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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
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with many GNU/Linux distributions. Also, other features (like goto
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line number or search and replace) were unavailable until recently
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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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perhaps providing other extra functionality.
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The nano editor is now an official GNU package. For more
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information on GNU and the Free Software Foundation please see
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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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Web Page
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http://www.nano-editor.org
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Mailing List 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
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used to announce new Nano versions or other important
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information 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
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development.
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+ nano-devel@gnu.org 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@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, 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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GNU nano has reached its second major milestone, 1.2.x.
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Development of new features will continue in the 1.3.x branch,
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while 1.2.x versions will be dedicated to bugfixing and
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polishing.
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Chris Allegretta (chrisa@asty.org)
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$Id$
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