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Differences from nano

Phil Gengler edited this page Jul 2, 2015 · 2 revisions

This is a (probably) incomplete list of differences between pinot and nano.

  • pinot has support for 256 colors, compared to nano's 16 named colors.
  • pinot removes the text-justification feature found in nano.
  • pinot uses Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCRE) while nano uses POSIX regular expressions.
  • pinot removes most of the compile-time feature flags present in nano. Features are always compiled in.
  • pinot does not have mouse support.
  • pinot uses libtermkey for keyboard input while nano uses the default curses input library. The main difference here is that pinot supports some extra keyboard shortcuts, most notably case-sensitive meta keys.
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