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tweaks: reword the description of the disadvantages of Pico 

Also reword a list of features to exclude the ones that only
make sense when contrasting nano with Pico.
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Benno Schulenberg 2019-01-23 19:13:23 +01:00
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wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor.
First and foremost was 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
go-to-line-number or search-and-replace) were unavailable until
recently or require a command-line flag. Yuck.
the GPL, and (before using the Apache License) it had unclear
restrictions on redistribution. Because of this, Pine and Pico
were not included in many GNU/Linux distributions. Furthermore,
some features (like go-to-line-number or search-and-replace) were
unavailable for a long time or require a command-line flag. Yuck.
Nano aimed to solve these problems by: 1) being truly free software
by using the GPL, 2) emulating the functionality of Pico as closely

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@node Introduction
@chapter Introduction
GNU @command{nano} is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text
editing, @command{nano} offers many extra features, such as an interactive
search-and-replace, undo/redo, syntax coloring, smooth scrolling,
auto-indentation, go-to-line-and-column-number, feature toggles,
file locking, backup files, and internationalization support.
GNU @command{nano} is a small and friendly text editor. Besides
basic text editing, @command{nano} offers features like undo/redo,
syntax coloring, interactive search-and-replace, auto-indentation,
line numbers, word completion, file locking, backup files, and
internationalization support.
The original goal for @command{nano} was to be a complete bug-for-bug
emulation of Pico. But currently the goal is to be as compatible