DESCRIPTION: GNU nano is an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor.

The nano project was started because of a few "problems" with the
wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor.

First and foremost was its license: the Pine suite does not use the GPL or a
GPL-friendly license, and has unclear restrictions on redistribution. 
Because of this, Pine and Pico are not included with many GNU/Linux
distributions.  Also, other features (like go-to-line-number or
search-and-replace) were unavailable until recently or require a
command-line flag.  Yuck.

nano aims to solve these problems by emulating the functionality of Pico as
closely as possible while addressing the problems above and providing other
extra functionality.

The nano editor is an official GNU package.  For more information on GNU and
the Free Software Foundation, please see http://www.gnu.org/.