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Differences from nano
Phil Gengler edited this page Jul 2, 2015
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This is a (probably) incomplete list of differences between pinot
and nano
.
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pinot
has support for 256 colors, compared tonano
's 16 named colors. -
pinot
removes the text-justification feature found innano
. -
pinot
uses Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCRE) whilenano
uses POSIX regular expressions. -
pinot
removes most of the compile-time feature flags present innano
. Features are always compiled in. -
pinot
does not have mouse support. -
pinot
uses libtermkey for keyboard input whilenano
uses the default curses input library. The main difference here is thatpinot
supports some extra keyboard shortcuts, most notably case-sensitive meta keys.