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by an_mp_speaks 1871 days ago
A delightfully opaque version name, as ever. Does anyone know what it's referencing?
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fullstop 1871 days ago
It's a clone / inspired by the editor in Pine, pico, the PIne COmposer. Ages ago, Pine was fairly standard for text-based email on Unix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_(email_client)

The name is a play on metric prefixes.

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GrayShade 1871 days ago
I think the grand-parent was asking about the code name of this version, "Toți ceilalți arau câmpurile", and not the program name.
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GrayShade 1871 days ago
It's a quote from Harari's Sapiens book: "[History is something that very few people have been doing while] everyone else has been ploughing fields [and carrying water buckets]". For some reason, it's in Romanian.

It may sound full of hubris, but I don't think that's the intention. Check out https://www.nano-editor.org/news.php for previous release names. The maintainer has gone through a wide variety of references.

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