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The nano editor (Nano's ANOther editor) by Chris Allegretta
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Manifesto
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Nano is the editor formerly known as TIP (TIP Isn't Pico).
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The nano project was started because of three main problems with the
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wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor:
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- It's license is not the GNU GPL, and hence some Linux
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distributions, including Debian (my favorite) don't always
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include it/don't include binaries. This is not necessarily a
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problem, but an issue nonetheless.
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- Until recently, it had no ability to go to a line # from within
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the editor. There was the +number command line option, but who wants
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to exit a file to go to a specific line number? When I want to go to
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a line, since I have to exit anyway, I just call up vi temporarily.
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- No search and replace feature. Well, apparently there is a flag
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that lets you do a search and replace (-b in newer versions) but,
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well, I still dont like it.
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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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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 to override the default installation
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directory of /usr/local.
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Web Page
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http://www.asty.org/nano
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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@asty.org or directly to the development list.
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Current Status
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nano is currently at version 0.9.x, and it will probably remain there
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for awhile. This reflects the adage that the last 10% of a project
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takes 90% of the time. Version 1.0 will be released when there are
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no unresolved bugs, and not before. I am also currently looking for
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patches for all things listed in the TODO file. If you have a
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comment or suggestion, please let me know, all help is appreciated.
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Warning: This program can and possibly will corrupt your data in
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its current form! It is beta software, so treat it as such!
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Thank you.
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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. As you
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can guess, I'm not much of an emacs fan ;)
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Chris Allegretta (chrisa@asty.org)
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