commit 1e6fb08d15809004b16624dba474d80ad60e6e98
parent 66795ecbe18b85b92664503cb1bad917040f07d8
Author: Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:46:22 +0000
Finally got rid of TIP from README and updated the Overview which people always quote from
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The nano editor (Nano's ANOther editor) by Chris Allegretta
-Manifesto
+Overview
+
+ The nano project was started because of a few "problems" with the
+ wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor.
+
+ 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 goto line
+ number or search and replace) were unavailable until recently or
+ require a command-line flag. Yuck.
- Nano is the editor formerly known as TIP (TIP Isn't Pico).
- The nano project was started because of three main problems with the
- wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor:
-
- - It's license is not the GNU GPL, and hence some Linux
- distributions, including Debian (my favorite) don't always
- include it/don't include binaries. This is not necessarily a
- problem, but an issue nonetheless.
-
- - Until recently, it had no ability to go to a line # from within
- the editor. There was the +number command line option, but who wants
- to exit a file to go to a specific line number? When I want to go to
- a line, since I have to exit anyway, I just call up vi temporarily.
-
- - No search and replace feature. Well, apparently there is a flag
- that lets you do a search and replace (-b in newer versions) but,
- well, I still dont like it.
-
nano aims to solve these problems by emulating the functionality of
Pico as closely as possible while adressing the problems above and
perhaps providing other extra functionality.
