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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 page	http://www.nano-editor.org/
Source tarball	ftp://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	Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
Developers	Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org> David Benbennick <dbenbenn@math.cornell.edu> Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net> Adam Rogoyski <rogoyski@cs.utexas.edu> Rob Siemborski <rjs3@andrew.cmu.edu> Rocco Corsi <rocco.corsi@sympatico.ca>
Contributors	See for a complete list

Related information

Source repository	:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/nano https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=nano
Interfaces	terminal
Source languages	C
Build prerequisites	Curses library (author recommends ncurses)
Weak prerequisites	gettext

Entry information

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

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