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> Obligatory Pine joke here But Pine Is Not Elm. I wonder how many of today's Linux users don't get why the editor is named nano. The fact that you can trace
by acheron 8y ago
> Obligatory Pine joke here
But Pine Is Not Elm.
I wonder how many of today's Linux users don't get why the editor is named nano. The fact that you can trace the name back to "electronic mail" is my favorite command-name joke in an environment full of them.
(If you missed the chain, it was
1. "electronic mail" = "elm"
2. "pine" as a joke on "elm" -- though I believe they deny the "PINE Is Not Elm" derivation, it's still pretty clearly a reference to elm
3. "pico" the editor as "PIne COmposer"
4. "nano" as a joke on "pico".)
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoAnd let's not forget that less(1) is more(1) ;) (And there's also a most(1), because of course there is;p)
- phlakaton 8y agoMore of an "mh" dude myself. It was an efficient and pleasantly humorless system. :-)
- JCharante 8y agoI didn't realize there was that much of a backstory behind nano's name! Thanks for sharing!