diff --git a/app-editors/nano/nano-2.2.6.recipe b/app-editors/nano/nano-2.2.6.recipe
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--- a/app-editors/nano/nano-2.2.6.recipe
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@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 SUMMARY="GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality"
-DESCRIPTION="GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality."
+DESCRIPTION="nano is a simple text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface. It emulates the Pico text editor, part of the Pine email client, and also provides additional functionality. Features include:
+- Customizable key bindings
+- \'soft\' line wrapping
+- Full undo/redo support
+- Pager support (reading from stdin)
+- Warnings for un-writable files
+- More syntax highlighting samples (Fortran, objC, OCaml, Makefiles)"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.nano-editor.org/"
 SRC_URI="http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/nano-2.2.6.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_MD5="03233ae480689a008eb98feb1b599807"