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20 2019 December
23 - <b
>GNU nano
4.7</b
> "Havikskruid"
23 <li
>A
<
;Tab
>
; will indent a marked region only when mark
and cursor are
<br
>
24 on different lines
.</li
>
25 <li
>Two
indentations (any mix of tabs
and spaces
) are considered the
<br
>
26 same when they look the
same (that is
: indent to the same level
).</li
>
27 <li
>When using
<tt
>--breaklonglines
</tt
> or <tt
>^J
</tt
>, a line will never be broken in
<br
>
28 its leading whitespace
or quoting
.</li
>
29 <li
>The keywords in nanorc files must be in lowercase
.</li
>
30 </ul
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>
33 2019 November
29 - <b
>GNU nano
4.6</b
> "And don't you eat that yellow snow"
36 <li
>The
'formatter' command has returned
, bound by
default to
<tt
>M
-F
</tt
>.<br
>
37 It allows running a syntax
-specific command on the contents of
<br
>
39 <li
><tt
>^T
</tt
> will
try to run
'hunspell' before
'spell', because it checks
<br
>
40 spellling
for the locale
's language and understands UTF-8.</li>
41 <li>Multiple errors or warnings on startup will no longer slow nano<br>
42 down but will be indicated on the status bar with trailing dots.</li>
43 </ul></td></tr></table>
46 2019 October 4 - <b>GNU nano 4.5</b> "Košice"
49 <li>The new 'tabgives
' command allows you to specify per syntax what<br>
50 the <Tab> key should produce: some spaces, a hard TAB, ...</li>
51 <li>The output of <tt>--help</tt> is properly aligned again for all languages.</li>
52 <li><Tab> will indent a marked region also when <tt>M-}</tt> has been rebound.</li>
53 </ul></td></tr></table>
56 2019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> "Hagelslag"
59 <li>At startup, the cursor can be put on the first or last occurrence<br>
60 of a string by preceding the filename with <tt>+/string</tt> or <tt>+?string</tt>.</li>
61 <li>When automatic hard-wrapping occurs (<tt>--breaklonglines</tt>), any leading<br>
62 quoting characters will be automatically copied to the new line.</li>
63 <li><tt>M-6</tt> works again also when the cursor is at end of buffer.</li>
64 </ul></td></tr></table>
67 2019 June 18 - <b>GNU nano 4.3</b> "Musa Kart"
70 <li>The ability to read from and write to a FIFO has been regained.</li>
71 <li>Startup time is reduced by fully parsing a syntax only when needed.</li>
72 <li>Asking for help (<tt>^G</tt>) when using <tt>--operatingdir</tt> does not crash.</li>
73 <li>The reading of a huge or slow file can be stopped with <tt>^C</tt>.</li>
74 <li>Cut, zap, and copy operations are undone separately when intermixed.</li>
75 <li><tt>M-D</tt> reports the correct number of lines (zero for an empty buffer).</li>
76 </ul></td></tr></table>
79 2019 April 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.2</b> "Tax the rich, pay the teachers"
82 <li>The integrated spell checker does not crash when 'spell
' is missing.</li>
83 <li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> works also when <tt>--ignorercfiles</tt> is used.</li>
84 <li>Automatic hard-wrapping is more persistent in pushing words to the<br>
85 same overflow line.</li>
86 </ul></td></tr></table>
89 2019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> "Qué corchos será eso?"
92 <li>By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the<br>
93 end of a buffer, to produce valid POSIX text files by default, but<br>
94 also to get back the easy adding of text at the bottom.</li>
95 <li>The now unneeded option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) has been removed.</li>
96 <li>Syntax files are read in alphabetical order when globbing, so that<br>
97 the precedence of syntaxes becomes predictable.</li>
98 <li>In the C syntax, preprocessor directives are highlighted differently.</li>
99 <li><tt>M-S</tt> now toggles soft wrapping, and <tt>M-N</tt> toggles line numbers.</li>
100 <li>The jumpy-scrolling toggle has been removed.</li>
101 <li>The legacy keystrokes <tt>^W^Y</tt> and <tt>^W^V</tt> are recognized again.</li>
102 <li>Executing an external command is disallowed when in view mode.</li>
103 <li>Problems with resizing during external or speller commands were fixed.</li>
104 </ul></td></tr></table>
107 2019 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.0</b> "Thy Rope of Sands"
110 <li>An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped.</li>
111 <li>Smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default.</li>
112 <li>A newline character is no longer automatically added at end of buffer.</li>
113 <li>The line below the title bar is by default part of the editing space.</li>
114 <li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> (<tt>-b</tt>) turns automatic hard-wrapping back on.</li>
115 <li>Option <tt>--jumpyscrolling</tt> (<tt>-j</tt>) gives the chunky, half-screen scrolling.</li>
116 <li>Option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) brings back the automatic newline at EOF.</li>
117 <li>Option <tt>--emptyline</tt> (<tt>-e</tt>) leaves the line below the title bar unused.</li>
118 <li><Alt+Up> and <Alt+Down> now do a linewise scroll instead of a findnext.</li>
119 <li>Any number of justifications can be undone (like all other operations).</li>
120 <li>When marked text is justified, it becomes a single, separate paragraph.</li>
121 <li>Option <tt>--guidestripe=<number></tt> draws a vertical bar at the given column.</li>
122 <li>Option <tt>--fill=<number></tt> no longer turns on automatic hard-wrapping.</li>
123 <li>When a line continues offscreen, it now ends with a highlighted ">".</li>
124 <li>The halves of a split two-column character are shown as "[" and "]".</li>
125 <li>A line now scrolls horizontally one column earlier.</li>
126 <li>The bindable functions 'cutwordleft
' and 'cutwordright
' were renamed<br>
127 to 'chopwordleft
' and 'chopwordright
' as they don't
use the cutbuffer
.</li
>
128 <li
>The paragraph
-jumping functions were moved from Search to Go
-to
-Line
.</li
>
129 <li
>Option
<tt
>--rebinddelete
</tt
> is able to compensate
for more misbindings
.</li
>
130 <li
>Options
<tt
>--morespace
</tt
> and <tt
>--smooth
</tt
> are obsolete
and thus ignored
.</li
>
131 <li
>The
<tt
>--disable
-wrapping
-as-root
</tt
> configure option was removed
.</li
>
132 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
139 GNU nano
3.2 "Het kromme hout" changes the
default binding
140 for the linter to M
-B so that the spell
checker (^T
) can
141 always be used
, and changes (when linting
) the text in the
142 title bar
and the color of the status bar to make linting
143 mode more obvious
. It also adds a bindable
'zap' function
144 for deleting a line
or marked region without changing the
145 cutbuffer
, adds
--zap to bind the
<
;Del
>
; and <
;Backspace
>
;
146 keys to the zap
function when something is marked
, and
147 hard
-binds
<
;Alt+Del
>
; to
'zap'. Furthermore
, it shows the
148 cursor also in the help
viewer (when
--showcursor is used
),
149 renames the bindable functions
'prevhistory' to
'older' and
150 'nexthistory' to
'newer' (update your nanorcs when needed
),
151 reads the nanorc files also in restricted mode to allow
152 customization by the
user (if this should not be allowed
,
153 use --ignorercfiles in addition to
--restricted
), allows
154 in view mode to open also other
files (if this should not
155 be allowed
, use --restricted in addition to
--view
), makes
156 resizes respect a relative
--fill again
, no longer binds
157 F13
...F15 by
default, properly re
-highlights a misspelled
158 word after invoking help in the internal spell checker
,
159 and does not skip Unicode characters in
string binds
.
165 GNU nano
3.1 "Je faisais des bonds comme ça!" fixes a
166 misbinding of ^H on some terminals
and some systems
,
167 does not leave stray stuff after the prompt upon
exit
168 when having suspended nano
while using
--constantshow
,
169 and does not allow to toggle to Replace in view mode
.
175 GNU nano
3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the
176 reading of a file by seventy percent
, roughly doubles the
177 speed of handling ASCII text
, changes the way words at line
178 boundaries are deleted
, makes
<
;Ctrl+Delete
>
; wipe the next
179 word
and <
;Ctrl+Shift+Delete
>
; the preceding word
, binds M
-Q
180 to
'findprevious' by
default (the Tabs
-to
-Spaces toggle is
181 placed on M
-O
, and the More
-Space toggle is fully removed
),
182 makes an external spell check undoable
, shows the correct
183 number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple
184 files
, removes the
'formatter' command
, removes the
185 'searchagain' bindable
function (M
-W is now bound to
186 'findnext' by
default), moves the No
-Convert toggle to the
187 Insert menu
, removes the Backup
and New-Buffer toggles from
188 the main
menu (they remain in the Write
-Out
and Insert
189 menus
, respectively
), is more precise in what it accepts
as
190 a rebindable key name
, ignores any presses of
<
;Esc
>
; before
191 a valid command keystroke
, recognizes some more escape
192 sequences
for modified editing
-pad keys
, does not hide
193 rcfile error messages on a Linux console
, renames the
194 bindable functions
'copytext' to
'copy' and 'uncut' to
195 'paste', and avoids a possible hang during a Full
-Justify
.
201 GNU nano
2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the
202 buffer (or the marked region
) through an external command
203 (^R^X
and prefix the command with the pipe symbol
, "|"), is
204 better at detecting
and maintaining paragraphs
, is able to
205 justify
//-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding
206 of a key to a
string lacks a closing quote
, gives feedback
207 about the number of lines written also when prepending
or
208 appending
, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter
.
214 GNU nano
2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option
'--afterends'
215 for making Ctrl+
Right (the nextword
function) stop at word
216 ends instead of beginnings
, accepts multibyte letters
for
217 the Yes
/No
/All answers
, does emergency saves of changed
218 buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes
, adds the
219 until
-now missing bindable
function 'linenumbers', and
220 renames the toggles
'constupdate' to
'constantshow' and
221 'cuttoend' to
'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the
222 corresponding options
-- adjust your nanorc files soon
.
228 GNU nano
2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion
,
229 makes
--enable
-altrcname work again
, improves the fluidity
230 of scrolling when using the touchpad
, tweaks the syntaxes
231 for shell scripts
and PO files
, makes a replacing session
232 go always forward by
default, no longer inserts a newline
233 after an external spell check of a selected region
, always
234 accepts the English Y
and N (and A
) at a yes
-no prompt in
235 any locale
, and solves a few hypothetical bugs
.
241 GNU nano
2.9.5 "Kiša pada" changes the way the Scroll
-Up
242 and Scroll
-Down commands
work (M
-- and M
-+
): instead of
243 keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now
244 keep the cursor in the same text
position (if possible
).
245 This version further adds a
new color name
, "normal",
246 which gives the
default foreground
or background color
,
247 which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous
248 painting by earlier syntax regexes
. Bug fixes
include:
249 a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted
250 mode
, the reading in of a
new file being
"undoable", a
251 slight miswrapping of help texts when
--linenumbers was
252 used
, and the shell syntax coloring the word
"tar" in
259 GNU nano
2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a
string
260 (any piece of text
and/or commands
), permits customizing
261 the color of error messages with
'set errorcolor', colors
262 those error messages by
default in bright white on red
,
263 makes
<
;Enter
>
; at the bottom of the screen scroll just one
264 row when
--smooth is used
, does not fail when redoing a
265 file insertion
, and cancels a Shift
-selection when any
266 cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor
267 cannot move
. Further
, it treats tabs fully the same
as
268 spaces when doing automatic hard
-wrapping
, allows syntax
269 names to be unquoted
, and removes two deprecated options
270 and six deprecated bindable
function names
.
276 GNU nano
2.9.3 "Córdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks
277 that could occur when a typed space caused the word after
278 it to be pushed to the next line
. It further makes macros
279 work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences
,
280 adds the options
-M
and --trimblanks
for the command line
,
281 recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals
,
282 no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible
283 whitespace is turned on
, fixes two corner cases when doing
284 replacements in a marked region
, allows to open a named
285 pipe again when using
--noread
, and accurately detects
286 a needed color change when a line contains a start match
287 but not a corresponding end match any more
. Plus some
294 GNU nano
2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified
295 state when undoing
/redoing (also when the file was saved
296 somewhere midway
), improves the undoing of an automatic
297 linefeed at EOF
, fixes a build issue on the BSDs
, shows
298 the cursor again when compiled with
--withslang
, renames
299 the option
'justifytrim' to
'trimblanks' because it will
300 now snip trailing whitespace also
while you are typing
301 (and hard
-wrapping is enabled
), continues pushing words
302 to the next line much
longer (when hard
-wrapping
), makes
303 <
;Tab
>
; and <
;Shift+Tab
>
; indent
and unindent a marked region
,
304 allows unindenting when not all lines are indented
, lets a
305 region marked with Shift persist when indenting
/unindenting
306 or commenting
/uncommenting it
, and in those cases excludes
307 the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked
308 (which makes
for a more intuitive behavior
).
314 GNU nano
2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where
, when the mark
315 is on
, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked
316 region
. This release further clears the
"Modified" flag
317 when all edits are undone
, adds
or updates some magic
318 strings
, and does not forget when the cursor was last
325 GNU nano
2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record
and
326 replay
keystrokes (M
-: to start
and stop recording
, M
-;
327 to play the macro back
), makes ^Q
and ^S
do something
328 useful by
default (^Q starts a backward search
, and ^S
329 saves the current file
), changes ^W to start always a
330 forward search
, shows the number of open
buffers (when
331 more than one
) in the title bar
, no longer asks to press
332 Enter when there are errors in an rc file
, retires the
333 options
'--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards',
334 makes indenting
and unindenting undoable
, will look in
335 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file
and in
$XDG_DATA_HOME
336 for the history files
, adds a history stack
for executed
337 commands (^R^X
), does not overwrite the position
-history
338 file of another nano
, and fixes a score of tiny bugs
.
344 GNU nano
2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are
345 wider than the screen
, makes indenting + unindenting
346 more predictable by retaining relative indentations
,
347 allows
pasting (^U
) at a prompt
, allows triple quotes
348 in Python to not be followed by a character
, does not
349 scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel
, binds
350 Alt+Up
and Alt+Down to findprevious
and findnext
, and
351 fixes some hard
-to
-describe issues with softwrapping
352 and boundary
-crossing tabs
. Enjoy
.
358 GNU nano
2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a
new feature
: the ability
359 to
do softwrapping between words
-- at whitespace
--
360 instead of always at the edge of the screen
. This can
361 be activated with
-a
or --atblanks
or 'set atblanks'
362 together with the softwrap option
. This release further
363 fixes a handful of rare display glitches
, fixes a build
364 failure on AIX
, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc
365 files
, and renames the option
'cut' to
'cutfromcursor'
366 (please update your nanorc files before
2020).
372 GNU nano
2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from
373 a suspension that was induced from the outside
, allows
374 negative line
and column numbers on the command line
,
375 avoids some flickering when resizing the screen
while
376 in the file browser
, opens files in the order they were
377 mentioned on the command line
, and does not pretend to
378 have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT
.
384 GNU nano
2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc
391 GNU nano
2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight
392 during interactive replacing
, avoids build failures on AIX
393 and Solaris
, fixes a crash on Solaris
, speeds up backwards
394 searching
, improves PHP syntax highlighting
, and no longer
395 asks
"save anyway?" when the user ^Q discards the buffer
.
401 GNU nano
2.8.2 "Krats" adds another
new feature
: it makes
402 the ^G help texts searchable with ^W
. Apart from that
,
403 it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle
404 of verbatim input
, avoids an unlikely crash when used
405 without UTF
-8 support in some locales
, avoids redrawing
406 the screen twice when switching between buffers
while
407 line numbers are active
, and works around a coloring
408 bug on musl
. Plus tweaks to the documentation
; plus
409 translation updates
for fifteen languages
.
415 GNU nano
2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS
and
416 on musl
, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when
417 double-width characters on row boundaries are involved
,
418 shows
double-width characters
as ">" and "<" when split
419 across two rows
, moves the cursor more
predictably (at
420 the cost of sometimes putting it on the second
"half"
421 of a character
), avoids creating lines that consist of
422 only blanks when using autoindent
, makes ^Home
and ^End
423 go to the start
and end of the
file (on terminals that
424 support those keystrokes
), places the cursor better when
425 linting
, lets the linter ask only once whether to open
426 an included file
, and adds bindings
for ^Up
and ^Down
427 in the file browser
. Don
't sit on your hands.
433 GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in
434 softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from
435 visual row to visual row instead of jumping between
436 logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to
437 the start and end of a row, and only when already
438 there, then to the start and end of the logical line.
439 Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead
440 of always per logical line. On an entirely different
441 front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build
442 on more platforms. In short: there were many internal
443 changes, not many user-visible ones (apart form the
444 new softwrap navigation). The conversion to gnulib
445 was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by
452 GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace
453 the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things
454 when multiline regexes with identical start and end are
455 involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches,
456 does replacements at the edges of a marked region right,
457 no longer hides double-width characters at the head of
458 softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at
459 startup, and documents the ability to read a file from
460 standard input. Come tickle my ears.
466 GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly
467 manner again (bug was introduced in previous version),
468 sets the preferred x position for vertical movements
469 more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in
470 softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your
471 system lacks 'makeinfo
', and corrects the behavior of
472 the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches.
478 GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs:
479 your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain
480 newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching
481 between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes,
482 makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a
483 Linux console, is more resistant against malformations
484 in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is
485 typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL.
486 Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an
487 unlocked file just after saving a new one. That's it
.
488 Tastes great with thick butter
.
494 GNU nano
2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature
:
495 the ability to complete with one
keystroke (^
] by
default)
496 a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in
497 the current buffer
. Besides
, this release fixes two bugs
498 related to using line numbers in softwrap mode
, allows to
499 use the PageUp
and PageDown keys together with Shift on
500 VTE
-based terminals
, stops the help lines from flickering
501 during interactive replacing
, makes a
'set fill' override
502 an earlier
'set nowrap', properly restores the selected
503 region after an external spell check
, and improves a few
504 other tidbits
. If you should find any more bugs
, please
505 run
'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there
.
511 GNU nano
2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often
-asked
-for feature
: the
512 ability to display line numbers beside the text
. This can
513 be activated with
-l
or --linenumbers on the command line
,
514 or with
'set linenumbers' in your nanorc
, or toggled with
515 M
-#. The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the
516 option
'set numbercolor'. This release furthermore fixes
517 some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode
, is more strict
518 in the parsing of key rebindings
, and marks a
new buffer
519 as modified when the output of a
command (^R ^X
) has been
520 read into it
. Come
and check it out
!
526 GNU nano
2.7.0 "Suni" adds a
new feature
: allowing text to be
527 selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys
.
528 Besides that
, nano now works also when run in very tiny
529 terminals (down to one line
, one column
), and improves
530 the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces
. Not much
,
531 but it
's time to get it out there.
533 With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while
534 we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd,
535 back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass.
541 nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on
542 a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very
543 first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it
544 holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits
545 (when using the
default speller
), fixes a small sorting bug
546 in the file browser
, makes searching
case-insensitively in
547 a UTF
-8 locale a little faster
, and doesn
't enter invalid
548 bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Santé!
554 nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the
555 keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks
556 of text, and the option 'wordchars
' for specifying which
557 characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered
558 word-forming. Further, it provides feedback during Unicode
559 input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which
560 must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the
561 window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after
562 having been suspended
, and replaces the beginning
-of
-line
563 anchor (^
) just once per line
. There are also several tiny
564 improvements in screen rendering
and key handling
.
565 Come get your hair tousled
!
571 nano
2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update
, but also
572 adds one little
feature (the ability to
use negative numbers
573 with Go To Line
: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom
),
574 includes syntax highlighting
for Rust
, and fixes three tiny
575 bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren
't
576 even worth mentioning).
582 nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and
583 some of them not so little. It improves moving about in
584 the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell
585 checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with
586 default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer,
587 shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor
588 is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if
589 there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes
590 when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename
591 on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches,
592 and allows to abort re-searches. Among bunches of other
593 things. It is worth the trouble to upgrade.
595 And, with this release, we take leave of the herd...
596 Bye! And thanks for all the grass!
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