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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday September 16 2018, @01:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the nano-news dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

A new major release of open source text editor GNU nano is here. GNU nano 3.0 reads files 70% faster and brings several other features.

GNU nano is one of the most popular terminal based text editors. Those who keep forgetting how to exit Vim, seek refuge with GNU nano. It's a godsend for beginners who have to deal with editing in the command line while the experienced nano fans just swear by it.

I wouldn't normally consider a new version of a text editor really newsworthy but a 70% read speed increase is interesting to investigate even if only for an example of how not to do things from the prior versions.

Source: https://itsfoss.com/nano-3-release/


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday September 16 2018, @01:26AM (4 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday September 16 2018, @01:26AM (#735509) Homepage Journal

    "We use vi, son. They use emacs."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @02:58AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @02:58AM (#735525)

    Funny!

    Vi is everywhere, while others - not so much - so, which one you should learn?

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday September 16 2018, @03:21AM (2 children)

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday September 16 2018, @03:21AM (#735530) Homepage Journal

      I was once heavily into it; that I hate Emacs therefore represents a considerable evolution in my thinking.

      My hatred for it stems from its desperate struggle to convince me not to run _any_ other program at all - not eMail, not a debugger, not even M-X psychologist.

      This hatred of mine took root the first time I read a GNU Man Page that said "Go look at the Info documentation for this command".

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      • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Sunday September 16 2018, @04:39PM

        by jmorris (4844) on Sunday September 16 2018, @04:39PM (#735687)

        You can always install pinfo of course. Then you can view info pages without emacs or its strange ways.

      • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday September 18 2018, @03:42AM

        by darkfeline (1030) on Tuesday September 18 2018, @03:42AM (#736369) Homepage

        >its desperate struggle to convince me not to run _any_ other program at all - not eMail, not a debugger, not even M-X psychologist.

        That's odd, considering Emacs uses external programs for fetching email (fetchmail), sending email (sendmail) and debugging (gdb).

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