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3 | <title>GNU nano: History</title> | |
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11 | <center><b>History</b></center> | |
12 | <br> | |
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15 | <blockquote><br><br> | |
16 | The following improvements are available in nano version 2.6:<br> | |
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20 | <UL> | |
21 | <li>Trailing whitespace can be snipped from justified paragraphs.</li> | |
22 | <li>Better feedback when a file is unwritable or a directory inaccessible.</li> | |
23 | <li>Bindable functions for deleting a word to the left and to the right.</li> | |
24 | <li>A bindable function for saving the current file without prompting for its name.</li> | |
25 | <br> | |
26 | <li>Commenting/uncommenting lines with a single keystroke (M-3).</li> | |
27 | <li>Resizing the window does not exit from help viewer nor file browser.</li> | |
28 | <li>On some terminals Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right jump to previous and next word.</li> | |
29 | <li>A steadier movement of the highlight in the file browser.</li> | |
30 | </UL> | |
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32 | </td></tr></table> | |
33 | </blockquote> | |
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36 | <blockquote><br><br> | |
37 | The following improvements and features are available in GNU nano version 2.4:<br> | |
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41 | <UL> | |
42 | <li>The ability to give different colours to titlebar, statusbar and help lines.</li> | |
43 | <li>Linter support, for automatically putting the cursor on syntax errors.</li> | |
44 | <li>Formatter support, for normalizing the layout of a text instead of the spelling.</li> | |
45 | <li>The undo/redo system has reached a usable state and is enabled by default.</li> | |
46 | <br> | |
47 | <li>No longer finds "ghosts" of certain UTF-8 characters.</li> | |
48 | <li>Makes the mouse usable again for clicking on shortcuts.</li> | |
49 | <li>Fixes several syntax colouring issues.</li> | |
50 | <li>Adds more syntax highlighting examples (autoconf, changelogs, elisp, Go, guile, javascript, | |
51 | json, PO files, postgresql, texinfo).</li> | |
52 | </UL> | |
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54 | </td></tr></table> | |
55 | </blockquote> | |
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58 | <blockquote><br><br> | |
59 | The following improvements and features are available in version 2.2:<br> | |
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63 | <UL> | |
64 | <li>Customizable key bindings.</li> | |
65 | <li>Abortable searching (^C after ^W).</li> | |
66 | <li>Partial undo/redo support [EXPERIMENTAL].</li> | |
67 | <li>Pager support (i.e. reading from stdin).</li> | |
68 | </UL> | |
69 | ||
70 | </td><td> | |
71 | ||
72 | <UL> | |
73 | <li>Warnings for unwritable files and for external modification since opening.</li> | |
74 | <li>"Soft" line wrapping (i.e. display of complete lines).</li> | |
75 | <li>More syntax highlighting examples (Fortran, objC, OCaml, Makefiles).</li> | |
76 | <li>Faster syntax highlighting for complicated regexes.</li> | |
77 | </UL> | |
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79 | </td></tr></table> | |
80 | </blockquote> | |
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82 | ||
83 | <blockquote><br><br> | |
84 | The following improvements and features are available in version 2.0:<br> | |
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87 | ||
88 | <UL> | |
89 | <li>UTF-8 support.</li> | |
90 | <li>Improved color syntax highlighting.</li> | |
91 | <li>Copy text without cutting it.</li> | |
92 | <li>Verbatim input mode.</li> | |
93 | <li>Repeat last seach without confirmation (Meta-W).</li> | |
94 | </UL> | |
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96 | </td><td> | |
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98 | <UL> | |
99 | <li>Spell check/replace selected text only.</li> | |
100 | <li>Indent marked text.</li> | |
101 | <li>Move to beginning/end of paragraph.</li> | |
102 | <li>Search within the file browser.</li> | |
103 | <li>Auto-conversion of mixed file format</li> | |
104 | </UL> | |
105 | ||
106 | </td></tr></table> | |
107 | </blockquote> | |
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109 | ||
110 | <blockquote><br><br> | |
111 | The following new and changed features are available in version 1.2:<br> | |
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113 | <table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH="100%"><tr><td> | |
114 | ||
115 | <UL> | |
116 | <li>More Pico compatible by default.</li> | |
117 | <li>Smooth scrolling (-S flag).</li> | |
118 | <li>Bracket matching (Meta-]).</li> | |
119 | <li>.nanorc support.</li> | |
120 | <li>Color syntax highlighting.</li> | |
121 | <li>Search and replace history editing.</li> | |
122 | <li>Customizable quoting string (-Q flag).</li> | |
123 | </UL> | |
124 | ||
125 | </td><td> | |
126 | ||
127 | <UL> | |
128 | <li>Append/prepend from write file menu.</li> | |
129 | <li>Write selected text to file (^O after ^^).</li> | |
130 | <li>Multiple file buffers (-F flag).</li> | |
131 | <li>Mac/Dos/NoConvert file format (-M, -D, -N).</li> | |
132 | <li>Saved search/replace history (-H flag).</li> | |
133 | <li>Backup files (-B flag).</li> | |
134 | <li>Insert output of command (^X after ^R).</li> | |
135 | </UL> | |
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137 | </td></tr></table> | |
138 | </blockquote> | |
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140 | ||
141 | <blockquote><br><br> | |
142 | Version 1.0 of GNU nano had the following features:<br> | |
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145 | ||
146 | <UL> | |
147 | <li>Autoconf support.</li> | |
148 | <li>Truly free license (GNU GPL). </li> | |
149 | <li>Goto-line# command without a flag. </li> | |
150 | <li>Case-sensitive search function. </li> | |
151 | <li>Interactive search and replace. </li> | |
152 | <li>2/3 - 1/8 size of Pico binary.</li> | |
153 | </UL> | |
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155 | </td><td> | |
156 | ||
157 | <UL> | |
158 | <li>Slang and ncurses support.</li> | |
159 | <li>Autoindent abillity.</li> | |
160 | <li>Displayed tab width option. </li> | |
161 | <li>Regular expression search and replace. </li> | |
162 | <li>Toggles for command-line flags via Meta keys. </li> | |
163 | <li>Tab completion when reading/writing files. </li> | |
164 | </UL> | |
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166 | </td></tr></table> | |
167 | </blockquote> | |
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169 | </td> | |
170 | </tr> | |
171 | </table> | |
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