Re: [Nano-devel] making tiny nano tinier

[Chris Allegretta]

On 3/27/14, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was surprised to find that '--enable-tiny' does not disable the
> syntax highlighting/colouring code, which is quite a big chunk.
> (Adding '--disable-color' makes a tiny nano about 14% smaller.)
>
> In the far past, colour and nanorc and multiple buffers were not
> enabled by default.  So you would do --enable-tiny to make nano
> even more basic, or you would --enable-nanorc, --enable-color,
> and --enable-multibuffer to add even more features.
>
> But nowadays, wouldn't it make sense to let --enable-tiny disable
> *all* features by default, also colour, nanorc and multiple buffers?
> Which one can then override with selected --enable-something for
> wanted features?

This was actually the intention all along, and it sounds like what has
happened is as with most things accidental and not intentional.