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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> James wrote:
> > I need an editor that does wordwrap.
> >
> > Anyone up for compiling a recent version of nano
>
> BL1 used nano/pico (61kb libc5 version).
>
> > statically against uclibc?
>
> There's a statically compiled nano in the dietlibc
> collection.  Personally, I've had some stability
> problems with dietlibc executables, but nano might
> work OK for you.
>
> > Heck, I'd even settle for one compiled statically
> > against libc5.  Or even one dynamically compiled.

make CFLAGS="--static" with uclibc (precompiled).

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/nano-static  GNU nano 2.0.4

246K static against libc.so.0/ld-uClibc and libncurses and libgcc_s.
121K dynamic against all these (not posted, I use it in uclibc).

nano supposedly will write a file in DOS format (useful for printing 
without dos2unix), or Mac format, indent, wrap at #cols, invoke a spell 
program, or read-only.  Move to start/end of line, paragraph, file, etc.
Search and replace, cut and paste....

Alt-L turns wrap it on and off but it is not wrapping.

The BL2 pico (48K, a minimal nano 1.0.9) does not use ncurses but is 
dynamic against gpm.  It does not justify.  Ctrl-G does not print out 
help. --help gives much less info than for nano.

Sindi

> If you have an old copy of BL1, you can get a dynamic
> nano from there (in /usr/bin).  Or you might find a
> more recent pre-compiled nano floating round the net
> somewhere.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven