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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
12 with many GNU/Linux distributions. Also, other features (like goto
13 line number or search and replace) were unavailable until recently
14 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
21 information on GNU and the Free Software Foundation please see
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 Ramseyd5be9472004-01-10 06:12:04 +0000[diff] [blame]35
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]36Web Page
37
Chris Allegretta66989d62000-09-27 03:16:11 +0000[diff] [blame]38 http://www.nano-editor.org
David Lawrence Ramseyd5be9472004-01-10 06:12:04 +0000[diff] [blame]39
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]40Mailing List and Bug Reports
41
Chris Allegrettadb3dc572002-02-01 13:40:34 +0000[diff] [blame]42 Savannah hosts all the nano-related mailing-lists.
David Lawrence Ramseyf0b30092004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000[diff] [blame]43
Chris Allegrettadb3dc572002-02-01 13:40:34 +0000[diff] [blame]44 + info-nano@gnu.org is a very low traffic list
David Lawrence Ramseyf0b30092004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000[diff] [blame]45 used to announce new Nano versions or other important
46 information about the project.
Chris Allegrettadb3dc572002-02-01 13:40:34 +0000[diff] [blame]47 + help-nano@gnu.org is for those seeking to get help without
48 wanting to hear about the technical details of its
49 development.
50 + nano-devel@gnu.org is the list used by the people
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]51 that make Nano and a general development discussion list, with
52 moderate traffic.
David Lawrence Ramseyf0b30092004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000[diff] [blame]53
54 To subscribe, send email to nano-<name>-request@gnu.org with a
55 subject of "subscribe", where <name> is the list you want to
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]56 subscribe to.
David Lawrence Ramseyf0b30092004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000[diff] [blame]57
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]58 For general bug reports, send a description of the problem to
Chris Allegretta66989d62000-09-27 03:16:11 +0000[diff] [blame]59 nano@nano-editor.org or directly to the development list.
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]60
61Current Status
62
David Lawrence Ramseyf0b30092004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000[diff] [blame]63 GNU nano has reached its second major milestone, 1.2.x.
64 Development of new features will continue in the 1.3.x branch,
65 while 1.2.x versions will be dedicated to bugfixing and
66 polishing.
Chris Allegretta802c6ef2001-07-11 02:49:43 +0000[diff] [blame]67
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000[diff] [blame]68 Chris Allegretta (chrisa@asty.org)
Chris Allegrettac87a4112000-08-07 02:16:24 +0000[diff] [blame]69
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