diff --git a/development/nano/README b/development/nano/README
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+nano - GNU nano Text Editor
+
+GNU nano attempts to move even closer to the goal of a 'compatible but
+enhanced' Pico clone. The 2.0 release of GNU nano is a major leap forward
+in usability and features, building on the 1.3 branch. The following
+improvemens and features are available in version 2.0 include:
+
+    * UTF-8 support.
+    * Improved color syntax highlighting.
+    * Copy text without cutting..
+    * Verbatim input mode.
+    * Repeat last seach w/o confirmation (Meta-W)
+    * Spell check/replace selected text only
+    * Indent marked text
+    * Move to beginning/end of paragraph
+    * Search within the file browser
+    * Mixed file format auto-conversion
diff --git a/development/nano/nano.SlackBuild b/development/nano/nano.SlackBuild
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Slackware build script for nano
+# Written by Erik Hanson erik@slackbuilds.org
+# Modified by the SlackBuilds.org project
+
+VERSION=2.0.6
+ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
+CWD=$(pwd)
+TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
+PKG=$TMP/package-nano
+OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
+
+if [ "$ARCH" = "i386" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i386 -mtune=i686"
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
+fi
+
+rm -rf $PKG
+mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
+cd $TMP || exit 1
+rm -rf nano-$VERSION
+tar -zxvf $CWD/nano-$VERSION.tar.gz || exit 1
+cd nano-$VERSION || exit 1
+chown -R root:root .
+chmod -R u+w,go+r-w,a-s .
+
+CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+./configure \
+  --prefix=/usr \
+  --sysconfdir=/etc \
+  --localstatedir=/var/lib \
+  --mandir=/usr/man \
+  --infodir=/usr/info \
+  --enable-all \
+  || exit 1
+
+make || exit 1
+make install-strip DESTDIR=$PKG || exit 1
+
+( cd $PKG/usr/man
+  find . -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
+  for i in $(find . -type l) ; do ln -s $(readlink $i).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
+)
+
+( cd $PKG/usr/info
+  rm -f dir
+  gzip -9 *.info
+)
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/nano-$VERSION
+cp -a \
+  ABOUT-NLS AUTHORS BUGS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS README THANKS TODO \
+  UPGRADE doc/faq.html doc/nanorc.sample doc/syntax doc/texinfo/nano.html \
+  $PKG/usr/doc/nano-$VERSION
+cat $CWD/nano.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/nano-$VERSION/nano.SlackBuild
+find $PKG/usr/doc -name "Makefile*" -exec rm {} \;
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/install
+cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
+
+cd $PKG
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/nano-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.tgz
diff --git a/development/nano/nano.info b/development/nano/nano.info
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+PRGNAM="nano"
+VERSION="2.0.6"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.nano-editor.org/"
+DOWNLOAD="http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.0/nano-2.0.6.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="619107f0fc3c4383d668cef15aa3ca32"
+MAINTAINER="Erik Hanson"
+EMAIL="erik@slackbuilds.org"
+APPROVED="rworkman,BP{k}"
diff --git a/development/nano/slack-desc b/development/nano/slack-desc
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+nano: nano - GNU nano Text Editor
+nano:
+nano: GNU nano attempts to move even closer to the goal of a 'compatible
+nano: but enhanced' Pico clone.
+nano: 
+nano: http://www.nano-editor.org/
+nano:
+nano:
+nano: