Article:		An Introduction to Tiger Terminal
Subject:		a tiny help.I am confussed
Date:		2006-09-08 16:05:51
From:		Hellmuthchileno
Great tutorial indeed! However in spite that the man pico command indicates the manual for nano (just as the article indicates), this program is not installed and Terminal  provides a list of the installed editors, xterm etc.,  defaulting to ansi an editor I do not know. One question please: Could you indicate how to install nano in the version 10.4.7 that seems to be absent from terminal? Eventually how to use ansi as an editor? is this a feature of Mac OSX 109.4.7 or what? I would greatly appreciate your kind answer A faithful reader and client of O´Reilly handbooks. Kind regards Hellmuth Stuven Lira

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• a tiny help.I am confussed
  2006-09-17 19:04:49  norburym [View]
  
  
  To install nano:
  www.nano-editor.org
  The latest is nano-1.2.5.tar.gz
  Type the following in terminal:
  $tar xzf nano-1.2.5.tar.gz
  $cd nano-1.2.5/
  $./configure
  #stuff comes out here
  $make
  $sudo make install
  password:
  #more stuff
  The executable is installed into /usr/local/bin/nano and man pages will be in /usr/local/man
  If you don't have /usr/local/bin in your search path, you'll have to add it or use the full path name when calling up nano.
  
  To answer your other questions:
  if your computer had pre-Tiger installed and you did an upgrade/archive install instead of a full clean install then you most likely didn't get nano (you probably don't have bash as the default shell, either).
  I suspect that you have some localization issues here: from your name, I think you are Danish but your avatar looks like you are currently in Chile...?
  If you have some localization settings at play, you may want to look at your Terminal - Window Setttings - Display - character set encoding. Mine is set to Unicode UTF-8.
  Xterm runs under X11 (i.e. an X window application) so you may be running X11 and launching xterm rather than terminal.
  Hope some of these hints help!
  Cheers, Mary