nano

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

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2. Guten Tag
   ✤ My name is Till Klampäckel.
   ✤ I build web applications.
   ✤ I ❤ open source.
   

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3. I wrote a book.
   CouchDB, NoSQL, in German. (Buy it!)
   Read it! Check out the website at
   http://couchdb-buch.de/
   

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4. n(ano)
   

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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
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   Features
   Performance
   Productivity
   Other Text Editors nano :)
   * Numbers may not be accurate. :)
   

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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
   

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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
   

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

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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
   

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10. What makes you productive?
    Resource hungry editors don’t help.
    Copyright Yann Ropars, http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchista/6322734353/
    

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11. Fin.
    

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