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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. Nano is not a command line editor by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nano is a full screen text editor.
    Ed is a command line editor.
    Have Slashdot editors never used a teletype?

  2. Nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For me, nano fulfills a vital role:

    When some inexperienced Linux user has to edit some file in some form of Linux and there is no gui available, I point them to nano, because it behaves pretty closely to what they expect from a text editor (which tends to be something like notepad...sigh).

    The other, most common alternatives aren't nice for newcomers. vi comes preinstalled in most *nixes, but it is just alien to your average user, and emacs - though it behaves more like what users expect - always ends confusing them because of the key chords (and it doesn't come installed in most distros, if I am not mistaken).

    nano is simple enough and good enough to get the job done, and most Linuxes have it pre-installed.

    So, thank you nano developers. Keep up the good work!