<div class="title">2018 November 11 - <b>GNU nano 3.2</b> <i>"Het kromme hout"</i></div>
<div class="details">
-This release changes the default binding
-for the linter to M-B so that the spell checker (^T) can
+This release changes the default binding for the linter to
+<tt>M-B</tt> so that the spell checker (<tt>^T</tt>) can
always be used, and changes (when linting) the text in the
title bar and the color of the status bar to make linting
mode more obvious. It also adds a bindable 'zap' function
for deleting a line or marked region without changing the
-cutbuffer, adds --zap to bind the <Del> and <Backspace>
+cutbuffer, adds <tt>--zap</tt> to bind the <Del> and <Backspace>
keys to the zap function when something is marked, and
hard-binds <Alt+Del> to 'zap'. Furthermore, it shows the
-cursor also in the help viewer (when --showcursor is used),
+cursor also in the help viewer (when <tt>--showcursor</tt> is used),
renames the bindable functions 'prevhistory' to 'older' and
'nexthistory' to 'newer' (update your nanorcs when needed),
reads the nanorc files also in restricted mode to allow
customization by the user (if this should not be allowed,
-use --ignorercfiles in addition to --restricted), allows
+use <tt>--ignorercfiles</tt> in addition to <tt>--restricted</tt>), allows
in view mode to open also other files (if this should not
-be allowed, use --restricted in addition to --view), makes
-resizes respect a relative --fill again, no longer binds
-F13...F15 by default, properly re-highlights a misspelled
+be allowed, use <tt>--restricted</tt> in addition to <tt>--view</tt>), makes
+resizes respect a relative <tt>--fill</tt> again, no longer binds
+<tt>F13</tt>...<tt>F15</tt> by default, properly re-highlights a misspelled
word after invoking help in the internal spell checker,
and does not skip Unicode characters in string binds.
</div>
<div class="title">2018 September 18 - <b>GNU nano 3.1</b> <i>"Je faisais des bonds comme ça!"</i></div>
<div class="details">
-This release fixes a
-misbinding of ^H on some terminals and some systems,
-does not leave stray stuff after the prompt upon exit
-when having suspended nano while using --constantshow,
+This release fixes a misbinding of <tt>^H</tt> on some terminals and
+some systems, does not leave stray stuff after the prompt upon exit
+when having suspended nano while using <tt>--constantshow</tt>,
and does not allow to toggle to Replace in view mode.
</div>
reading of a file by seventy percent, roughly doubles the
speed of handling ASCII text, changes the way words at line
boundaries are deleted, makes <Ctrl+Delete> wipe the next
-word and <Ctrl+Shift+Delete> the preceding word, binds M-Q
+word and <Ctrl+Shift+Delete> the preceding word, binds <tt>M-Q</tt>
to 'findprevious' by default (the Tabs-to-Spaces toggle is
-placed on M-O, and the More-Space toggle is fully removed),
+placed on <tt>M-O</tt>, and the More-Space toggle is fully removed),
makes an external spell check undoable, shows the correct
number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple
files, removes the 'formatter' command, removes the
-'searchagain' bindable function (M-W is now bound to
+'searchagain' bindable function (<tt>M-W</tt> is now bound to
'findnext' by default), moves the No-Convert toggle to the
Insert menu, removes the Backup and New-Buffer toggles from
the main menu (they remain in the Write-Out and Insert
<div class="details">
This release brings the ability to filter the
buffer (or the marked region) through an external command
-(^R^X and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is
+(<tt>^R^X</tt> and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is
better at detecting and maintaining paragraphs, is able to
justify //-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding
of a key to a string lacks a closing quote, gives feedback
<div class="title">2018 May 15 - <b>GNU nano 2.9.7</b> <i>"Hvide Sande"</i></div>
<div class="details">
-This release adds the option '--afterends'
-for making Ctrl+Right (the nextword function) stop at word
+This release adds the option <tt>--afterends</tt> for making
+<Ctrl+Right> (the nextword function) stop at word
ends instead of beginnings, accepts multibyte letters for
the Yes/No/All answers, does emergency saves of changed
buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes, adds the
<div class="title">2018 April 27 - <b>GNU nano 2.9.6</b> <i>"Gomance"</i></div>
<div class="details">
-This release fixes a crash in word completion,
-makes --enable-altrcname work again, improves the fluidity
+This release fixes a crash in word completion, makes
+<tt>--enable-altrcname</tt> work again, improves the fluidity
of scrolling when using the touchpad, tweaks the syntaxes
for shell scripts and PO files, makes a replacing session
go always forward by default, no longer inserts a newline
-after an external spell check of a selected region, always
-accepts the English Y and N (and A) at a yes-no prompt in
-any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs.
+after an external spell check of a selected region, always accepts
+the English <tt>Y</tt> and <tt>N</tt> (and <tt>A</tt>) at a yes-no
+prompt in any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs.
</div>
<div class="title">2018 March 29 - <b>GNU nano 2.9.5</b> <i>"Kiša pada"</i></div>
<div class="details">
-This release changes the way the Scroll-Up
-and Scroll-Down commands work (M-- and M-+): instead of
+This release changes the way the Scroll-Up and Scroll-Down
+commands work (<tt>M--</tt> and <tt>M-+</tt>): instead of
keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now
keep the cursor in the same text position (if possible).
This version further adds a new color name, "normal",
which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous
painting by earlier syntax regexes. Bug fixes include:
a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted
-mode, the reading in of a new file being "undoable", a
-slight miswrapping of help texts when --linenumbers was
-used, and the shell syntax coloring the word "tar" in
-file names.
+mode, the reading in of a new file being "undoable", a slight
+miswrapping of help texts when <tt>--linenumbers</tt> was used,
+and the shell syntax coloring the word "tar" in file names.
</div>
<div class="title">2018 March 8 - <b>GNU nano 2.9.4</b> <i>"Isabel"</i></div>
the color of error messages with 'set errorcolor', colors
those error messages by default in bright white on red,
makes <Enter> at the bottom of the screen scroll just one
-row when --smooth is used, does not fail when redoing a
-file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any
+row when <tt>--smooth</tt> is used, does not fail when redoing
+a file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any
cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor
cannot move. Further, it treats tabs fully the same as
spaces when doing automatic hard-wrapping, allows syntax
that could occur when a typed space caused the word after
it to be pushed to the next line. It further makes macros
work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences,
-adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line,
+adds the options <tt>-M</tt> and <tt>--trimblanks</tt> for the command line,
recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals,
no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible
whitespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing
replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named
-pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects
+pipe again when using <tt>--noread</tt>, and accurately detects
a needed color change when a line contains a start match
but not a corresponding end match any more. Plus some
other small fry.
state when undoing/redoing (also when the file was saved
somewhere midway), improves the undoing of an automatic
linefeed at EOF, fixes a build issue on the BSDs, shows
-the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames
-the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will
-now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing
+the cursor again when compiled with <tt>--withslang</tt>,
+renames the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it
+wil now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing
(and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words
to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes
<Tab> and <Shift+Tab> indent and unindent a marked region,
<div class="title">2017 November 27 - <b>GNU nano 2.9.1</b> <i>"Damyatta"</i></div>
<div class="details">
-This release fixes a bug where, when the mark
-is on, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked
+This release fixes a bug where, when the mark is on,
+<tt>^S</tt> would overwrite the file with just the marked
region. This release further clears the "Modified" flag
when all edits are undone, adds or updates some magic
strings, and does not forget when the cursor was last
<div class="title">2017 November 18 - <b>GNU nano 2.9.0</b> <i>"Eta"</i></div>
<div class="details">
-This release introduces the ability to record and
-replay keystrokes (M-: to start and stop recording, M-;
-to play the macro back), makes ^Q and ^S do something
-useful by default (^Q starts a backward search, and ^S
-saves the current file), changes ^W to start always a
-forward search, shows the number of open buffers (when
+This release introduces the ability to record and replay keystrokes
+(<tt>M-:</tt> to start and stop recording, <tt>M-;</tt> to play the
+macro back), makes <tt>^Q</tt> and <tt>^S</tt> do something useful
+by default (<tt>^Q</tt> starts a backward search, and <tt>^S</tt>
+saves the current file), changes <tt>^W</tt> to start always
+a forward search, shows the number of open buffers (when
more than one) in the title bar, no longer asks to press
Enter when there are errors in an rc file, retires the
-options '--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards',
+options <tt>--quiet</tt> and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards',
makes indenting and unindenting undoable, will look in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file and in $XDG_DATA_HOME
for the history files, adds a history stack for executed
-commands (^R^X), does not overwrite the position-history
+commands (<tt>^R^X</tt>), does not overwrite the position-history
file of another nano, and fixes a score of tiny bugs.
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