| 76 | fork my code at any time, but please call your editor something |
| 77 | else, believe it or not I struggled awhile before coming up with |
| 78 | the name nano (and before that TIP), and it would be much easier for |
| 79 | everyone if there weren't five versions of the same program. As you |
| 80 | can guess, I'm not much of an emacs fan ;) |
| 81 | |
| 82 | Chris Allegretta (chrisa@asty.org) |
Chris Allegretta | c87a411 | 2000-08-07 02:16:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | |
| 84 | $Id$ |