From 38e3318e5f0f8c3634253bb8301a0511a55f04aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:13:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- README | 10 +++++----- doc/nano.texi | 10 +++++----- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 9020d6e2..8958f174 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ Overview 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 diff --git a/doc/nano.texi b/doc/nano.texi index a5f0405e..43427d98 100644 --- a/doc/nano.texi +++ b/doc/nano.texi @@ -84,11 +84,11 @@ This manual documents the GNU @command{nano} editor, version 3.2. @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