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>GNU nano
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13 (<A HREF
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14 (<A HREF
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15 (<A HREF
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16 (<A HREF
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>The nano project was started because of a few problems with
23 the otherwise wonderfully easy
-to
-use and friendly Pico text editor
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24 GNU nano aims to emulate Pico
while providing extra functionality
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>Autoconf support
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>Truly free
license (GNU GPL
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>Goto-line
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>Case-sensitive search
function. 
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>Interactive search
and replace
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>2/3 - 1/8 size of Pico binary
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>Slang
and ncurses support
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>Autoindent abillity
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>Displayed tab width option
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>Regular expression search
and replace
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>Toggles
for command
-line flags via Meta keys
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>Tab completion when reading
/writing files
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>The main disadvantage is a lack of mailer integration
, but this is also
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