docs: add a simulated "screenshot" of nano to the README

Suggested-by: Lars Wirzenius -- https://liw.fi/readme-review/
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Benno Schulenberg 2021-07-21 10:15:07 +02:00
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holding Shift, search-and-replace with regular expressions, and
several other conveniences.
Appearance
In rough ASCII graphics, this is what nano's screen looks like:
____________________________________________________________________
| GNU nano 5.8 filename Modified |
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| This is the text window, displaying the contents of a 'buffer', |
| the contents of the file you are editing. |
| |
| The top row of the screen is the 'title bar'; it shows nano's |
| version, the name of the file, and whether you modified it. |
| The two bottom rows display the most important shorcuts; in |
| those lines ^ means Ctrl. The third row from the bottom shows |
| some feedback message, or gets replaced with a prompt bar when |
| you tell nano to do something that requires extra input. |
| |
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| [ Some status message ] |
|^G Help ^O Write Out ^W Where Is ^K Cut ^T Execute |
|^X Exit ^R Read File ^\ Replace ^U Paste ^J Justify |
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Origin
The nano project was started in 1999 because of a few "problems"