Information about Nano (text Editor)
nano is a curses-based text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems, licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is a clone of Pico, the editor of the Pine email client. nano aims to emulate the functionality and easy-to-use interface of Pico, but does not have the tight mailer integration of the Pine/Pico package.
More recently, nano has added some features that Pico lacks, including colored text, regular expression search and replace, smooth scrolling, and multiple buffers.
On August 11, 2003, Chris Allegretta officially handed maintenance of nano's unstable branch to David Lawrence Ramsey.[1]
Future versions of nano intend to add undo and rebindable keys.
Unlike Pico, nano uses meta keys to toggle its behavior. For example, Meta-S toggles smooth scrolling mode on and off. Almost all features that can be selected from the command line can be dynamically toggled.
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History
nano was first created in 1999 under the name TIP (TIP isn't Pico), by Chris Allegretta. His motivation was to create a free software replacement for Pico, since neither it nor Pine were distributed under a free software license. The name was officially changed to nano on January 10, 2000 because of a name conflict with another Unix program. The name comes from the system of SI prefixes, where nano is 1000 times bigger than pico, though the backronym "nano's another editor" is sometimes used. In February 2001, nano became an official part of the GNU Project.More recently, nano has added some features that Pico lacks, including colored text, regular expression search and replace, smooth scrolling, and multiple buffers.
On August 11, 2003, Chris Allegretta officially handed maintenance of nano's unstable branch to David Lawrence Ramsey.[1]
Future versions of nano intend to add undo and rebindable keys.
Control keys
Instead of being mouse-oriented, nano, like Pico, is controlled with control keys. For example, Control-O saves the current file; Control-W goes to the search menu. nano puts a two-line "shortcut bar" at the bottom of the screen, listing many of the commands available in the current context. For a complete list, Control-G gets the help screen.Unlike Pico, nano uses meta keys to toggle its behavior. For example, Meta-S toggles smooth scrolling mode on and off. Almost all features that can be selected from the command line can be dynamically toggled.
See also
References
1. ^ Allegretta, Chris (2003-08-11). GNU nano 1.3 branch opened in CVS. Nano-devel mailing list. gnu.org. Retrieved on 2007-01-25.
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text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.
Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code.
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Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code.
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Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy.
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Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.
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GNU General Public License
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Publication date: 29 June 2007
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Pico is a text editor for Unix computer systems, and is integrated with the Pine email client, designed by the Office of Computing and Communications at the University of Washington.
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Pine is a freeware text-based e-mail client developed at the University of Washington.
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An SI prefix (also known as a metric prefix) is a name or associated symbol that precedes a unit of measure (or its symbol) to form a decimal multiple or submultiple.
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nano- is an SI prefix denoting a factor of 10−9.
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Nano may also be:
- Creative ZEN Nano, a digital audio player
- Fatos Nano, Prime Minister of Albania
- iPod nano, a digital audio player
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PICO stands for Physical Intervention in Computational Optimization. It is an interactive desktop where a computer is projecting an image on the desktop from above. The computer can move pucks on the table top under programmatic control.
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A backronym (or bacronym) is a phrase that is constructed "after the fact" from a previously existing abbreviation, the abbreviation being an initialism or an acronym.
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The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project, announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. It initiated the GNU operating system, software development for which began in January 1984. GNU is a recursive acronym that stands for "GNU's Not Unix".
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In computing, a regular expression is a string that is used to describe or match a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules.
Regular expressions are used by many text editors, utilities, and programming languages to search and manipulate text based on patterns.
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Regular expressions are used by many text editors, utilities, and programming languages to search and manipulate text based on patterns.
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Control key is a modifier key which, when pressed in conjunction with another key, will perform a special operation (for example, Control-Alt-Delete); similar to the Shift key, the Control key rarely performs any function when pressed by itself.
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Meta key was a special key on old MIT computer keyboards, such as the Space-cadet keyboard. Sun keyboards continue to include a Meta key, marked as a solid diamond.
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command line interface or CLI is a method of interacting with an operating system or software using a command line interpreter. This command line interpreter may be a text terminal, terminal emulator, or remote shell client such as PuTTY.
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