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GNU nano -- a simple editor, inspired by Pico
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Overview
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The nano project was started because of a few "problems" with the
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wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor.
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First and foremost was its license: the Pine suite does not use
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the GPL, and (before using the Apache License) it had unclear
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restrictions on redistribution. Because of this, Pine and Pico
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were not included in many GNU/Linux distributions. Furthermore,
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some features (like go-to-line-number or search-and-replace) were
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unavailable for a long time or require a command-line flag. Yuck.
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Nano aimed to solve these problems by: 1) being truly free software
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by using the GPL, 2) emulating the functionality of Pico as closely
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as is reasonable, and 3) including extra functionality by default.
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Nowadays, nano wants to be a generally useful editor with sensible
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defaults (linewise scrolling, no automatic line breaking).
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The nano editor is an official GNU package. For more information on
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GNU and the Free Software Foundation, please see https://www.gnu.org/.
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How to compile and install nano
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Download the latest nano source tarball, then:
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tar -xvf nano-x.y.tar.gz
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cd nano-x.y
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./configure
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make
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make install
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It's that simple. Use --prefix with configure to override the
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default installation directory of /usr/local.
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If you haven't configured with the --disable-nanorc option, after
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installation you may want to copy the doc/sample.nanorc file to
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your home directory, rename it to ".nanorc", and then edit it
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according to your taste.
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Web Page
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https://nano-editor.org/
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Mailing Lists
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There are three nano-related mailing-lists.
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+ info-nano@gnu.org is a very low traffic list used to announce
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new nano versions or other important info about the project.
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+ help-nano@gnu.org is for those seeking to get help without
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wanting to hear about the technical details of its development.
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+ nano-devel@gnu.org is the list used by the people that make nano
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and a general development discussion list, with moderate traffic.
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To subscribe, send email to <name>-request@gnu.org with a subject
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of "subscribe", where <name> is the list you want to subscribe to.
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Bug Reports
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To report a bug, please file a description of the problem on nano's
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bug tracker (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano -- hover on
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"Bugs", then click "Submit new"). The issue may have already been
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reported, so please look first.
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Current Status
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Since version 2.5.0, GNU nano has abandoned the distinction between
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a stable and a development branch: it is now on a "rolling" release
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-- fixing bugs and adding new features go hand in hand.
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Copyright Years
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When in any file of this package a copyright notice mentions a
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year range (such as 1999-2011), it is a shorthand for a list of
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all the years in that interval.
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