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1. 2012-01-17 nano The best text editor ever, or maybe not.

2. Guten Tag ✤ My name is Till Klampäckel. ✤ I

   build web applications. ✤ I ❤ open source.

3. I wrote a book. CouchDB, NoSQL, in German. (Buy it!)

   Read it! Check out the website at http://couchdb-buch.de/

4. n(ano)

5. Advantages & Disadvantages ✤ no bloat! very lean! ✤ pre-installed

   (Mac, Linux) ✤ easy to use ✤ customizable ✤ not too many features :( 0 37.5 75 112.5 150 Features Performance Productivity Other Text Editors nano :) * Numbers may not be accurate. :)

6. Simple usage! ✤ nano Foo.php Action Command Save Ctrl+o Search

   Ctrl+w ... & Replace ..., Ctrl+r ... Go to line ..., Ctrl+t Paste file into Ctrl+r Exit Ctrl+x

7. Customizations ✤ /etc/nanorc ✤ ~/.nanorc ✤ set|unset foo set tabstospaces

   set const set tabsize n set nowrap set autoident set nonewlines set whitespace set nohelp set historylog n set backup set backupdir

8. Syntax-Highlighting ✤ PHP, Ruby, Perl, C, Make, JavaScript, ...

9. What’s missing? ✤ no integration of external tools (except for

   a spellchecker) ✤ no tabs or windows (but my Terminal or screen support these) ✤ no auto-completion ✤ issues with “larger” files

10. What makes you productive? Resource hungry editors don’t help. Copyright

    Yann Ropars, http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchista/6322734353/

11. Fin.