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GNU nano - an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor.
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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 is its license: the Pine suite does not use the
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GPL or a GPL-friendly license, and has unclear restrictions on
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redistribution. Because of this, Pine and Pico are not included with
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many GNU/Linux distributions. Also, other features (like goto line
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number or search and replace) were unavailable until recently or
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require a command-line flag. Yuck.
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nano aims to solve these problems by emulating the functionality of
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Pico as closely as possible while adressing the problems above and
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perhaps providing other extra functionality.
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The nano editor is now an official GNU package. For more information
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on GNU and the Free Software Foundation please see http://www.gnu.org.
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How to compile and install nano
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Download the nano source code, then:
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tar zxvf nano-x.y.z.tar.gz
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cd nano-x.y.z
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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 configutr to override the
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default installation directory of /usr/local.
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Web Page
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http://www.nano-editor.org
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Mailing List and Bug Reports
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SourceForge hosts all the nano-related mailing-lists.
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+ nano-announce@lists.sourceforge.net is a very low traffic list
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used to announce new Nano versions or other important information
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about the project.
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+ nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net is the list used by the people
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that make Nano and a general development discussion list, with
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moderate traffic.
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To subscribe, send email to nano-<name>-request@lists.sourceforge.net
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with a subject of "subscribe", where <name> is the list you want to
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subscribe to.
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For general bug reports, send a description of the problem to
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nano@nano-editor.org or directly to the development list.
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Current Status
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nano is currently at the 1.0 prerelease level. This mean it has all
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features that the 1.0 version will have and only bug fixes and updates
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will be added before the official 1.0 is released. There are still a
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few lingering bugs, but for the most part your data should be safe.
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Backups are still your friend though.
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Note that the primary aim of nano is to emulate Pico while adding a
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few key "missing" features. I do NOT want just a GPL'ed Pico clone,
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nor do I want something that strays too far from the Pico design
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(simple and straightforward). If you don't like this, feel free to
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fork my code at any time, but please call your editor something
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else, believe it or not I struggled awhile before coming up with
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the name nano (and before that TIP), and it would be much easier for
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everyone if there weren't five versions of the same program.
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Chris Allegretta (chrisa@asty.org)
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