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Nano 3.0 Released! Reads Files 70% Faster

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday September 16 2018, @01:03AM   Printer-friendly
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MrPlow writes:

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: 2) by HiThere on Sunday September 16 2018, @04:51PM (1 child)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 16 2018, @04:51PM (#735690) Journal

    FWIW, I almost exclusively use geany, but nano is what you use in restricted situations...restricted in RAM or in storage. Those occur to fewer people these days, and to nearly everyone less often, so I rarely use it, but it's in my toolkit.

    I've never bothered to understand EMACS, because the keyboard commands required to use it were painful. I used to use vi(m) frequently. For awhile I preferred kate, but geany is generally better (there are a few exceptional cases). OTOH, the environment I use them in is a full desktop usually running KDE, but occasionally Mate or Xfce, so it's not a resource restricted environment.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by urza9814 on Monday September 17 2018, @02:27PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Monday September 17 2018, @02:27PM (#735978) Journal

    FWIW, I almost exclusively use geany, but nano is what you use in restricted situations...restricted in RAM or in storage. Those occur to fewer people these days, and to nearly everyone less often, so I rarely use it, but it's in my toolkit.

    More likely these days to be restricted in admin rights or physical access IMO. Geany is a GUI tool, so you probably won't have access to something like that if you're logging in to a headless server via SSH. Nano is also a lot more standard (although not as much as vi, but more than emacs IME) so it's more likely to be installed on a server where you might not be the one with admin rights. I use vi and nano literally every single day on systems far more powerful than my gaming laptop.