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12<center><b><big>News</big></b></center>
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202020 May 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.3</b> "Almendras"
21<br><br>
22<table><tr><td>
23 One more bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a crash when
24 the terminal screen is resized while at a lock-file prompt.
25</td></tr></table>
26<br><br>
27
c78fafd2 282020 April 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.2</b> "Mali Lo&scaron;inj"
f0146453 29<br><br>
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31 Another bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a likely crash<br>
cba23c33 32 after undoing an &lt;Enter&gt; at the end of leading whitespace.
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34<br><br>
35
cded4212 362020 March 31 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.1</b> "Sapperdeflap"
f0146453 37<br><br>
cded4212 38<table><tr><td>
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39 Two bugs introduced in version 4.9 are fixed: the cursor<br>
40 getting misplaced when undoing line cuts, and filtering<br>
41 of the whole buffer to a new buffer not working.
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43<br><br>
44
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452020 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.9</b> "die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"
46<br>
47<table><tr><td><ul>
48<li>When justifying a selection, the new paragraph and the<br>
49 succeeding one get the appropriate first-line indent.</li>
50<li>Trying to justify an empty selection does not crash.</li>
51<li>Redoing the insertion of an empty file does not crash.</li>
52<li>On the BSDs and macOS, <tt>^H</tt> has become rebindable again<br>
53 (in most terminal emulators, not on the console).</li>
54<li>DOS line endings in nanorc files are accepted.</li>
55<li>Option <tt>--suspend</tt> / 'set suspend' has been renamed to<br>
56 the more logical <tt>--suspendable</tt> / 'set suspendable'.</li>
57</ul></td></tr></table>
58<br><br>
59
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602020 February 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.8</b> "Ja&scaron;ka"
61<br>
62<table><tr><td><ul>
63<li>When something is pasted into nano, auto-indentation is suppressed,<br>
64 and the paste can be undone as a whole with a single <tt>M-U</tt>.</li>
65<li>When a lock file is encountered during startup, pressing <tt>^C</tt>/Cancel<br>
66 quits nano. (Pressing 'No' just skips the file and continues.)</li>
67<li>Shift+Meta+letter key combos can be bound with 'bind Sh-M-letter'.<br>
68 Making any such binding dismisses the default behavior of ignoring<br>
69 Shift for all Meta+letter keystrokes.</li>
70<li>The configuration option <tt>--with-slang</tt> (to be avoided when possible)<br>
71 can now be used only together with <tt>--enable-tiny</tt>.</li>
72<li>A custom nanorc file can be specified on the command line, with<br>
73 <tt>-f filename</tt> or <tt>--rcfile=filename</tt>.</li>
74</ul></td></tr></table>
75<br><br>
76
21d362bb 772019 December 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.7</b> "Havikskruid"
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78<br>
79<table><tr><td><ul>
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80<li>A &lt;Tab&gt; will indent a marked region only when mark and cursor are<br>
81 on different lines.</li>
82<li>Two indentations (any mix of tabs and spaces) are considered the<br>
83 same when they look the same (that is: indent to the same level).</li>
84<li>When using <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> or <tt>^J</tt>, a line will never be broken in<br>
85 its leading whitespace or quoting.</li>
86<li>The keywords in nanorc files must be in lowercase.</li>
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87</ul></td></tr></table>
88<br><br>
21d362bb 89
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902019 November 29 - <b>GNU nano 4.6</b> "And don't you eat that yellow snow"
91<br>
92<table><tr><td><ul>
93<li>The 'formatter' command has returned, bound by default to <tt>M-F</tt>.<br>
94 It allows running a syntax-specific command on the contents of<br>
95 the buffer.</li>
36934144 96<li><tt>^T</tt> will try to run 'hunspell' before 'spell', because it checks<br>
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97 spellling for the locale's language and understands UTF-8.</li>
98<li>Multiple errors or warnings on startup will no longer slow nano<br>
99 down but will be indicated on the status bar with trailing dots.</li>
100</ul></td></tr></table>
101<br><br>
102
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1032019 October 4 - <b>GNU nano 4.5</b> "Ko&scaron;ice"
104<br>
105<table><tr><td><ul>
106<li>The new 'tabgives' command allows you to specify per syntax what<br>
107 the &lt;Tab&gt; key should produce: some spaces, a hard TAB, ...</li>
108<li>The output of <tt>--help</tt> is properly aligned again for all languages.</li>
109<li>&lt;Tab&gt; will indent a marked region also when <tt>M-}</tt> has been rebound.</li>
110</ul></td></tr></table>
111<br><br>
112
ae82a2d1 1132019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> "Hagelslag"
fcb625d4 114<br>
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115<table><tr><td><ul>
116<li>At startup, the cursor can be put on the first or last occurrence<br>
117 of a string by preceding the filename with <tt>+/string</tt> or <tt>+?string</tt>.</li>
118<li>When automatic hard-wrapping occurs (<tt>--breaklonglines</tt>), any leading<br>
119 quoting characters will be automatically copied to the new line.</li>
a739c60d 120<li><tt>M-6</tt> works again also when the cursor is at end of buffer.</li>
ae82a2d1 121</ul></td></tr></table>
fcb625d4 122<br><br>
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84553b52 1242019 June 18 - <b>GNU nano 4.3</b> "Musa Kart"
fcb625d4 125<br>
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126<table><tr><td><ul>
127<li>The ability to read from and write to a FIFO has been regained.</li>
128<li>Startup time is reduced by fully parsing a syntax only when needed.</li>
129<li>Asking for help (<tt>^G</tt>) when using <tt>--operatingdir</tt> does not crash.</li>
130<li>The reading of a huge or slow file can be stopped with <tt>^C</tt>.</li>
131<li>Cut, zap, and copy operations are undone separately when intermixed.</li>
132<li><tt>M-D</tt> reports the correct number of lines (zero for an empty buffer).</li>
133</ul></td></tr></table>
fcb625d4 134<br><br>
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933f5300 1362019 April 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.2</b> "Tax the rich, pay the teachers"
fcb625d4 137<br>
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138<table><tr><td><ul>
139<li>The integrated spell checker does not crash when 'spell' is missing.</li>
094a026a 140<li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> works also when <tt>--ignorercfiles</tt> is used.</li>
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141<li>Automatic hard-wrapping is more persistent in pushing words to the<br>
142 same overflow line.</li>
143</ul></td></tr></table>
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933f5300 1462019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> "Qu&eacute; corchos ser&aacute; eso?"
fcb625d4 147<br>
f5d848f8 148<table><tr><td><ul>
3a9f2f9b 149<li>By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the<br>
f5d848f8 150 end of a buffer, to produce valid POSIX text files by default, but<br>
3a9f2f9b 151 also to get back the easy adding of text at the bottom.</li>
094a026a 152<li>The now unneeded option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) has been removed.</li>
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153<li>Syntax files are read in alphabetical order when globbing, so that<br>
154 the precedence of syntaxes becomes predictable.</li>
155<li>In the C syntax, preprocessor directives are highlighted differently.</li>
094a026a 156<li><tt>M-S</tt> now toggles soft wrapping, and <tt>M-N</tt> toggles line numbers.</li>
f5d848f8 157<li>The jumpy-scrolling toggle has been removed.</li>
094a026a 158<li>The legacy keystrokes <tt>^W^Y</tt> and <tt>^W^V</tt> are recognized again.</li>
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159<li>Executing an external command is disallowed when in view mode.</li>
160<li>Problems with resizing during external or speller commands were fixed.</li>
161</ul></td></tr></table>
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933f5300 1642019 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.0</b> "Thy Rope of Sands"
fcb625d4 165<br>
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166<table><tr><td><ul>
167<li>An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped.</li>
168<li>Smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default.</li>
169<li>A newline character is no longer automatically added at end of buffer.</li>
170<li>The line below the title bar is by default part of the editing space.</li>
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171<li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> (<tt>-b</tt>) turns automatic hard-wrapping back on.</li>
172<li>Option <tt>--jumpyscrolling</tt> (<tt>-j</tt>) gives the chunky, half-screen scrolling.</li>
173<li>Option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) brings back the automatic newline at EOF.</li>
174<li>Option <tt>--emptyline</tt> (<tt>-e</tt>) leaves the line below the title bar unused.</li>
d94a27bb 175<li>&lt;Alt+Up&gt; and &lt;Alt+Down&gt; now do a linewise scroll instead of a findnext.</li>
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176<li>Any number of justifications can be undone (like all other operations).</li>
177<li>When marked text is justified, it becomes a single, separate paragraph.</li>
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178<li>Option <tt>--guidestripe=&lt;number&gt;</tt> draws a vertical bar at the given column.</li>
179<li>Option <tt>--fill=&lt;number&gt;</tt> no longer turns on automatic hard-wrapping.</li>
47ae3021 180<li>When a line continues offscreen, it now ends with a highlighted "&gt;".</li>
616ce731 181<li>The halves of a split two-column character are shown as "[" and "]".</li>
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182<li>A line now scrolls horizontally one column earlier.</li>
183<li>The bindable functions 'cutwordleft' and 'cutwordright' were renamed<br>
184 to 'chopwordleft' and 'chopwordright' as they don't use the cutbuffer.</li>
185<li>The paragraph-jumping functions were moved from Search to Go-to-Line.</li>
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186<li>Option <tt>--rebinddelete</tt> is able to compensate for more misbindings.</li>
187<li>Options <tt>--morespace</tt> and <tt>--smooth</tt> are obsolete and thus ignored.</li>
188<li>The <tt>--disable-wrapping-as-root</tt> configure option was removed.</li>
e2ca83a4 189</ul></td></tr></table>
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1942018 November 11
195
196GNU nano 3.2 "Het kromme hout" changes the default binding
197for the linter to M-B so that the spell checker (^T) can
198always be used, and changes (when linting) the text in the
199title bar and the color of the status bar to make linting
200mode more obvious. It also adds a bindable 'zap' function
201for deleting a line or marked region without changing the
67c6d961 202cutbuffer, adds --zap to bind the &lt;Del&gt; and &lt;Backspace&gt;
eb64fc57 203keys to the zap function when something is marked, and
67c6d961 204hard-binds &lt;Alt+Del&gt; to 'zap'. Furthermore, it shows the
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205cursor also in the help viewer (when --showcursor is used),
206renames the bindable functions 'prevhistory' to 'older' and
207'nexthistory' to 'newer' (update your nanorcs when needed),
208reads the nanorc files also in restricted mode to allow
209customization by the user (if this should not be allowed,
210use --ignorercfiles in addition to --restricted), allows
211in view mode to open also other files (if this should not
212be allowed, use --restricted in addition to --view), makes
213resizes respect a relative --fill again, no longer binds
214F13...F15 by default, properly re-highlights a misspelled
215word after invoking help in the internal spell checker,
216and does not skip Unicode characters in string binds.
217
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2202018 September 18
221
222GNU nano 3.1 "Je faisais des bonds comme &ccedil;a!" fixes a
223misbinding of ^H on some terminals and some systems,
224does not leave stray stuff after the prompt upon exit
225when having suspended nano while using --constantshow,
226and does not allow to toggle to Replace in view mode.
227
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2302018 September 9
231
232GNU nano 3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the
233reading of a file by seventy percent, roughly doubles the
234speed of handling ASCII text, changes the way words at line
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235boundaries are deleted, makes &lt;Ctrl+Delete&gt; wipe the next
236word and &lt;Ctrl+Shift+Delete&gt; the preceding word, binds M-Q
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237to 'findprevious' by default (the Tabs-to-Spaces toggle is
238placed on M-O, and the More-Space toggle is fully removed),
239makes an external spell check undoable, shows the correct
240number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple
241files, removes the 'formatter' command, removes the
242'searchagain' bindable function (M-W is now bound to
243'findnext' by default), moves the No-Convert toggle to the
244Insert menu, removes the Backup and New-Buffer toggles from
245the main menu (they remain in the Write-Out and Insert
246menus, respectively), is more precise in what it accepts as
0c351168 247a rebindable key name, ignores any presses of &lt;Esc&gt; before
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248a valid command keystroke, recognizes some more escape
249sequences for modified editing-pad keys, does not hide
250rcfile error messages on a Linux console, renames the
251bindable functions 'copytext' to 'copy' and 'uncut' to
252'paste', and avoids a possible hang during a Full-Justify.
253
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2562018 June 2
257
258GNU nano 2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the
259buffer (or the marked region) through an external command
260(^R^X and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is
261better at detecting and maintaining paragraphs, is able to
262justify //-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding
263of a key to a string lacks a closing quote, gives feedback
264about the number of lines written also when prepending or
265appending, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter.
266
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2692018 May 15
270
271GNU nano 2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option '--afterends'
272for making Ctrl+Right (the nextword function) stop at word
273ends instead of beginnings, accepts multibyte letters for
274the Yes/No/All answers, does emergency saves of changed
275buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes, adds the
276until-now missing bindable function 'linenumbers', and
277renames the toggles 'constupdate' to 'constantshow' and
278'cuttoend' to 'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the
279corresponding options -- adjust your nanorc files soon.
280
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284
285GNU nano 2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion,
286makes --enable-altrcname work again, improves the fluidity
287of scrolling when using the touchpad, tweaks the syntaxes
288for shell scripts and PO files, makes a replacing session
289go always forward by default, no longer inserts a newline
290after an external spell check of a selected region, always
291accepts the English Y and N (and A) at a yes-no prompt in
292any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs.
293
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297
298GNU nano 2.9.5 "Ki&scaron;a pada" changes the way the Scroll-Up
299and Scroll-Down commands work (M-- and M-+): instead of
300keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now
301keep the cursor in the same text position (if possible).
302This version further adds a new color name, "normal",
303which gives the default foreground or background color,
304which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous
305painting by earlier syntax regexes. Bug fixes include:
306a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted
307mode, the reading in of a new file being "undoable", a
308slight miswrapping of help texts when --linenumbers was
309used, and the shell syntax coloring the word "tar" in
310file names.
311
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3142018 March 8
315
316GNU nano 2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a string
317(any piece of text and/or commands), permits customizing
318the color of error messages with 'set errorcolor', colors
319those error messages by default in bright white on red,
0c351168 320makes &lt;Enter&gt; at the bottom of the screen scroll just one
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321row when --smooth is used, does not fail when redoing a
322file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any
323cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor
324cannot move. Further, it treats tabs fully the same as
325spaces when doing automatic hard-wrapping, allows syntax
326names to be unquoted, and removes two deprecated options
327and six deprecated bindable function names.
328
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332
333GNU nano 2.9.3 "C&oacute;rdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks
334that could occur when a typed space caused the word after
335it to be pushed to the next line. It further makes macros
336work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences,
337adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line,
338recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals,
339no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible
aa32601b 340whitespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing
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341replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named
342pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects
343a needed color change when a line contains a start match
344but not a corresponding end match any more. Plus some
345other small fry.
346
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3492018 January 2
350
351GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified
352state when undoing/redoing (also when the file was saved
353somewhere midway), improves the undoing of an automatic
354linefeed at EOF, fixes a build issue on the BSDs, shows
355the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames
356the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will
357now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing
358(and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words
359to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes
690585d0 360&lt;Tab&gt; and &lt;Shift+Tab&gt; indent and unindent a marked region,
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361allows unindenting when not all lines are indented, lets a
362region marked with Shift persist when indenting/unindenting
363or commenting/uncommenting it, and in those cases excludes
364the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked
365(which makes for a more intuitive behavior).
366
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3692017 November 27
370
371GNU nano 2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where, when the mark
372is on, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked
373region. This release further clears the "Modified" flag
374when all edits are undone, adds or updates some magic
375strings, and does not forget when the cursor was last
376at line 1, column 1.
377
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3802017 November 18
381
382GNU nano 2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record and
383replay keystrokes (M-: to start and stop recording, M-;
384to play the macro back), makes ^Q and ^S do something
385useful by default (^Q starts a backward search, and ^S
386saves the current file), changes ^W to start always a
387forward search, shows the number of open buffers (when
388more than one) in the title bar, no longer asks to press
389Enter when there are errors in an rc file, retires the
390options '--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards',
391makes indenting and unindenting undoable, will look in
392$XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file and in $XDG_DATA_HOME
393for the history files, adds a history stack for executed
394commands (^R^X), does not overwrite the position-history
395file of another nano, and fixes a score of tiny bugs.
396
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3992017 August 27
400
401GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are
402wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting
403more predictable by retaining relative indentations,
404allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes
405in Python to not be followed by a character, does not
406scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds
407Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and
408fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping
409and boundary-crossing tabs. Enjoy.
410
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414
2031a280 415GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekul&eacute;" offers a new feature: the ability
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416to do softwrapping between words -- at whitespace --
417instead of always at the edge of the screen. This can
418be activated with -a or --atblanks or 'set atblanks'
419together with the softwrap option. This release further
420fixes a handful of rare display glitches, fixes a build
421failure on AIX, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc
422files, and renames the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor'
423(please update your nanorc files before 2020).
424
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4272017 June 25
428
429GNU nano 2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from
430a suspension that was induced from the outside, allows
431negative line and column numbers on the command line,
432avoids some flickering when resizing the screen while
433in the file browser, opens files in the order they were
434mentioned on the command line, and does not pretend to
435have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT.
436
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4392017 May 21
440
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441GNU nano 2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc
442man page again.
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4462017 May 18
447
448GNU nano 2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight
449during interactive replacing, avoids build failures on AIX
450and Solaris, fixes a crash on Solaris, speeds up backwards
451searching, improves PHP syntax highlighting, and no longer
8f3b8915 452asks "save anyway?" when the user ^Q discards the buffer.
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4562017 May 4
457
458GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" adds another new feature: it makes
459the ^G help texts searchable with ^W. Apart from that,
460it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle
461of verbatim input, avoids an unlikely crash when used
462without UTF-8 support in some locales, avoids redrawing
463the screen twice when switching between buffers while
464line numbers are active, and works around a coloring
465bug on musl. Plus tweaks to the documentation; plus
466translation updates for fifteen languages.
467
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4702017 April 12
471
472GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS and
473on musl, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when
474double-width characters on row boundaries are involved,
0a09732f 475shows double-width characters as "&gt;" and "&lt;" when split
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476across two rows, moves the cursor more predictably (at
477the cost of sometimes putting it on the second "half"
478of a character), avoids creating lines that consist of
479only blanks when using autoindent, makes ^Home and ^End
480go to the start and end of the file (on terminals that
481support those keystrokes), places the cursor better when
482linting, lets the linter ask only once whether to open
483an included file, and adds bindings for ^Up and ^Down
484in the file browser. Don't sit on your hands.
485
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4882017 March 31
489
490GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in
491softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from
492visual row to visual row instead of jumping between
493logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to
494the start and end of a row, and only when already
495there, then to the start and end of the logical line.
496Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead
497of always per logical line. On an entirely different
498front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build
499on more platforms. In short: there were many internal
500changes, not many user-visible ones (apart form the
501new softwrap navigation). The conversion to gnulib
502was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by
503David Ramsey.
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509GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace
510the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things
511when multiline regexes with identical start and end are
512involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches,
513does replacements at the edges of a marked region right,
514no longer hides double-width characters at the head of
515softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at
516startup, and documents the ability to read a file from
517standard input. Come tickle my ears.
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523GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly
524manner again (bug was introduced in previous version),
525sets the preferred x position for vertical movements
526more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in
527softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your
528system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of
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535GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs:
536your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain
537newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching
538between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes,
539makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a
540Linux console, is more resistant against malformations
541in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is
542typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL.
543Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an
544unlocked file just after saving a new one. That's it.
545Tastes great with thick butter.
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551GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature:
552the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default)
553a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in
554the current buffer. Besides, this release fixes two bugs
555related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to
556use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on
557VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering
558during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override
559an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected
560region after an external spell check, and improves a few
561other tidbits. If you should find any more bugs, please
562run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there.
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568GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the
569ability to display line numbers beside the text. This can
570be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line,
571or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with
572M-#. The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the
573option 'set numbercolor'. This release furthermore fixes
574some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict
575in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer
576as modified when the output of a command (^R ^X) has been
577read into it. Come and check it out!
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583GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to be
584selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys.
585Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny
586terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves
587the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces. Not much,
588but it's time to get it out there.
589
590With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while
591we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd,
592back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass.
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598nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on
599a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very
600first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it
601holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits
602(when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug
603in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in
604a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid
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611nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the
612keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks
613of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which
614characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered
615word-forming. Further, it provides feedback during Unicode
616input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which
617must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the
618window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after
619having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line
620anchor (^) just once per line. There are also several tiny
621improvements in screen rendering and key handling.
622Come get your hair tousled!
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628nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but also
629adds one little feature (the ability to use negative numbers
630with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom),
631includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes three tiny
632bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren't
633even worth mentioning).
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639nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and
640some of them not so little. It improves moving about in
641the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell
642checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with
643default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer,
644shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor
645is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if
646there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes
647when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename
648on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches,
649and allows to abort re-searches. Among bunches of other
650things. It is worth the trouble to upgrade.
651
652And, with this release, we take leave of the herd...
653Bye! And thanks for all the grass!
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