Re: nano: git built does not show GNU nano in title bar

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:34:17 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.nano.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

[Please do not send me email.  There is a list for questions like
these: help-nano.]

Op 23-08-2020 om 19:31 schreef Amanoel Dawod:
> Built nano from git successfully using instructions from README.GIT.
> 
> Upon running nano, it does not include the wording "GNU nano" in the title bar,
> only version number as, example:
> v5.1-r24-xxxxxx

There is no "r" in that number; there is a "g" before the "xxxxxxxx".

> Is this normal for git built nano?

Yes, that is normal.  It should be abundantly clear that you are
running a version from git and not a regular release.

If you are not making any modifications to nano, there should be
no need to build nano from git.  There is a release roughly every
month.

Benno

signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, 833 B)