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21 GNU nano
3.2 "Het kromme hout" changes the
default binding
22 for the linter to M
-B so that the spell
checker (^T
) can
23 always be used
, and changes (when linting
) the text in the
24 title bar
and the color of the status bar to make linting
25 mode more obvious
. It also adds a bindable
'zap' function
26 for deleting a line
or marked region without changing the
27 cutbuffer
, adds
--zap to bind the
<
;Del
>
; and <
;Backspace
>
;
28 keys to the zap
function when something is marked
, and
29 hard
-binds
<
;Alt+Del
>
; to
'zap'. Furthermore
, it shows the
30 cursor also in the help
viewer (when
--showcursor is used
),
31 renames the bindable functions
'prevhistory' to
'older' and
32 'nexthistory' to
'newer' (update your nanorcs when needed
),
33 reads the nanorc files also in restricted mode to allow
34 customization by the
user (if this should not be allowed
,
35 use --ignorercfiles in addition to
--restricted
), allows
36 in view mode to open also other
files (if this should not
37 be allowed
, use --restricted in addition to
--view
), makes
38 resizes respect a relative
--fill again
, no longer binds
39 F13
...F15 by
default, properly re
-highlights a misspelled
40 word after invoking help in the internal spell checker
,
41 and does not skip Unicode characters in
string binds
.
47 GNU nano
3.1 "Je faisais des bonds comme ça!" fixes a
48 misbinding of ^H on some terminals
and some systems
,
49 does not leave stray stuff after the prompt upon
exit
50 when having suspended nano
while using
--constantshow
,
51 and does not allow to toggle to Replace in view mode
.
57 GNU nano
3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the
58 reading of a file by seventy percent
, roughly doubles the
59 speed of handling ASCII text
, changes the way words at line
60 boundaries are deleted
, makes
<
;Ctrl+Delete
>
; wipe the next
61 word
and <
;Ctrl+Shift+Delete
>
; the preceding word
, binds M
-Q
62 to
'findprevious' by
default (the Tabs
-to
-Spaces toggle is
63 placed on M
-O
, and the More
-Space toggle is fully removed
),
64 makes an external spell check undoable
, shows the correct
65 number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple
66 files
, removes the
'formatter' command
, removes the
67 'searchagain' bindable
function (M
-W is now bound to
68 'findnext' by
default), moves the No
-Convert toggle to the
69 Insert menu
, removes the Backup
and New-Buffer toggles from
70 the main
menu (they remain in the Write
-Out
and Insert
71 menus
, respectively
), is more precise in what it accepts
as
72 a rebindable key name
, ignores any presses of
<
;Esc
>
; before
73 a valid command keystroke
, recognizes some more escape
74 sequences
for modified editing
-pad keys
, does not hide
75 rcfile error messages on a Linux console
, renames the
76 bindable functions
'copytext' to
'copy' and 'uncut' to
77 'paste', and avoids a possible hang during a Full
-Justify
.
83 GNU nano
2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the
84 buffer (or the marked region
) through an external command
85 (^R^X
and prefix the command with the pipe symbol
, "|"), is
86 better at detecting
and maintaining paragraphs
, is able to
87 justify
//-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding
88 of a key to a
string lacks a closing quote
, gives feedback
89 about the number of lines written also when prepending
or
90 appending
, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter
.
96 GNU nano
2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option
'--afterends'
97 for making Ctrl+
Right (the nextword
function) stop at word
98 ends instead of beginnings
, accepts multibyte letters
for
99 the Yes
/No
/All answers
, does emergency saves of changed
100 buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes
, adds the
101 until
-now missing bindable
function 'linenumbers', and
102 renames the toggles
'constupdate' to
'constantshow' and
103 'cuttoend' to
'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the
104 corresponding options
-- adjust your nanorc files soon
.
110 GNU nano
2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion
,
111 makes
--enable
-altrcname work again
, improves the fluidity
112 of scrolling when using the touchpad
, tweaks the syntaxes
113 for shell scripts
and PO files
, makes a replacing session
114 go always forward by
default, no longer inserts a newline
115 after an external spell check of a selected region
, always
116 accepts the English Y
and N (and A
) at a yes
-no prompt in
117 any locale
, and solves a few hypothetical bugs
.
123 GNU nano
2.9.5 "Kiša pada" changes the way the Scroll
-Up
124 and Scroll
-Down commands
work (M
-- and M
-+
): instead of
125 keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now
126 keep the cursor in the same text
position (if possible
).
127 This version further adds a
new color name
, "normal",
128 which gives the
default foreground
or background color
,
129 which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous
130 painting by earlier syntax regexes
. Bug fixes
include:
131 a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted
132 mode
, the reading in of a
new file being
"undoable", a
133 slight miswrapping of help texts when
--linenumbers was
134 used
, and the shell syntax coloring the word
"tar" in
141 GNU nano
2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a
string
142 (any piece of text
and/or commands
), permits customizing
143 the color of error messages with
'set errorcolor', colors
144 those error messages by
default in bright white on red
,
145 makes
<
;Enter
>
; at the bottom of the screen scroll just one
146 row when
--smooth is used
, does not fail when redoing a
147 file insertion
, and cancels a Shift
-selection when any
148 cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor
149 cannot move
. Further
, it treats tabs fully the same
as
150 spaces when doing automatic hard
-wrapping
, allows syntax
151 names to be unquoted
, and removes two deprecated options
152 and six deprecated bindable
function names
.
158 GNU nano
2.9.3 "Córdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks
159 that could occur when a typed space caused the word after
160 it to be pushed to the next line
. It further makes macros
161 work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences
,
162 adds the options
-M
and --trimblanks
for the command line
,
163 recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals
,
164 no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible
165 whitespace is turned on
, fixes two corner cases when doing
166 replacements in a marked region
, allows to open a named
167 pipe again when using
--noread
, and accurately detects
168 a needed color change when a line contains a start match
169 but not a corresponding end match any more
. Plus some
176 GNU nano
2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified
177 state when undoing
/redoing (also when the file was saved
178 somewhere midway
), improves the undoing of an automatic
179 linefeed at EOF
, fixes a build issue on the BSDs
, shows
180 the cursor again when compiled with
--withslang
, renames
181 the option
'justifytrim' to
'trimblanks' because it will
182 now snip trailing whitespace also
while you are typing
183 (and hard
-wrapping is enabled
), continues pushing words
184 to the next line much
longer (when hard
-wrapping
), makes
185 <
;Tab
>
; and <
;Shift+Tab
>
; indent
and unindent a marked region
,
186 allows unindenting when not all lines are indented
, lets a
187 region marked with Shift persist when indenting
/unindenting
188 or commenting
/uncommenting it
, and in those cases excludes
189 the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked
190 (which makes
for a more intuitive behavior
).
196 GNU nano
2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where
, when the mark
197 is on
, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked
198 region
. This release further clears the
"Modified" flag
199 when all edits are undone
, adds
or updates some magic
200 strings
, and does not forget when the cursor was last
207 GNU nano
2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record
and
208 replay
keystrokes (M
-: to start
and stop recording
, M
-;
209 to play the macro back
), makes ^Q
and ^S
do something
210 useful by
default (^Q starts a backward search
, and ^S
211 saves the current file
), changes ^W to start always a
212 forward search
, shows the number of open
buffers (when
213 more than one
) in the title bar
, no longer asks to press
214 Enter when there are errors in an rc file
, retires the
215 options
'--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards',
216 makes indenting
and unindenting undoable
, will look in
217 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file
and in
$XDG_DATA_HOME
218 for the history files
, adds a history stack
for executed
219 commands (^R^X
), does not overwrite the position
-history
220 file of another nano
, and fixes a score of tiny bugs
.
226 GNU nano
2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are
227 wider than the screen
, makes indenting + unindenting
228 more predictable by retaining relative indentations
,
229 allows
pasting (^U
) at a prompt
, allows triple quotes
230 in Python to not be followed by a character
, does not
231 scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel
, binds
232 Alt+Up
and Alt+Down to findprevious
and findnext
, and
233 fixes some hard
-to
-describe issues with softwrapping
234 and boundary
-crossing tabs
. Enjoy
.
240 GNU nano
2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a
new feature
: the ability
241 to
do softwrapping between words
-- at whitespace
--
242 instead of always at the edge of the screen
. This can
243 be activated with
-a
or --atblanks
or 'set atblanks'
244 together with the softwrap option
. This release further
245 fixes a handful of rare display glitches
, fixes a build
246 failure on AIX
, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc
247 files
, and renames the option
'cut' to
'cutfromcursor'
248 (please update your nanorc files before
2020).
254 GNU nano
2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from
255 a suspension that was induced from the outside
, allows
256 negative line
and column numbers on the command line
,
257 avoids some flickering when resizing the screen
while
258 in the file browser
, opens files in the order they were
259 mentioned on the command line
, and does not pretend to
260 have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT
.
266 GNU nano
2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc
273 GNU nano
2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight
274 during interactive replacing
, avoids build failures on AIX
275 and Solaris
, fixes a crash on Solaris
, speeds up backwards
276 searching
, improves PHP syntax highlighting
, and no longer
277 asks
"save anyway?" when the user ^Q discards the buffer
.
283 GNU nano
2.8.2 "Krats" adds another
new feature
: it makes
284 the ^G help texts searchable with ^W
. Apart from that
,
285 it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle
286 of verbatim input
, avoids an unlikely crash when used
287 without UTF
-8 support in some locales
, avoids redrawing
288 the screen twice when switching between buffers
while
289 line numbers are active
, and works around a coloring
290 bug on musl
. Plus tweaks to the documentation
; plus
291 translation updates
for fifteen languages
.
297 GNU nano
2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS
and
298 on musl
, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when
299 double-width characters on row boundaries are involved
,
300 shows
double-width characters
as ">" and "<" when split
301 across two rows
, moves the cursor more
predictably (at
302 the cost of sometimes putting it on the second
"half"
303 of a character
), avoids creating lines that consist of
304 only blanks when using autoindent
, makes ^Home
and ^End
305 go to the start
and end of the
file (on terminals that
306 support those keystrokes
), places the cursor better when
307 linting
, lets the linter ask only once whether to open
308 an included file
, and adds bindings
for ^Up
and ^Down
309 in the file browser
. Don
't sit on your hands.
315 GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in
316 softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from
317 visual row to visual row instead of jumping between
318 logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to
319 the start and end of a row, and only when already
320 there, then to the start and end of the logical line.
321 Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead
322 of always per logical line. On an entirely different
323 front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build
324 on more platforms. In short: there were many internal
325 changes, not many user-visible ones (apart form the
326 new softwrap navigation). The conversion to gnulib
327 was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by
334 GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace
335 the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things
336 when multiline regexes with identical start and end are
337 involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches,
338 does replacements at the edges of a marked region right,
339 no longer hides double-width characters at the head of
340 softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at
341 startup, and documents the ability to read a file from
342 standard input. Come tickle my ears.
348 GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly
349 manner again (bug was introduced in previous version),
350 sets the preferred x position for vertical movements
351 more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in
352 softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your
353 system lacks 'makeinfo
', and corrects the behavior of
354 the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches.
360 GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs:
361 your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain
362 newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching
363 between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes,
364 makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a
365 Linux console, is more resistant against malformations
366 in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is
367 typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL.
368 Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an
369 unlocked file just after saving a new one. That's it
.
370 Tastes great with thick butter
.
376 GNU nano
2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature
:
377 the ability to complete with one
keystroke (^
] by
default)
378 a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in
379 the current buffer
. Besides
, this release fixes two bugs
380 related to using line numbers in softwrap mode
, allows to
381 use the PageUp
and PageDown keys together with Shift on
382 VTE
-based terminals
, stops the help lines from flickering
383 during interactive replacing
, makes a
'set fill' override
384 an earlier
'set nowrap', properly restores the selected
385 region after an external spell check
, and improves a few
386 other tidbits
. If you should find any more bugs
, please
387 run
'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there
.
393 GNU nano
2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often
-asked
-for feature
: the
394 ability to display line numbers beside the text
. This can
395 be activated with
-l
or --linenumbers on the command line
,
396 or with
'set linenumbers' in your nanorc
, or toggled with
397 M
-#. The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the
398 option
'set numbercolor'. This release furthermore fixes
399 some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode
, is more strict
400 in the parsing of key rebindings
, and marks a
new buffer
401 as modified when the output of a
command (^R ^X
) has been
402 read into it
. Come
and check it out
!
408 GNU nano
2.7.0 "Suni" adds a
new feature
: allowing text to be
409 selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys
.
410 Besides that
, nano now works also when run in very tiny
411 terminals (down to one line
, one column
), and improves
412 the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces
. Not much
,
413 but it
's time to get it out there.
415 With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while
416 we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd,
417 back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass.
423 nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on
424 a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very
425 first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it
426 holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits
427 (when using the
default speller
), fixes a small sorting bug
428 in the file browser
, makes searching
case-insensitively in
429 a UTF
-8 locale a little faster
, and doesn
't enter invalid
430 bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Santé!
436 nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the
437 keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks
438 of text, and the option 'wordchars
' for specifying which
439 characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered
440 word-forming. Further, it provides feedback during Unicode
441 input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which
442 must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the
443 window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after
444 having been suspended
, and replaces the beginning
-of
-line
445 anchor (^
) just once per line
. There are also several tiny
446 improvements in screen rendering
and key handling
.
447 Come get your hair tousled
!
453 nano
2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update
, but also
454 adds one little
feature (the ability to
use negative numbers
455 with Go To Line
: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom
),
456 includes syntax highlighting
for Rust
, and fixes three tiny
457 bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren
't
458 even worth mentioning).
464 nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and
465 some of them not so little. It improves moving about in
466 the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell
467 checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with
468 default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer,
469 shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor
470 is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if
471 there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes
472 when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename
473 on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches,
474 and allows to abort re-searches. Among bunches of other
475 things. It is worth the trouble to upgrade.
477 And, with this release, we take leave of the herd...
478 Bye! And thanks for all the grass!
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