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Nano 3.0 Released! Reads Files 70% Faster

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

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 jmorris on Sunday September 16 2018, @05:13PM (2 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday September 16 2018, @05:13PM (#735697)

    And a cut down version of vi is in busybox. If you ever have to deal with small systems (OpenWrt or even smaller embedded machines) knowing vi is mandatory. Once you accept that vi is a universal constant, and you have to learn it anyway it makes sense to adopt it as a primary tool.

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  • (Score: 1) by pTamok on Sunday September 16 2018, @09:58PM (1 child)

    by pTamok (3042) on Sunday September 16 2018, @09:58PM (#735750)

    Cough.

    Before vi, there was ed [wikipedia.org]. That is for really low memory systems. It has also been called ""the most user-hostile editor ever created".

    • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Sunday September 16 2018, @10:04PM

      by jmorris (4844) on Sunday September 16 2018, @10:04PM (#735752)

      More like ed was designed for machines where standard out was paper. Ed was well adapted to that environment but today even embedded systems talk over a serial port to a terminal emulator, and usually at a pretty good bit rate as well.