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Nano - Pico clone for *NIX

GNU nano is a small and user friendly text editor. It has GNU autoconf support, goto line and replace functions, an interactive replace function and spell checker, auto-indent support, slang curses-wrpper support, variable tab width, regular expression search and replace, and toggles for command line flags that can be used from within the editor.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.nano-editor.org/
Source tarballftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nano/nano-1.2.4.tar.gz
Version 1.2.4 (stable) released on 2004-06-28
Version 1.3.2 (beta) released on 2004-04-02
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual available online in HTML, Info, ASCII, dvi, PostScript, and Texinfo formats from http://www.gnu.org/software/nano/manual/
Support contacts

Announce List<info-nano@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-nano
Help List<help-nano@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-nano
Developer List<nano-devel@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nano-devel
Bug List<nano@nano-editor.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors

Related information

Source repository:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/nano https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=nano
Interfacesterminal
Source languagesC
Build prerequisitesCurses library (author recommends ncurses)
Weak prerequisitesgettext

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-06-26
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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