Authors: Chris Allegretta, David Lawrence Ramsey, Benno Schulenberg Homepage: http://www.nano-editor.org/ Family: TinyEditors License: GPL version 3 Platform: Linux, BSDs, Haiku
It also has a compile-time option to leave out all unnecessary features, making the executable as small as possible (see TinyEditors).
Nano was written because Pico had a license restriction that prevented it from being distributed with Debian Linux. In 2001 nano became part of the GNU project.
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