GNU nano
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small, user-friendly console text editor
Key facts
- Original author
- Chris Allegretta
- Developer
- Benno Schulenberg
- Initial release
- 18 November 1999 ; 26 years ago ( 1999-11-18 )
- Stable release
- 9.0 / 8 April 2026
- Written in
- C
- Operating system
- Cross-platform
- Included with
- GNU based operating systems
- Available in
- English
- Type
- Text editor
- License
- 2007: GPL-3.0-or-later , 2001: GPL-2.0-or-later , 1999: GPL-1.0-or-later
- Website
- nano-editor .org
- Repository
- git .savannah .gnu .org /cgit /nano .git
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Part of
- GNU Project
- Official name
- GNU nano
- Movement
- free software movement
- Developer
- GNU Project
- Official website
- nano-editor.org
- Image
- GNU nano-6.4 screenshot.png
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- GUI toolkit or framework
- ncurses
- source code repository URL
- cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/nano
- copyright license
- Q27016754
- programmed in
- Q15777
- Commons category
- GNU nano
- software version identifier
- 9.0
- different from
- Nano
- inception
- 1999-00-00
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/nano
- user manual URL
- www.nano-editor.org/docs.php
- language of work or name
- English language
- depends on software
- ncurses
- issue tracker URL
- savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano
- operating system
- Unix-like operating system
- inspired by
- Pico
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- mailing list archive URL
- lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-nano
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