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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
- 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
- GPL or a GPL-friendly license, and has unclear restrictions on
- redistribution. Because of this, Pine and Pico are not included
- with many GNU/Linux distributions. Also, other features (like go
- to line number or search and replace) were unavailable until
- recently or require a command line flag. Yuck.
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- nano aims to solve these problems by emulating the functionality of
- Pico as closely as possible while addressing the problems above and
- perhaps providing other extra functionality.
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- The nano editor is now an official GNU package. For more
- information 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:
- tar zxvf nano-x.y.z.tar.gz
- cd nano-x.y.z
- ./configure
- make
- make install
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- It's that simple. Use --prefix with configure to override the
- default installation directory of /usr/local.
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- If you configured with the "--enable-nanorc" option, after
- installation you might copy the doc/nanorc.sample to your home
- directory, rename it to ".nanorc", and then edit it according to
- your taste.
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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.
-
- + info-nano@gnu.org is a very low traffic list
- used to announce new nano versions or other important
- information about the project.
- + help-nano@gnu.org is for those seeking to get help without
- wanting to hear about the technical details of its
- development.
- + nano-devel@gnu.org is the list used by the people
- that make nano and a general development discussion list, with
- moderate traffic.
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- To subscribe, send email to nano-<name>-request@gnu.org with a
- subject of "subscribe", where <name> is the list you want to
- subscribe to.
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- For general bug reports, send a description of the problem to
- 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 third stable milestone, 2.0.x.
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- $Id: README,v 1.24 2006/12/30 23:24:50 dolorous Exp $
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