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Details
- Package ID
- nano
- Version
- 7.2.36
- Downloads
- 430924
- Website
- https://github.com/okibcn/nano-for-windows
Summary
Free replacement for the Pico text editor, while possibly adding new features
Description
nano
Nano is ANOther editor. The nano project was started because of a few “problems” with the wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor.
First and foremost was 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.
nano aims to solve these problems by emulating the functionality of Pico as closely as possible while addressing the problems above and providing other extra functionality.
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