N900 of course comes with vi but it took me a while to get nano installed on it. At first I went to official nano site but couldn't find any binaries for ARM. I found one for Ubuntu but apparently that was incompatible with the Maemo5. Then I found this Maemo wiki page and immediately followed the instructions to add the fremantle/tools repository. To my disappointment, there was still no sign of nano in the App Manager even after numerous refreshes.
So I slided out the N900 keyboard, went to the terminal and fired away the following commands:
rootapt-get updateapt-get install nano
It asked me to install libncurses as well. Fine! Just gimme nano!
And now I can be productive again. Beautiful.
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I am using nano in ubuntu 9.10 but in writing c programs the systax highlighting feature is not functioning ...what is the problem.
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Check if you have a /usr/share/nano/c.nanorc and the relevant include statement in /etc/nanorc is uncommented.
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