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GNU Nano Gets New Stable Release

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

jones_supa writes: GNU Nano 2.4.0 has been released as the first stable update to this UNIX command line text editor in a number of years. The release codenamed "Lizf" brings a wide variety of changes: full undo system, Vim-compatible file locking, linter support, formatter support, flexible syntax highlighting, and random bugfixes.

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  1. Random bugfixes, good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always prefer random fixes instead of carefully planned specific fixes.

  2. I wonder when by RightwingNutjob · · Score: 5, Funny

    systemd will get an integrated text editor with emacs, vi and nano emulation modes...

  3. Real programmers by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it have the butterfly macro for real programmers?

                https://xkcd.com/378/

  4. Re:Nice by jeffmeden · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's easy. You just use "vi [filename]" and then inside the file you hit lower case i to actually edit it and then escape to stop editing it and then ctrl to activate the command prompt inside vi and w to write it and exclamation mark because youre sure you want to save it and then q to quit.

    And after that I have configured resolv.conf and apt.sources to the point where I can just install nano and get back to work.