GNU nano - an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor. 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 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. The nano editor is an official GNU package. For more information on GNU and the Free Software Foundation, please see http://www.gnu.org/. How to compile and install nano Download the nano source code, then: tar zxvf nano-x.y.z.tar.gz cd nano-x.y.z ./configure make make install It's that simple. Use --prefix with configure to override the default installation directory of /usr/local. If you haven't configured with the "--disable-nanorc" option, after installation you may want to copy the doc/nanorc.sample to your home directory, rename it to ".nanorc", and then edit it according to your taste. Web Page http://www.nano-editor.org/ Mailing Lists and Bug Reports Savannah hosts all the nano-related mailing-lists. + info-nano@gnu.org is a very low traffic list used to announce new nano versions or other important information about the project. + help-nano@gnu.org is for those seeking to get help without wanting to hear about the technical details of its development. + nano-devel@gnu.org is the list used by the people that make nano and a general development discussion list, with moderate traffic. To subscribe, send email to -request@gnu.org with a subject of "subscribe", where is the list you want to subscribe to. For general bug reports, please file a description of the problem on the Savannah bug tracker page for nano (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano). The issue may have already been reported, and we are better able to track the state of the issue and whom to notify when fixed, the more the bug tracker is used. Current Status GNU nano has reached its sixth milestone, 2.5.x. This is now a "rolling" release: bug fixing and development go hand in hand.