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<center><b>History</b></center>
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Improvements made in version 2.6:<br>

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<UL>
<li>Trailing whitespace can be snipped from justified paragraphs.</li>
<li>Better feedback when a file is unwritable or a directory inaccessible.</li>
<li>Bindable functions for deleting a word to the left and to the right.</li>
<li>A bindable function for saving the current file without prompting for its name.<br><br></li>

<li>Commenting/uncommenting lines with a single keystroke (M-3).</li>
<li>Resizing the window does not exit from help viewer nor file browser.</li>
<li>On some terminals Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right jump to previous and next word.</li>
<li>A steadier movement of the highlight in the file browser.</li>
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Improvements made in version 2.4:<br>

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<UL>
<li>The ability to give different colors to title bar, status bar and help lines.</li>
<li>Linter support, for automatically putting the cursor on syntax errors.</li>
<li>Formatter support, for normalizing the layout of a text instead of the spelling.</li>
<li>The undo/redo system has reached a usable state and is enabled by default.<br><br></li>

<li>No longer finds "ghosts" of certain UTF-8 characters.</li>
<li>Makes the mouse usable again for clicking on shortcuts.</li>
<li>Fixes several syntax coloring issues.</li>
<li>Adds more syntax highlighting examples (Go, guile, javascript, json, PO files, texinfo, ...).</li>
</UL>

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Improvements made in version 2.2:<br>

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<UL>
<li>Customizable key bindings.</li>
<li>Abortable searching (^C after ^W).</li>
<li>Partial undo/redo support [EXPERIMENTAL].</li>
<li>Pager support (i.e. reading from stdin).</li>
</UL>

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<UL>
<li>Warnings for unwritable files and for external modification since opening.</li>
<li>"Soft" line wrapping (i.e. display of complete lines).</li>
<li>More syntax highlighting examples (Fortran, objC, OCaml, Makefiles).</li>
<li>Faster syntax highlighting for complicated regexes.</li>
</UL>

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Improvements made in version 2.0:<br>

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<UL>
<li>UTF-8 support.</li>
<li>Improved color syntax highlighting.</li>
<li>Copy text without cutting it.</li>
<li>Verbatim input mode.</li>
<li>Repeat last seach (Meta-W).</li>
</UL>

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<li>Spell check/replace selected text only.</li>
<li>Indent marked text.</li>
<li>Move to beginning/end of paragraph.</li>
<li>Search within the file browser.</li>
<li>Auto-conversion of mixed file format.</li>
</UL>

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Improvements made in version 1.2:<br>

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<UL>
<li>More Pico compatible by default.</li>
<li>Smooth scrolling (-S flag).</li>
<li>Bracket matching (Meta-]).</li>
<li>.nanorc support.</li>
<li>Color syntax highlighting.</li>
<li>Search and replace history editing.</li>
<li>Customizable quoting string (-Q flag).</li>
</UL>

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<UL>
<li>Append/prepend from write file menu.</li>
<li>Write selected text to file (^O after ^^).</li>
<li>Multiple file buffers (-F flag).</li>
<li>Support for Mac and DOS file format.</li>
<li>Saved search/replace history (-H flag).</li>
<li>Backup files (-B flag).</li>
<li>Insert output of command (^X after ^R).</li>
</UL>

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Version 1.0 had the following features:<br>

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<li>Autoconf support.</li>
<li>Truly free license (GNU GPL).</li>
<li>Goto-line command without a flag.</li>
<li>Case-sensitive search function.</li>
<li>Interactive search and replace.</li>
<li>About half the size of the Pico binary.</li>
</UL>

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<li>Slang and ncurses support.</li>
<li>Autoindent abillity.</li>
<li>Displayed tab width option.</li>
<li>Regular-expression search and replace.</li>
<li>Toggles for command-line flags via Meta keys.</li>
<li>Tab completion when reading/writing files.</li>
</UL>

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