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The nano editor (Nano's ANOther editor) by Chris Allegretta
Manifesto
Overview
The nano project was started because of a few "problems" with the
wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor.
First and foremost is its license: the Pine suite does not use the
GPL or a GPL-friendly license, and has unclear restrictions on
redistribution. Because of this, Pine and Pico are not included with
many GNU/Linux distributions. Also, other features (like goto line
number or search and replace) were unavailable until recently or
require a command-line flag. Yuck.
Nano is the editor formerly known as TIP (TIP Isn't Pico).
The nano project was started because of three main problems with the
wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor:
- It's license is not the GNU GPL, and hence some Linux
distributions, including Debian (my favorite) don't always
include it/don't include binaries. This is not necessarily a
problem, but an issue nonetheless.
- Until recently, it had no ability to go to a line # from within
the editor. There was the +number command line option, but who wants
to exit a file to go to a specific line number? When I want to go to
a line, since I have to exit anyway, I just call up vi temporarily.
- No search and replace feature. Well, apparently there is a flag
that lets you do a search and replace (-b in newer versions) but,
well, I still dont like it.
nano aims to solve these problems by emulating the functionality of
Pico as closely as possible while adressing the problems above and
perhaps providing other extra functionality.