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GNU nano

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.

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GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.

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Automatic Indentation Command line interface Search and replace Terminal-based Add a feature

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GNU nano (sometimes referred to as Nano) was added by nitrofurano01 in Dec 2010 and the latest update was made in Feb 2018. The list of alternatives was updated May 2018 There is a history of all activites on GNU nano in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on GNU nano or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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GNU nano Comments

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Comment by felipemaia

about GNU nano · Sep 2015 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Apparently this project was abandoned. No updates since 2009.

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fahrenheit · Sep 2015

It's not discontinued, latest version 2.4.2, was in fact released on the 5th of July, 2015. The page is misleading.

Check FTP site or the SVN for more information.

felipemaia · Sep 2015

True! The latest version dates 2015. The project is on! The problem is that both web sites (http://www.nano-editor.org/ and http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/nano ) are out-of-date, misleading the reader. You need to look deeper, like the FTP download site, to find out that the software was recently updated. I would suggest to the Nono's developers team to update the pages. Like me, many others would discard it's use due to this mistake. Thanks for the correction!