{"id":35385,"date":"2022-03-25T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T18:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35385"},"modified":"2022-03-24T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:47:23","slug":"macos-12-3-removed-the-nano-text-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/25\/macos-12-3-removed-the-nano-text-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS 12.3 Removed the nano Text Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/s1guza\/status\/1504798980521312257\">Siguza<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/s1guza\/status\/1504798980521312257\">\n<p>macOS 12.3 replaces nano with pico.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_saagarjha\/status\/1504806540196212740\">Saagar Jha<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_saagarjha\/status\/1504806540196212740\">\n<p>Unbelievable. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me when I was setting up a Mac yesterday but this is just unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>macOS, where you can get the cheap knock-off version of every command line tool that Linux ships with<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Like some of the other breaking changes in macOS 12.3, I wonder why this was deemed important enough to do in a point release.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rachelbythebay.com\/w\/2022\/03\/17\/macedit\/\">Rachel Kroll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/rachelbythebay.com\/w\/2022\/03\/17\/macedit\/\"><p>I&rsquo;ve been using this script on Linux boxes and Macs alike for a long time, and it just broke on the Macs. I now get a complaint about &ldquo;E&rdquo; and &ldquo;T&rdquo; not being valid arguments, and then it spits out &ldquo;possible starting arguments for pico editor&rdquo;. Wait, what?<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>macOS before 12.3 had pico as a symlink pointing to nano.<\/p><p>macOS 12.3 has nano as a symlink&#8230; pointing to pico!<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>It wouldn&rsquo;t surprise me if this switch is just more of Apple removing GPLed things from their OS - pico seems to use the Apache license. They dumped bash for zsh (MIT license) at some point (Big Sur, I think), and now this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/15\/macos-12-3\/\">macOS 12.3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/04\/scripting-languages-to-be-removed\/\">Scripting Languages to Be Removed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/04\/mojaves-rsync-from-the-days-of-tiger\/\">Mojave&rsquo;s rsync From the Days of Tiger<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/11\/an-aging-collection-of-unix-tools\/\">An Aging Collection of Unix Tools<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siguza: macOS 12.3 replaces nano with pico. Via Saagar Jha: Unbelievable. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me when I was setting up a Mac yesterday but this is just unacceptable. [&#8230;] macOS, where you can get the cheap knock-off version of every command line tool that Linux ships with Like some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-03-25T18:47:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"a7d25fec-f22f-4257-b088-4431d2d1ba51","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-03-25T18:47:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ap9Jf7PIvQlewiEQx0tG6UQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[735,30,2077,991,318,68],"class_list":["post-35385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-gnu","tag-mac","tag-macos-12","tag-open-source-software","tag-terminal","tag-texteditor"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35393,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35385\/revisions\/35393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}