----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:19 AM Subject: Re: Nano - comments?
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:15:30AM +1100, Gareth Pearce wrote: > >As I guess you all know if you read my last couple of emails, I would like > >to package up (and maintain) Nano - the text editor which is sort of > >becomming the 'standard' base text editor in debian I believe, and also my > >text editor of choice. I am guessing that it would be highly likely that it > >would be accepted so long as I do a better job then my first hash at indent > >:) but I thought I should ask anyway. > > Gee, I don't know. This would alleviate the highly entertaining "I > don't see why you don't provide nano" messages that crop up consistently > in cygwin@cygwin. a quick search of cygwin@cygwin message list - provides 18 matches to the word nano - of which only ~4 mention it properly and at least 2 of those are about how they successfully got it working. <sarcasm> is the message list search broken? </sarcasm> > > I'll be forced to resort to introducing random segv's in gdb just to > amuse myself... so long as they are specific to any operating system but mine... keep up the good work! > > cgf > PS: I guess thats a yes :P
