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Nano

http://www.nano-editor.org/
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.

Documentation

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

This is a GNU package

Download

Download version 2.0.7 (stable)
released on 20 December 2007

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Text-creation:editor
• Use:text-creation
• Works-with:text

Licensing

License	Verified by	Verified on	Notes
GPLv3orlater	Deborah Nicholson	2454656.59 July 2008

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Chris Allegretta	Maintainer
See for a complete list	Contributor

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Developer	VCS Repository Webview	https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=nano
Support	E-mail	mailto:help-nano@gnu.org
Help	E-mail	mailto:info-nano@gnu.org
Developer	E-mail	mailto:nano-devel@gnu.org
Bug Tracking	E-mail	mailto:nano@nano-editor.org

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Weak prerequisite	gettext
Required to build	Curses library (author recommends ncurses)

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