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12<center><b><big>News</big></b></center>
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202020 March 31 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.1</b> "Sapperdeflap"
21<br>
22<table><tr><td>
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23 Two bugs introduced in version 4.9 are fixed: the cursor<br>
24 getting misplaced when undoing line cuts, and filtering<br>
25 of the whole buffer to a new buffer not working.
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27<br><br>
28
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292020 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.9</b> "die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"
30<br>
31<table><tr><td><ul>
32<li>When justifying a selection, the new paragraph and the<br>
33 succeeding one get the appropriate first-line indent.</li>
34<li>Trying to justify an empty selection does not crash.</li>
35<li>Redoing the insertion of an empty file does not crash.</li>
36<li>On the BSDs and macOS, <tt>^H</tt> has become rebindable again<br>
37 (in most terminal emulators, not on the console).</li>
38<li>DOS line endings in nanorc files are accepted.</li>
39<li>Option <tt>--suspend</tt> / 'set suspend' has been renamed to<br>
40 the more logical <tt>--suspendable</tt> / 'set suspendable'.</li>
41</ul></td></tr></table>
42<br><br>
43
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442020 February 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.8</b> "Ja&scaron;ka"
45<br>
46<table><tr><td><ul>
47<li>When something is pasted into nano, auto-indentation is suppressed,<br>
48 and the paste can be undone as a whole with a single <tt>M-U</tt>.</li>
49<li>When a lock file is encountered during startup, pressing <tt>^C</tt>/Cancel<br>
50 quits nano. (Pressing 'No' just skips the file and continues.)</li>
51<li>Shift+Meta+letter key combos can be bound with 'bind Sh-M-letter'.<br>
52 Making any such binding dismisses the default behavior of ignoring<br>
53 Shift for all Meta+letter keystrokes.</li>
54<li>The configuration option <tt>--with-slang</tt> (to be avoided when possible)<br>
55 can now be used only together with <tt>--enable-tiny</tt>.</li>
56<li>A custom nanorc file can be specified on the command line, with<br>
57 <tt>-f filename</tt> or <tt>--rcfile=filename</tt>.</li>
58</ul></td></tr></table>
59<br><br>
60
21d362bb 612019 December 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.7</b> "Havikskruid"
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62<br>
63<table><tr><td><ul>
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64<li>A &lt;Tab&gt; will indent a marked region only when mark and cursor are<br>
65 on different lines.</li>
66<li>Two indentations (any mix of tabs and spaces) are considered the<br>
67 same when they look the same (that is: indent to the same level).</li>
68<li>When using <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> or <tt>^J</tt>, a line will never be broken in<br>
69 its leading whitespace or quoting.</li>
70<li>The keywords in nanorc files must be in lowercase.</li>
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71</ul></td></tr></table>
72<br><br>
21d362bb 73
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742019 November 29 - <b>GNU nano 4.6</b> "And don't you eat that yellow snow"
75<br>
76<table><tr><td><ul>
77<li>The 'formatter' command has returned, bound by default to <tt>M-F</tt>.<br>
78 It allows running a syntax-specific command on the contents of<br>
79 the buffer.</li>
36934144 80<li><tt>^T</tt> will try to run 'hunspell' before 'spell', because it checks<br>
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81 spellling for the locale's language and understands UTF-8.</li>
82<li>Multiple errors or warnings on startup will no longer slow nano<br>
83 down but will be indicated on the status bar with trailing dots.</li>
84</ul></td></tr></table>
85<br><br>
86
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872019 October 4 - <b>GNU nano 4.5</b> "Ko&scaron;ice"
88<br>
89<table><tr><td><ul>
90<li>The new 'tabgives' command allows you to specify per syntax what<br>
91 the &lt;Tab&gt; key should produce: some spaces, a hard TAB, ...</li>
92<li>The output of <tt>--help</tt> is properly aligned again for all languages.</li>
93<li>&lt;Tab&gt; will indent a marked region also when <tt>M-}</tt> has been rebound.</li>
94</ul></td></tr></table>
95<br><br>
96
ae82a2d1 972019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> "Hagelslag"
fcb625d4 98<br>
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99<table><tr><td><ul>
100<li>At startup, the cursor can be put on the first or last occurrence<br>
101 of a string by preceding the filename with <tt>+/string</tt> or <tt>+?string</tt>.</li>
102<li>When automatic hard-wrapping occurs (<tt>--breaklonglines</tt>), any leading<br>
103 quoting characters will be automatically copied to the new line.</li>
a739c60d 104<li><tt>M-6</tt> works again also when the cursor is at end of buffer.</li>
ae82a2d1 105</ul></td></tr></table>
fcb625d4 106<br><br>
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84553b52 1082019 June 18 - <b>GNU nano 4.3</b> "Musa Kart"
fcb625d4 109<br>
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110<table><tr><td><ul>
111<li>The ability to read from and write to a FIFO has been regained.</li>
112<li>Startup time is reduced by fully parsing a syntax only when needed.</li>
113<li>Asking for help (<tt>^G</tt>) when using <tt>--operatingdir</tt> does not crash.</li>
114<li>The reading of a huge or slow file can be stopped with <tt>^C</tt>.</li>
115<li>Cut, zap, and copy operations are undone separately when intermixed.</li>
116<li><tt>M-D</tt> reports the correct number of lines (zero for an empty buffer).</li>
117</ul></td></tr></table>
fcb625d4 118<br><br>
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933f5300 1202019 April 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.2</b> "Tax the rich, pay the teachers"
fcb625d4 121<br>
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122<table><tr><td><ul>
123<li>The integrated spell checker does not crash when 'spell' is missing.</li>
094a026a 124<li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> works also when <tt>--ignorercfiles</tt> is used.</li>
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125<li>Automatic hard-wrapping is more persistent in pushing words to the<br>
126 same overflow line.</li>
127</ul></td></tr></table>
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933f5300 1302019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> "Qu&eacute; corchos ser&aacute; eso?"
fcb625d4 131<br>
f5d848f8 132<table><tr><td><ul>
3a9f2f9b 133<li>By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the<br>
f5d848f8 134 end of a buffer, to produce valid POSIX text files by default, but<br>
3a9f2f9b 135 also to get back the easy adding of text at the bottom.</li>
094a026a 136<li>The now unneeded option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) has been removed.</li>
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137<li>Syntax files are read in alphabetical order when globbing, so that<br>
138 the precedence of syntaxes becomes predictable.</li>
139<li>In the C syntax, preprocessor directives are highlighted differently.</li>
094a026a 140<li><tt>M-S</tt> now toggles soft wrapping, and <tt>M-N</tt> toggles line numbers.</li>
f5d848f8 141<li>The jumpy-scrolling toggle has been removed.</li>
094a026a 142<li>The legacy keystrokes <tt>^W^Y</tt> and <tt>^W^V</tt> are recognized again.</li>
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143<li>Executing an external command is disallowed when in view mode.</li>
144<li>Problems with resizing during external or speller commands were fixed.</li>
145</ul></td></tr></table>
fcb625d4 146<br><br>
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933f5300 1482019 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.0</b> "Thy Rope of Sands"
fcb625d4 149<br>
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150<table><tr><td><ul>
151<li>An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped.</li>
152<li>Smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default.</li>
153<li>A newline character is no longer automatically added at end of buffer.</li>
154<li>The line below the title bar is by default part of the editing space.</li>
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155<li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> (<tt>-b</tt>) turns automatic hard-wrapping back on.</li>
156<li>Option <tt>--jumpyscrolling</tt> (<tt>-j</tt>) gives the chunky, half-screen scrolling.</li>
157<li>Option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) brings back the automatic newline at EOF.</li>
158<li>Option <tt>--emptyline</tt> (<tt>-e</tt>) leaves the line below the title bar unused.</li>
d94a27bb 159<li>&lt;Alt+Up&gt; and &lt;Alt+Down&gt; now do a linewise scroll instead of a findnext.</li>
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160<li>Any number of justifications can be undone (like all other operations).</li>
161<li>When marked text is justified, it becomes a single, separate paragraph.</li>
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162<li>Option <tt>--guidestripe=&lt;number&gt;</tt> draws a vertical bar at the given column.</li>
163<li>Option <tt>--fill=&lt;number&gt;</tt> no longer turns on automatic hard-wrapping.</li>
47ae3021 164<li>When a line continues offscreen, it now ends with a highlighted "&gt;".</li>
616ce731 165<li>The halves of a split two-column character are shown as "[" and "]".</li>
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166<li>A line now scrolls horizontally one column earlier.</li>
167<li>The bindable functions 'cutwordleft' and 'cutwordright' were renamed<br>
168 to 'chopwordleft' and 'chopwordright' as they don't use the cutbuffer.</li>
169<li>The paragraph-jumping functions were moved from Search to Go-to-Line.</li>
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170<li>Option <tt>--rebinddelete</tt> is able to compensate for more misbindings.</li>
171<li>Options <tt>--morespace</tt> and <tt>--smooth</tt> are obsolete and thus ignored.</li>
172<li>The <tt>--disable-wrapping-as-root</tt> configure option was removed.</li>
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1782018 November 11
179
180GNU nano 3.2 "Het kromme hout" changes the default binding
181for the linter to M-B so that the spell checker (^T) can
182always be used, and changes (when linting) the text in the
183title bar and the color of the status bar to make linting
184mode more obvious. It also adds a bindable 'zap' function
185for deleting a line or marked region without changing the
67c6d961 186cutbuffer, adds --zap to bind the &lt;Del&gt; and &lt;Backspace&gt;
eb64fc57 187keys to the zap function when something is marked, and
67c6d961 188hard-binds &lt;Alt+Del&gt; to 'zap'. Furthermore, it shows the
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189cursor also in the help viewer (when --showcursor is used),
190renames the bindable functions 'prevhistory' to 'older' and
191'nexthistory' to 'newer' (update your nanorcs when needed),
192reads the nanorc files also in restricted mode to allow
193customization by the user (if this should not be allowed,
194use --ignorercfiles in addition to --restricted), allows
195in view mode to open also other files (if this should not
196be allowed, use --restricted in addition to --view), makes
197resizes respect a relative --fill again, no longer binds
198F13...F15 by default, properly re-highlights a misspelled
199word after invoking help in the internal spell checker,
200and does not skip Unicode characters in string binds.
201
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2042018 September 18
205
206GNU nano 3.1 "Je faisais des bonds comme &ccedil;a!" fixes a
207misbinding of ^H on some terminals and some systems,
208does not leave stray stuff after the prompt upon exit
209when having suspended nano while using --constantshow,
210and does not allow to toggle to Replace in view mode.
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2142018 September 9
215
216GNU nano 3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the
217reading of a file by seventy percent, roughly doubles the
218speed of handling ASCII text, changes the way words at line
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219boundaries are deleted, makes &lt;Ctrl+Delete&gt; wipe the next
220word and &lt;Ctrl+Shift+Delete&gt; the preceding word, binds M-Q
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221to 'findprevious' by default (the Tabs-to-Spaces toggle is
222placed on M-O, and the More-Space toggle is fully removed),
223makes an external spell check undoable, shows the correct
224number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple
225files, removes the 'formatter' command, removes the
226'searchagain' bindable function (M-W is now bound to
227'findnext' by default), moves the No-Convert toggle to the
228Insert menu, removes the Backup and New-Buffer toggles from
229the main menu (they remain in the Write-Out and Insert
230menus, respectively), is more precise in what it accepts as
0c351168 231a rebindable key name, ignores any presses of &lt;Esc&gt; before
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232a valid command keystroke, recognizes some more escape
233sequences for modified editing-pad keys, does not hide
234rcfile error messages on a Linux console, renames the
235bindable functions 'copytext' to 'copy' and 'uncut' to
236'paste', and avoids a possible hang during a Full-Justify.
237
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2402018 June 2
241
242GNU nano 2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the
243buffer (or the marked region) through an external command
244(^R^X and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is
245better at detecting and maintaining paragraphs, is able to
246justify //-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding
247of a key to a string lacks a closing quote, gives feedback
248about the number of lines written also when prepending or
249appending, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter.
250
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254
255GNU nano 2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option '--afterends'
256for making Ctrl+Right (the nextword function) stop at word
257ends instead of beginnings, accepts multibyte letters for
258the Yes/No/All answers, does emergency saves of changed
259buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes, adds the
260until-now missing bindable function 'linenumbers', and
261renames the toggles 'constupdate' to 'constantshow' and
262'cuttoend' to 'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the
263corresponding options -- adjust your nanorc files soon.
264
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2672018 April 27
268
269GNU nano 2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion,
270makes --enable-altrcname work again, improves the fluidity
271of scrolling when using the touchpad, tweaks the syntaxes
272for shell scripts and PO files, makes a replacing session
273go always forward by default, no longer inserts a newline
274after an external spell check of a selected region, always
275accepts the English Y and N (and A) at a yes-no prompt in
276any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs.
277
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281
282GNU nano 2.9.5 "Ki&scaron;a pada" changes the way the Scroll-Up
283and Scroll-Down commands work (M-- and M-+): instead of
284keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now
285keep the cursor in the same text position (if possible).
286This version further adds a new color name, "normal",
287which gives the default foreground or background color,
288which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous
289painting by earlier syntax regexes. Bug fixes include:
290a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted
291mode, the reading in of a new file being "undoable", a
292slight miswrapping of help texts when --linenumbers was
293used, and the shell syntax coloring the word "tar" in
294file names.
295
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2982018 March 8
299
300GNU nano 2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a string
301(any piece of text and/or commands), permits customizing
302the color of error messages with 'set errorcolor', colors
303those error messages by default in bright white on red,
0c351168 304makes &lt;Enter&gt; at the bottom of the screen scroll just one
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305row when --smooth is used, does not fail when redoing a
306file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any
307cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor
308cannot move. Further, it treats tabs fully the same as
309spaces when doing automatic hard-wrapping, allows syntax
310names to be unquoted, and removes two deprecated options
311and six deprecated bindable function names.
312
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3152018 January 29
316
317GNU nano 2.9.3 "C&oacute;rdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks
318that could occur when a typed space caused the word after
319it to be pushed to the next line. It further makes macros
320work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences,
321adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line,
322recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals,
323no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible
aa32601b 324whitespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing
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325replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named
326pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects
327a needed color change when a line contains a start match
328but not a corresponding end match any more. Plus some
329other small fry.
330
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334
335GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified
336state when undoing/redoing (also when the file was saved
337somewhere midway), improves the undoing of an automatic
338linefeed at EOF, fixes a build issue on the BSDs, shows
339the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames
340the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will
341now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing
342(and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words
343to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes
690585d0 344&lt;Tab&gt; and &lt;Shift+Tab&gt; indent and unindent a marked region,
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345allows unindenting when not all lines are indented, lets a
346region marked with Shift persist when indenting/unindenting
347or commenting/uncommenting it, and in those cases excludes
348the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked
349(which makes for a more intuitive behavior).
350
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354
355GNU nano 2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where, when the mark
356is on, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked
357region. This release further clears the "Modified" flag
358when all edits are undone, adds or updates some magic
359strings, and does not forget when the cursor was last
360at line 1, column 1.
361
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3642017 November 18
365
366GNU nano 2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record and
367replay keystrokes (M-: to start and stop recording, M-;
368to play the macro back), makes ^Q and ^S do something
369useful by default (^Q starts a backward search, and ^S
370saves the current file), changes ^W to start always a
371forward search, shows the number of open buffers (when
372more than one) in the title bar, no longer asks to press
373Enter when there are errors in an rc file, retires the
374options '--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards',
375makes indenting and unindenting undoable, will look in
376$XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file and in $XDG_DATA_HOME
377for the history files, adds a history stack for executed
378commands (^R^X), does not overwrite the position-history
379file of another nano, and fixes a score of tiny bugs.
380
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384
385GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are
386wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting
387more predictable by retaining relative indentations,
388allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes
389in Python to not be followed by a character, does not
390scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds
391Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and
392fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping
393and boundary-crossing tabs. Enjoy.
394
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3972017 July 21
398
2031a280 399GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekul&eacute;" offers a new feature: the ability
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400to do softwrapping between words -- at whitespace --
401instead of always at the edge of the screen. This can
402be activated with -a or --atblanks or 'set atblanks'
403together with the softwrap option. This release further
404fixes a handful of rare display glitches, fixes a build
405failure on AIX, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc
406files, and renames the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor'
407(please update your nanorc files before 2020).
408
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412
413GNU nano 2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from
414a suspension that was induced from the outside, allows
415negative line and column numbers on the command line,
416avoids some flickering when resizing the screen while
417in the file browser, opens files in the order they were
418mentioned on the command line, and does not pretend to
419have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT.
420
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424
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425GNU nano 2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc
426man page again.
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4302017 May 18
431
432GNU nano 2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight
433during interactive replacing, avoids build failures on AIX
434and Solaris, fixes a crash on Solaris, speeds up backwards
435searching, improves PHP syntax highlighting, and no longer
8f3b8915 436asks "save anyway?" when the user ^Q discards the buffer.
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4402017 May 4
441
442GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" adds another new feature: it makes
443the ^G help texts searchable with ^W. Apart from that,
444it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle
445of verbatim input, avoids an unlikely crash when used
446without UTF-8 support in some locales, avoids redrawing
447the screen twice when switching between buffers while
448line numbers are active, and works around a coloring
449bug on musl. Plus tweaks to the documentation; plus
450translation updates for fifteen languages.
451
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4542017 April 12
455
456GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS and
457on musl, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when
458double-width characters on row boundaries are involved,
0a09732f 459shows double-width characters as "&gt;" and "&lt;" when split
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460across two rows, moves the cursor more predictably (at
461the cost of sometimes putting it on the second "half"
462of a character), avoids creating lines that consist of
463only blanks when using autoindent, makes ^Home and ^End
464go to the start and end of the file (on terminals that
465support those keystrokes), places the cursor better when
466linting, lets the linter ask only once whether to open
467an included file, and adds bindings for ^Up and ^Down
468in the file browser. Don't sit on your hands.
469
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4722017 March 31
473
474GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in
475softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from
476visual row to visual row instead of jumping between
477logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to
478the start and end of a row, and only when already
479there, then to the start and end of the logical line.
480Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead
481of always per logical line. On an entirely different
482front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build
483on more platforms. In short: there were many internal
484changes, not many user-visible ones (apart form the
485new softwrap navigation). The conversion to gnulib
486was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by
487David Ramsey.
488
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492
493GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace
494the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things
495when multiline regexes with identical start and end are
496involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches,
497does replacements at the edges of a marked region right,
498no longer hides double-width characters at the head of
499softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at
500startup, and documents the ability to read a file from
501standard input. Come tickle my ears.
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506
507GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly
508manner again (bug was introduced in previous version),
509sets the preferred x position for vertical movements
510more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in
511softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your
512system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of
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519GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs:
520your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain
521newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching
522between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes,
523makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a
524Linux console, is more resistant against malformations
525in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is
526typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL.
527Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an
528unlocked file just after saving a new one. That's it.
529Tastes great with thick butter.
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535GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature:
536the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default)
537a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in
538the current buffer. Besides, this release fixes two bugs
539related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to
540use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on
541VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering
542during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override
543an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected
544region after an external spell check, and improves a few
545other tidbits. If you should find any more bugs, please
546run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there.
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552GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the
553ability to display line numbers beside the text. This can
554be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line,
555or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with
556M-#. The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the
557option 'set numbercolor'. This release furthermore fixes
558some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict
559in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer
560as modified when the output of a command (^R ^X) has been
561read into it. Come and check it out!
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567GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to be
568selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys.
569Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny
570terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves
571the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces. Not much,
572but it's time to get it out there.
573
574With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while
575we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd,
576back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass.
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582nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on
583a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very
584first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it
585holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits
586(when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug
587in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in
588a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid
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595nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the
596keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks
597of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which
598characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered
599word-forming. Further, it provides feedback during Unicode
600input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which
601must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the
602window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after
603having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line
604anchor (^) just once per line. There are also several tiny
605improvements in screen rendering and key handling.
606Come get your hair tousled!
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612nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but also
613adds one little feature (the ability to use negative numbers
614with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom),
615includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes three tiny
616bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren't
617even worth mentioning).
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623nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and
624some of them not so little. It improves moving about in
625the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell
626checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with
627default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer,
628shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor
629is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if
630there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes
631when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename
632on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches,
633and allows to abort re-searches. Among bunches of other
634things. It is worth the trouble to upgrade.
635
636And, with this release, we take leave of the herd...
637Bye! And thanks for all the grass!
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