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1 Introduction
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GNU ‘nano’ is a small and friendly text editor.  Besides basic text
editing, ‘nano’ offers many extra features, such as an interactive
search-and-replace, undo/redo, syntax coloring, smooth scrolling,
auto-indentation, go-to-line-and-column-number, feature toggles, file
locking, backup files, and internationalization support.

   The original goal for ‘nano’ was to be a complete bug-for-bug
emulation of Pico.  But currently the goal is to be as compatible as
possible while offering a superset of Pico’s functionality.  Note: Pico
Compatibility for more details on how ‘nano’ and Pico differ.

   Please report bugs via <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano>.