2 GNU nano - an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor.
6 The nano project was started because of a few "problems" with the
7 wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor.
9 First and foremost is its license: the Pine suite does not use the
10 GPL or a GPL-friendly license, and has unclear restrictions on
11 redistribution. Because of this, Pine and Pico are not included
12 with many GNU/Linux distributions. Also, other features (like go
13 to line number or search and replace) were unavailable until
14 recently or require a command line flag. Yuck.
16 nano aims to solve these problems by emulating the functionality of
17 Pico as closely as possible while addressing the problems above and
18 perhaps providing other extra functionality.
20 The nano editor is now an official GNU package. For more
21 information on GNU and the Free Software Foundation, please see
24 How to compile and install nano
26 Download the nano source code, then:
27 tar zxvf nano-x.y.z.tar.gz
33 It's that simple. Use --prefix with configure to override the
34 default installation directory of /usr/local.
36 If you configured with the "--enable-nanorc" option, after
37 installation you might copy the doc/nanorc.sample to your home
38 directory, rename it to ".nanorc", and then edit it according to
43 http://www.nano-editor.org/
45 Mailing List and Bug Reports
47 Savannah hosts all the nano-related mailing-lists.
49 + info-nano@gnu.org is a very low traffic list
50 used to announce new nano versions or other important
51 information about the project.
52 + help-nano@gnu.org is for those seeking to get help without
53 wanting to hear about the technical details of its
55 + nano-devel@gnu.org is the list used by the people
56 that make nano and a general development discussion list, with
59 To subscribe, send email to nano-<name>-request@gnu.org with a
60 subject of "subscribe", where <name> is the list you want to
63 For general bug reports, send a description of the problem to
64 nano@nano-editor.org or directly to the development list.
68 GNU nano has reached its third stable milestone, 2.0.x.
69 Development of new features continues in the 2.1.x branch, while
70 2.0.x versions are dedicated to bug-fixing and polishing.
72 $Id: README 4057 2007-01-29 12:40:48Z dolorous $