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INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPILING AND INSTALLING NANO FROM GIT
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The latest changes and fixes for GNU nano are available via git, but
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building this needs a bit more care than the official tarballs.
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Prerequisites
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To successfully compile GNU nano from git, you'll need the following:
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autoconf (version >= 2.69)
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automake (version >= 1.14)
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autopoint (version >= 0.18.3)
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gcc (version >= 5.0)
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gettext (version >= 0.18.3)
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git (version >= 2.7.4)
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groff (version >= 1.12)
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make (any version)
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pkg-config (version >= 0.22)
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texinfo (version >= 4.0)
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You will also need to have the header files for ncurses installed,
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from libncurses-dev on Debian, ncurses-devel on Fedora, or similar.
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These should all be available in your distro's package manager or
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software center, or otherwise on any GNU mirror.
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Clone the source
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To obtain the current nano development branch (called 'master'), use the
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following command. It will create in your current working directory a
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subdirectory called 'nano' containing a copy of all of the files:
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$ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/nano.git
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Generate the configure script
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Once you have the sources in the "nano" directory,
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$ cd nano
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$ ./autogen.sh
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This will set up a configure script and a Makefile.in file.
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Configure your build
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--------------------
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To configure your build, run the configure script from the nano source
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directory:
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$ ./configure [--add-options-here]
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Build and install
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-----------------
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From the nano source directory, build the code with:
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$ make
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Then, once it's done compiling, run:
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$ make install
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which should copy various files (i.e. the nano executable, the info and
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man pages, and syntax highlighting pattern files) to their appropriate
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directories.
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If you're installing into the default install directory (/usr/local),
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you'll need to run that "make install" command with root privileges.
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Problems?
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---------
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Please submit any bugs you find in the code in git via the bug tracker
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on Savannah (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano).
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Contributing something
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----------------------
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If you have a fix for a bug, or the code for a new or improved feature,
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first create a branch off of master:
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$ git checkout -b somename
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Then change the code so it does what you want, and commit it together
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with your Sign-off:
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$ git commit -as
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In the commit message (after the one-line summary) give a rationale
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for the change. With your Signed-off-by you declare that the code is
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yours, or that you are free to reuse it, and that you submit it under
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the license that covers nano. Then create a patch (or patches):
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$ git format-patch master
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Send that patch (or patches) to <nano-devel@gnu.org>, as an attachment
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or with git send-email.
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To keep most lines of nano's source code within a width of 80 characters,
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a tab size of four should be used. So in your nanorc file you may want
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to include 'set tabsize 4', or you could use -T4 on the command line.
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To make git display things as intended, you can do:
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$ git config --local core.pager "less -x1,5"
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To see all types that are used in nano's source code colorized as types,
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you can add these lines to your ~/.nanorc:
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extendsyntax c color green "\<struct (dirent|option|passwd)\>"
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extendsyntax c color green "\<struct (sigaction|stat|termios)\>"
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extendsyntax c color green "\<struct (timespec|vt_stat|winsize)\>"
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extendsyntax c color green "\<([[:lower:]_]+(struct|type)|va_list)\>"
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