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Chris Allegretta	a2ea193	2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	2	GNU nano -- an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor
Chris Allegretta	6e28537	2001-04-07 17:50:03 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3
Chris Allegretta	1e6fb08	2000-12-27 15:46:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4	Overview
Chris Allegretta	a2ea193	2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	5
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[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.
Chris Allegretta	1e6fb08	2000-12-27 15:46:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	8
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	9	First and foremost was its license: the Pine suite does not use
				10	the 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
				13	go-to-line-number or search-and-replace) were unavailable until
				14	recently or require a command-line flag. Yuck.
Chris Allegretta	1e6fb08	2000-12-27 15:46:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	15
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	16	nano aims to solve these problems by emulating the functionality of
				17	Pico as closely as possible while addressing the problems above and
				18	providing other extra functionality.
Chris Allegretta	c46dd81	2001-02-14 14:28:27 +0000	[diff] [blame]	19
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	20	The nano editor is an official GNU package. For more information on
				21	GNU and the Free Software Foundation, please see http://www.gnu.org/.
David Lawrence Ramsey	d5be947	2004-01-10 06:12:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	22
Chris Allegretta	a2ea193	2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	23	How to compile and install nano
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Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	25	Download the nano source code, then:
Benno Schulenberg	d4e1d31	2015-02-21 09:45:53 +0000	[diff] [blame]	26
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	27	tar xvzf nano-x.y.z.tar.gz
				28	cd nano-x.y.z
				29	./configure
				30	make
				31	make install
David Lawrence Ramsey	d5be947	2004-01-10 06:12:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	32
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	33	It's that simple. Use --prefix with configure to override the
				34	default installation directory of /usr/local.
Benno Schulenberg	d4e1d31	2015-02-21 09:45:53 +0000	[diff] [blame]	35
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	36	If you haven't configured with the --disable-nanorc option, after
Benno Schulenberg	f1b87f9	2016-12-24 17:49:14 +0100	[diff] [blame]	37	installation you may want to copy the doc/sample.nanorc file to
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	38	your home directory, rename it to ".nanorc", and then edit it
				39	according to your taste.
David Lawrence Ramsey	d5be947	2004-01-10 06:12:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	40
Chris Allegretta	a2ea193	2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	41	Web Page
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Jordi Mallach	c2b199e	2016-06-20 19:44:56 +0200	[diff] [blame]	43	https://nano-editor.org/
David Lawrence Ramsey	d5be947	2004-01-10 06:12:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	44
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	45	Mailing Lists
Chris Allegretta	a2ea193	2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	46
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	47	There are three nano-related mailing-lists.
David Lawrence Ramsey	f0b3009	2004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	48
Benno Schulenberg	d4e1d31	2015-02-21 09:45:53 +0000	[diff] [blame]	49	+ info-nano@gnu.org is a very low traffic list used to announce
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	50	new nano versions or other important info about the project.
Chris Allegretta	db3dc57	2002-02-01 13:40:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	51	+ help-nano@gnu.org is for those seeking to get help without
Benno Schulenberg	d4e1d31	2015-02-21 09:45:53 +0000	[diff] [blame]	52	wanting to hear about the technical details of its development.
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	53	+ nano-devel@gnu.org is the list used by the people that make nano
				54	and a general development discussion list, with moderate traffic.
David Lawrence Ramsey	f0b3009	2004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	55
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	56	To subscribe, send email to <name>-request@gnu.org with a subject
				57	of "subscribe", where <name> is the list you want to subscribe to.
David Lawrence Ramsey	f0b3009	2004-01-10 06:02:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	58
Benno Schulenberg	e332d2d	2016-11-13 20:35:19 +0100	[diff] [blame]	59	Bug Reports
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				61	To report a bug, please file a description of the problem on nano's
				62	bug tracker (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano -- hover on
				63	"Bugs", then click "Submit new"). The issue may have already been
				64	reported, so please look first.
Chris Allegretta	a2ea193	2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	65
				66	Current Status
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Benno Schulenberg	49fc528	2016-08-14 21:18:00 +0200	[diff] [blame]	68	GNU nano has reached its seventh milestone, 2.6.x. Since 2.5.0, it
				69	is a "rolling" release: bug fixing and development go hand in hand.