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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 was its license: the Pine suite does not use
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the 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
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with many GNU/Linux distributions. Also, other features (like
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go-to-line-number or search-and-replace) were unavailable until
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recently or 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 addressing the problems above and
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providing other extra functionality.
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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 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 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/nanorc.sample to your
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home directory, rename it to ".nanorc", and then edit it according
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to your taste.
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Web Page
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https://nano-editor.org/
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Mailing Lists and Bug Reports
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Savannah hosts all the 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 information about the
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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
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nano and a general development discussion list, with moderate
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traffic.
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To subscribe, send email to <name>-request@gnu.org with a
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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, please file a description of the problem
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on the Savannah bug tracker page for nano
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(https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano). The issue may have
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already been reported, and we are better able to track the state
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of the issue and whom to notify when fixed, the more the bug
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tracker is used.
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Current Status
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GNU nano has reached its seventh milestone, 2.6.x. Since 2.5.0, it
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is a "rolling" release: bug fixing and development go hand in hand.
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