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12 | <center><b><big>News</big></b></center> | |
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16 | <tr align="center"> | |
17 | <td> | |
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20 | 2021 March 3 - <b>GNU nano 5.6.1</b> "Geelgors" |
21 | <br> | |
22 | <table><tr><td><ul> | |
23 | <li>Search matches are properly colorized in softwrap mode too.</li> | |
24 | <li>Option 'highlightcolor' has been renamed to 'spotlightcolor'.</li> | |
25 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
26 | <br><br> | |
27 | ||
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28 | 2021 February 24 - <b>GNU nano 5.6</b> "Wielewaal" |
29 | <br> | |
30 | <table><tr><td><ul> | |
31 | <li>A search match gets highlighted (in black on yellow by default),<br> | |
32 | in addition to placing the cursor at the start of the match.<br> | |
33 | The color combination can be changed with 'set highlightcolor'.<br> | |
34 | By default the cursor is hidden until the next keystroke, but<br> | |
85194e5b | 35 | it can be forced on with <tt>--showcursor</tt> / 'set showcursor'.</li> |
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36 | <li>Option <tt>--markmatch</tt> / 'set markmatch' has been removed.</li> |
37 | <li>Cursor position and character code are displayed in the minibar<br> | |
38 | only when option <tt>--constantshow</tt> / 'set constantshow' is used,<br> | |
39 | and their display can be toggled with <tt>M-C</tt>.</li> | |
40 | <li>The state flags are displayed in the minibar only when option<br> | |
41 | <tt>--stateflags</tt> / 'set stateflags' is used.</li> | |
42 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
43 | <br><br> | |
44 | ||
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45 | 2021 January 14 - <b>GNU nano 5.5</b> "Rebecca" |
46 | <br> | |
47 | <table><tr><td><ul> | |
48 | <li>Option 'set minibar' makes nano suppress the title bar and instead<br> | |
49 | show a bar with basic editing information at the bottom: file name<br> | |
50 | (plus an asterisk when the buffer is modified), the cursor position<br> | |
51 | (line,column), the character under the cursor (U+xxxx), the flags<br> | |
52 | that <tt>--stateflags</tt> normally shows, plus the percentage of the buffer<br> | |
53 | that is above the cursor.</li> | |
54 | <li>With 'set promptcolor' the color combination of the prompt bar can<br> | |
55 | be changed, to allow contrasting it with the mini bar (which always<br> | |
56 | has the same color as the title bar).</li> | |
57 | <li>Option 'set markmatch' highlights the result of a successful search<br> | |
58 | by putting the mark at the end of the match, making the match more<br> | |
59 | visible. It also suppresses the cursor until the next keystroke.<br> | |
60 | (If you dislike the hiding of the cursor, use 'set showcursor'.)</li> | |
61 | <li>The bindable toggle 'nowrap' has been renamed to 'breaklonglines',<br> | |
62 | to match the corresponding option, like for all other toggles.</li> | |
63 | <li>Support for Slang has been removed.</li> | |
64 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
65 | <br><br> | |
66 | ||
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67 | 2020 December 2 - <b>GNU nano 5.4</b> "Terre des hommes" |
68 | <br> | |
69 | <table><tr><td><ul> | |
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70 | <li>Moving the cursor now skips over combining characters (and<br> |
71 | other zero-width characters). Deleting a character deletes<br> | |
72 | also any succeeding zero-width characters, but backspacing<br> | |
73 | deletes just one character at a time.</li> | |
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74 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
75 | <br><br> | |
76 | ||
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77 | 2020 October 7 - <b>GNU nano 5.3</b> "Revolution!" |
78 | <br> | |
79 | <table><tr><td><ul> | |
80 | <li>Option 'set stateflags' makes nano show the state of auto-indenting,<br> | |
81 | the mark, hard-wrapping, macro recording, and soft-wrapping in the<br> | |
82 | title bar. The flags take the place of "Modified", and a modified<br> | |
83 | buffer is instead indicated by an asterisk (*) after its name.</li> | |
84 | <li>Nano no longer by default tries using libmagic to determine the type<br> | |
85 | of a file (when neither filename nor first line gave a clue), because<br> | |
86 | in most cases it is a waste of time. It requires using the option<br> | |
87 | <tt>--magic</tt> or <tt>-!</tt> or 'set magic' to make nano try libmagic.</li> | |
88 | <li>The color of the indicator can be changed with 'set scrollercolor'.</li> | |
89 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
90 | <br><br> | |
91 | ||
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92 | 2020 August 24 - <b>GNU nano 5.2</b> "Ranrapalca" |
93 | <br> | |
94 | <table><tr><td><ul> | |
95 | <li>Making certain replacements after a large paste does not crash.</li> | |
96 | <li>Hitting a toggle at the Search prompt does not clear the answer.</li> | |
97 | <li>Using <tt>--positionlog</tt> does not complain at the first start.</li> | |
98 | <li>A macro containing a Search command will not sometimes fail.</li> | |
99 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
100 | <br><br> | |
101 | ||
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102 | 2020 August 12 - <b>GNU nano 5.1</b> "Cantabria" |
103 | <br> | |
104 | <table><tr><td><ul> | |
105 | <li><tt>M-Bsp</tt> (Alt+Backspace) deletes a word backwards, like in Bash.</li> | |
106 | <li><tt>M-[</tt> has become bindable. (Be careful, though: as it is the<br> | |
107 | starting combination of many escape sequences, avoid gluing<br> | |
108 | it together with other keystrokes, like in a macro.)</li> | |
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109 | <li>With <tt>--indicator</tt> and <tt>--softwrap</tt>, the first keystroke in an<br> |
110 | empty buffer does not crash.</li> | |
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111 | <li>Invoking the formatter while text is marked does not crash.</li> |
112 | <li>In UTF-8 locales, an anchor is shown as a diamond.</li> | |
113 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
114 | <br><br> | |
115 | ||
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116 | 2020 July 29 - <b>GNU nano 5.0</b> "Among the fields of barley" |
117 | <br> | |
118 | <table><tr><td><ul> | |
119 | <li>With <tt>--indicator</tt> (or <tt>-q</tt> or 'set indicator') nano will show a kind<br> | |
120 | of scrollbar on the righthand side of the screen to indicate where<br> | |
121 | in the buffer the viewport is located and how much it covers.</li> | |
122 | <li>With <Alt+Insert> any line can be "tagged" with an anchor, and<br> | |
123 | <Alt+PageUp> and <Alt+PageDown> will jump to the nearest anchor.<br> | |
124 | When using line numbers, an anchor is shown as "+" in the margin.</li> | |
125 | <li>The Execute Command prompt is now directly accessible from the<br> | |
126 | main menu (with <tt>^T</tt>, replacing the Spell Checker). The Linter,<br> | |
127 | Formatter, Spell Checker, Full Justification, Suspension, and<br> | |
128 | Cut-Till-End functions are available in this menu too.</li> | |
129 | <li>On terminals that support at least 256 colors, nine new color<br> | |
130 | names are available: pink, purple, mauve, lagoon, mint, lime,<br> | |
131 | peach, orange, and latte. These do not have lighter versions.</li> | |
132 | <li>For the color names red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta,<br> | |
133 | white, and black, the prefix 'light' gives a brighter color.<br> | |
134 | Prefix 'bright' is deprecated, as it means both bold AND light.</li> | |
135 | <li>All color names can be preceded with "bold," and/or "italic,"<br> | |
136 | (in that order) to get a bold and/or italic typeface.</li> | |
137 | <li>With <tt>--bookstyle</tt> (or <tt>-O</tt> or 'set bookstyle') nano considers any<br> | |
138 | line that begins with whitespace as the start of a paragraph.</li> | |
139 | <li>Refreshing the screen with <tt>^L</tt> now works in every menu.</li> | |
140 | <li>In the main menu, <tt>^L</tt> also centers the line with the cursor.</li> | |
1bfd5748 | 141 | <li>Toggling the help lines with <tt>M-X</tt> now works in all menus except<br> |
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142 | in the help viewer and the linter.</li> |
143 | <li>At a filename prompt, the first <Tab> lists the possibilities,<br> | |
144 | and these are listed near the bottom instead of near the top.</li> | |
145 | <li>Bindable function 'curpos' has been renamed to 'location'.</li> | |
146 | <li>Long option <tt>--tempfile</tt> has been renamed to <tt>--saveonexit</tt>.</li> | |
147 | <li>Short option <tt>-S</tt> is now a synonym of <tt>--softwrap</tt>.</li> | |
148 | <li>The New Buffer toggle (<tt>M-F</tt>) has become non-persistent. Options<br> | |
1bfd5748 | 149 | <tt>--multibuffer</tt> and 'set multibuffer' still make it default to on.</li> |
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150 | <li>Backup files will retain their group ownership (when possible).</li> |
151 | <li>Data is synced to disk before "... lines written" is shown.</li> | |
152 | <li>The raw escape sequences for <tt>F13</tt> to <tt>F16</tt> are no longer recognized.</li> | |
153 | <li>Distro-specific syntaxes, and syntaxes of less common languages,<br> | |
154 | have been moved down to subdirectory syntax/extra/. The affected<br> | |
155 | distros and others may wish to move wanted syntaxes one level up.</li> | |
156 | <li>Syntaxes for Markdown, Haskell, and Ada were added.</li> | |
157 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
158 | <br><br> | |
159 | ||
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160 | 2020 May 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.3</b> "Almendras" |
161 | <br><br> | |
162 | <table><tr><td> | |
bfb390e0 | 163 | One more bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a crash when<br> |
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164 | the terminal screen is resized while at a lock-file prompt. |
165 | </td></tr></table> | |
166 | <br><br> | |
167 | ||
c78fafd2 | 168 | 2020 April 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.2</b> "Mali Lošinj" |
f0146453 | 169 | <br><br> |
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170 | <table><tr><td> |
171 | Another bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a likely crash<br> | |
cba23c33 | 172 | after undoing an <Enter> at the end of leading whitespace. |
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173 | </td></tr></table> |
174 | <br><br> | |
175 | ||
cded4212 | 176 | 2020 March 31 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.1</b> "Sapperdeflap" |
f0146453 | 177 | <br><br> |
cded4212 | 178 | <table><tr><td> |
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179 | Two bugs introduced in version 4.9 are fixed: the cursor<br> |
180 | getting misplaced when undoing line cuts, and filtering<br> | |
181 | of the whole buffer to a new buffer not working. | |
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182 | </td></tr></table> |
183 | <br><br> | |
184 | ||
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185 | 2020 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.9</b> "die fetten Jahre sind vorbei" |
186 | <br> | |
187 | <table><tr><td><ul> | |
188 | <li>When justifying a selection, the new paragraph and the<br> | |
189 | succeeding one get the appropriate first-line indent.</li> | |
190 | <li>Trying to justify an empty selection does not crash.</li> | |
191 | <li>Redoing the insertion of an empty file does not crash.</li> | |
192 | <li>On the BSDs and macOS, <tt>^H</tt> has become rebindable again<br> | |
193 | (in most terminal emulators, not on the console).</li> | |
194 | <li>DOS line endings in nanorc files are accepted.</li> | |
195 | <li>Option <tt>--suspend</tt> / 'set suspend' has been renamed to<br> | |
196 | the more logical <tt>--suspendable</tt> / 'set suspendable'.</li> | |
197 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
198 | <br><br> | |
199 | ||
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200 | 2020 February 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.8</b> "Jaška" |
201 | <br> | |
202 | <table><tr><td><ul> | |
203 | <li>When something is pasted into nano, auto-indentation is suppressed,<br> | |
204 | and the paste can be undone as a whole with a single <tt>M-U</tt>.</li> | |
205 | <li>When a lock file is encountered during startup, pressing <tt>^C</tt>/Cancel<br> | |
206 | quits nano. (Pressing 'No' just skips the file and continues.)</li> | |
207 | <li>Shift+Meta+letter key combos can be bound with 'bind Sh-M-letter'.<br> | |
208 | Making any such binding dismisses the default behavior of ignoring<br> | |
209 | Shift for all Meta+letter keystrokes.</li> | |
210 | <li>The configuration option <tt>--with-slang</tt> (to be avoided when possible)<br> | |
211 | can now be used only together with <tt>--enable-tiny</tt>.</li> | |
212 | <li>A custom nanorc file can be specified on the command line, with<br> | |
213 | <tt>-f filename</tt> or <tt>--rcfile=filename</tt>.</li> | |
214 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
215 | <br><br> | |
216 | ||
21d362bb | 217 | 2019 December 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.7</b> "Havikskruid" |
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218 | <br> |
219 | <table><tr><td><ul> | |
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220 | <li>A <Tab> will indent a marked region only when mark and cursor are<br> |
221 | on different lines.</li> | |
222 | <li>Two indentations (any mix of tabs and spaces) are considered the<br> | |
223 | same when they look the same (that is: indent to the same level).</li> | |
224 | <li>When using <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> or <tt>^J</tt>, a line will never be broken in<br> | |
225 | its leading whitespace or quoting.</li> | |
226 | <li>The keywords in nanorc files must be in lowercase.</li> | |
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227 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
228 | <br><br> | |
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230 | 2019 November 29 - <b>GNU nano 4.6</b> "And don't you eat that yellow snow" |
231 | <br> | |
232 | <table><tr><td><ul> | |
233 | <li>The 'formatter' command has returned, bound by default to <tt>M-F</tt>.<br> | |
234 | It allows running a syntax-specific command on the contents of<br> | |
235 | the buffer.</li> | |
36934144 | 236 | <li><tt>^T</tt> will try to run 'hunspell' before 'spell', because it checks<br> |
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237 | spellling for the locale's language and understands UTF-8.</li> |
238 | <li>Multiple errors or warnings on startup will no longer slow nano<br> | |
239 | down but will be indicated on the status bar with trailing dots.</li> | |
240 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
241 | <br><br> | |
242 | ||
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243 | 2019 October 4 - <b>GNU nano 4.5</b> "Košice" |
244 | <br> | |
245 | <table><tr><td><ul> | |
246 | <li>The new 'tabgives' command allows you to specify per syntax what<br> | |
247 | the <Tab> key should produce: some spaces, a hard TAB, ...</li> | |
248 | <li>The output of <tt>--help</tt> is properly aligned again for all languages.</li> | |
249 | <li><Tab> will indent a marked region also when <tt>M-}</tt> has been rebound.</li> | |
250 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
251 | <br><br> | |
252 | ||
ae82a2d1 | 253 | 2019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> "Hagelslag" |
fcb625d4 | 254 | <br> |
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255 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
256 | <li>At startup, the cursor can be put on the first or last occurrence<br> | |
257 | of a string by preceding the filename with <tt>+/string</tt> or <tt>+?string</tt>.</li> | |
258 | <li>When automatic hard-wrapping occurs (<tt>--breaklonglines</tt>), any leading<br> | |
259 | quoting characters will be automatically copied to the new line.</li> | |
a739c60d | 260 | <li><tt>M-6</tt> works again also when the cursor is at end of buffer.</li> |
ae82a2d1 | 261 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
fcb625d4 | 262 | <br><br> |
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84553b52 | 264 | 2019 June 18 - <b>GNU nano 4.3</b> "Musa Kart" |
fcb625d4 | 265 | <br> |
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266 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
267 | <li>The ability to read from and write to a FIFO has been regained.</li> | |
268 | <li>Startup time is reduced by fully parsing a syntax only when needed.</li> | |
269 | <li>Asking for help (<tt>^G</tt>) when using <tt>--operatingdir</tt> does not crash.</li> | |
270 | <li>The reading of a huge or slow file can be stopped with <tt>^C</tt>.</li> | |
271 | <li>Cut, zap, and copy operations are undone separately when intermixed.</li> | |
272 | <li><tt>M-D</tt> reports the correct number of lines (zero for an empty buffer).</li> | |
273 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
fcb625d4 | 274 | <br><br> |
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933f5300 | 276 | 2019 April 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.2</b> "Tax the rich, pay the teachers" |
fcb625d4 | 277 | <br> |
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278 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
279 | <li>The integrated spell checker does not crash when 'spell' is missing.</li> | |
094a026a | 280 | <li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> works also when <tt>--ignorercfiles</tt> is used.</li> |
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281 | <li>Automatic hard-wrapping is more persistent in pushing words to the<br> |
282 | same overflow line.</li> | |
283 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
fcb625d4 | 284 | <br><br> |
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933f5300 | 286 | 2019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> "Qué corchos será eso?" |
fcb625d4 | 287 | <br> |
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3a9f2f9b | 289 | <li>By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the<br> |
f5d848f8 | 290 | end of a buffer, to produce valid POSIX text files by default, but<br> |
3a9f2f9b | 291 | also to get back the easy adding of text at the bottom.</li> |
094a026a | 292 | <li>The now unneeded option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) has been removed.</li> |
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293 | <li>Syntax files are read in alphabetical order when globbing, so that<br> |
294 | the precedence of syntaxes becomes predictable.</li> | |
295 | <li>In the C syntax, preprocessor directives are highlighted differently.</li> | |
094a026a | 296 | <li><tt>M-S</tt> now toggles soft wrapping, and <tt>M-N</tt> toggles line numbers.</li> |
f5d848f8 | 297 | <li>The jumpy-scrolling toggle has been removed.</li> |
094a026a | 298 | <li>The legacy keystrokes <tt>^W^Y</tt> and <tt>^W^V</tt> are recognized again.</li> |
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299 | <li>Executing an external command is disallowed when in view mode.</li> |
300 | <li>Problems with resizing during external or speller commands were fixed.</li> | |
301 | </ul></td></tr></table> | |
fcb625d4 | 302 | <br><br> |
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933f5300 | 304 | 2019 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.0</b> "Thy Rope of Sands" |
fcb625d4 | 305 | <br> |
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306 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
307 | <li>An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped.</li> | |
308 | <li>Smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default.</li> | |
309 | <li>A newline character is no longer automatically added at end of buffer.</li> | |
310 | <li>The line below the title bar is by default part of the editing space.</li> | |
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311 | <li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> (<tt>-b</tt>) turns automatic hard-wrapping back on.</li> |
312 | <li>Option <tt>--jumpyscrolling</tt> (<tt>-j</tt>) gives the chunky, half-screen scrolling.</li> | |
313 | <li>Option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) brings back the automatic newline at EOF.</li> | |
314 | <li>Option <tt>--emptyline</tt> (<tt>-e</tt>) leaves the line below the title bar unused.</li> | |
d94a27bb | 315 | <li><Alt+Up> and <Alt+Down> now do a linewise scroll instead of a findnext.</li> |
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316 | <li>Any number of justifications can be undone (like all other operations).</li> |
317 | <li>When marked text is justified, it becomes a single, separate paragraph.</li> | |
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318 | <li>Option <tt>--guidestripe=<number></tt> draws a vertical bar at the given column.</li> |
319 | <li>Option <tt>--fill=<number></tt> no longer turns on automatic hard-wrapping.</li> | |
47ae3021 | 320 | <li>When a line continues offscreen, it now ends with a highlighted ">".</li> |
616ce731 | 321 | <li>The halves of a split two-column character are shown as "[" and "]".</li> |
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322 | <li>A line now scrolls horizontally one column earlier.</li> |
323 | <li>The bindable functions 'cutwordleft' and 'cutwordright' were renamed<br> | |
324 | to 'chopwordleft' and 'chopwordright' as they don't use the cutbuffer.</li> | |
325 | <li>The paragraph-jumping functions were moved from Search to Go-to-Line.</li> | |
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326 | <li>Option <tt>--rebinddelete</tt> is able to compensate for more misbindings.</li> |
327 | <li>Options <tt>--morespace</tt> and <tt>--smooth</tt> are obsolete and thus ignored.</li> | |
328 | <li>The <tt>--disable-wrapping-as-root</tt> configure option was removed.</li> | |
e2ca83a4 | 329 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
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330 | <br> |
331 | ||
50070c05 | 332 | <pre> |
2ea62bdc | 333 | |
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334 | 2018 November 11 |
335 | ||
336 | GNU nano 3.2 "Het kromme hout" changes the default binding | |
337 | for the linter to M-B so that the spell checker (^T) can | |
338 | always be used, and changes (when linting) the text in the | |
339 | title bar and the color of the status bar to make linting | |
340 | mode more obvious. It also adds a bindable 'zap' function | |
341 | for deleting a line or marked region without changing the | |
67c6d961 | 342 | cutbuffer, adds --zap to bind the <Del> and <Backspace> |
eb64fc57 | 343 | keys to the zap function when something is marked, and |
67c6d961 | 344 | hard-binds <Alt+Del> to 'zap'. Furthermore, it shows the |
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345 | cursor also in the help viewer (when --showcursor is used), |
346 | renames the bindable functions 'prevhistory' to 'older' and | |
347 | 'nexthistory' to 'newer' (update your nanorcs when needed), | |
348 | reads the nanorc files also in restricted mode to allow | |
349 | customization by the user (if this should not be allowed, | |
350 | use --ignorercfiles in addition to --restricted), allows | |
351 | in view mode to open also other files (if this should not | |
352 | be allowed, use --restricted in addition to --view), makes | |
353 | resizes respect a relative --fill again, no longer binds | |
354 | F13...F15 by default, properly re-highlights a misspelled | |
355 | word after invoking help in the internal spell checker, | |
356 | and does not skip Unicode characters in string binds. | |
357 | ||
358 | ||
359 | ||
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360 | 2018 September 18 |
361 | ||
362 | GNU nano 3.1 "Je faisais des bonds comme ça!" fixes a | |
363 | misbinding of ^H on some terminals and some systems, | |
364 | does not leave stray stuff after the prompt upon exit | |
365 | when having suspended nano while using --constantshow, | |
366 | and does not allow to toggle to Replace in view mode. | |
367 | ||
368 | ||
369 | ||
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370 | 2018 September 9 |
371 | ||
372 | GNU nano 3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the | |
373 | reading of a file by seventy percent, roughly doubles the | |
374 | speed of handling ASCII text, changes the way words at line | |
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375 | boundaries are deleted, makes <Ctrl+Delete> wipe the next |
376 | word and <Ctrl+Shift+Delete> the preceding word, binds M-Q | |
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377 | to 'findprevious' by default (the Tabs-to-Spaces toggle is |
378 | placed on M-O, and the More-Space toggle is fully removed), | |
379 | makes an external spell check undoable, shows the correct | |
380 | number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple | |
381 | files, removes the 'formatter' command, removes the | |
382 | 'searchagain' bindable function (M-W is now bound to | |
383 | 'findnext' by default), moves the No-Convert toggle to the | |
384 | Insert menu, removes the Backup and New-Buffer toggles from | |
385 | the main menu (they remain in the Write-Out and Insert | |
386 | menus, respectively), is more precise in what it accepts as | |
0c351168 | 387 | a rebindable key name, ignores any presses of <Esc> before |
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388 | a valid command keystroke, recognizes some more escape |
389 | sequences for modified editing-pad keys, does not hide | |
390 | rcfile error messages on a Linux console, renames the | |
391 | bindable functions 'copytext' to 'copy' and 'uncut' to | |
392 | 'paste', and avoids a possible hang during a Full-Justify. | |
393 | ||
394 | ||
395 | ||
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396 | 2018 June 2 |
397 | ||
398 | GNU nano 2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the | |
399 | buffer (or the marked region) through an external command | |
400 | (^R^X and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is | |
401 | better at detecting and maintaining paragraphs, is able to | |
402 | justify //-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding | |
403 | of a key to a string lacks a closing quote, gives feedback | |
404 | about the number of lines written also when prepending or | |
405 | appending, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter. | |
406 | ||
407 | ||
408 | ||
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409 | 2018 May 15 |
410 | ||
411 | GNU nano 2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option '--afterends' | |
412 | for making Ctrl+Right (the nextword function) stop at word | |
413 | ends instead of beginnings, accepts multibyte letters for | |
414 | the Yes/No/All answers, does emergency saves of changed | |
415 | buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes, adds the | |
416 | until-now missing bindable function 'linenumbers', and | |
417 | renames the toggles 'constupdate' to 'constantshow' and | |
418 | 'cuttoend' to 'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the | |
419 | corresponding options -- adjust your nanorc files soon. | |
420 | ||
421 | ||
422 | ||
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423 | 2018 April 27 |
424 | ||
425 | GNU nano 2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion, | |
426 | makes --enable-altrcname work again, improves the fluidity | |
427 | of scrolling when using the touchpad, tweaks the syntaxes | |
428 | for shell scripts and PO files, makes a replacing session | |
429 | go always forward by default, no longer inserts a newline | |
430 | after an external spell check of a selected region, always | |
431 | accepts the English Y and N (and A) at a yes-no prompt in | |
432 | any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs. | |
433 | ||
434 | ||
435 | ||
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436 | 2018 March 29 |
437 | ||
438 | GNU nano 2.9.5 "Kiša pada" changes the way the Scroll-Up | |
439 | and Scroll-Down commands work (M-- and M-+): instead of | |
440 | keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now | |
441 | keep the cursor in the same text position (if possible). | |
442 | This version further adds a new color name, "normal", | |
443 | which gives the default foreground or background color, | |
444 | which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous | |
445 | painting by earlier syntax regexes. Bug fixes include: | |
446 | a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted | |
447 | mode, the reading in of a new file being "undoable", a | |
448 | slight miswrapping of help texts when --linenumbers was | |
449 | used, and the shell syntax coloring the word "tar" in | |
450 | file names. | |
451 | ||
452 | ||
453 | ||
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454 | 2018 March 8 |
455 | ||
456 | GNU nano 2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a string | |
457 | (any piece of text and/or commands), permits customizing | |
458 | the color of error messages with 'set errorcolor', colors | |
459 | those error messages by default in bright white on red, | |
0c351168 | 460 | makes <Enter> at the bottom of the screen scroll just one |
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461 | row when --smooth is used, does not fail when redoing a |
462 | file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any | |
463 | cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor | |
464 | cannot move. Further, it treats tabs fully the same as | |
465 | spaces when doing automatic hard-wrapping, allows syntax | |
466 | names to be unquoted, and removes two deprecated options | |
467 | and six deprecated bindable function names. | |
468 | ||
469 | ||
470 | ||
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471 | 2018 January 29 |
472 | ||
473 | GNU nano 2.9.3 "Córdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks | |
474 | that could occur when a typed space caused the word after | |
475 | it to be pushed to the next line. It further makes macros | |
476 | work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences, | |
477 | adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line, | |
478 | recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals, | |
479 | no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible | |
aa32601b | 480 | whitespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing |
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481 | replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named |
482 | pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects | |
483 | a needed color change when a line contains a start match | |
484 | but not a corresponding end match any more. Plus some | |
485 | other small fry. | |
486 | ||
487 | ||
488 | ||
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489 | 2018 January 2 |
490 | ||
491 | GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified | |
492 | state when undoing/redoing (also when the file was saved | |
493 | somewhere midway), improves the undoing of an automatic | |
494 | linefeed at EOF, fixes a build issue on the BSDs, shows | |
495 | the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames | |
496 | the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will | |
497 | now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing | |
498 | (and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words | |
499 | to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes | |
690585d0 | 500 | <Tab> and <Shift+Tab> indent and unindent a marked region, |
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501 | allows unindenting when not all lines are indented, lets a |
502 | region marked with Shift persist when indenting/unindenting | |
503 | or commenting/uncommenting it, and in those cases excludes | |
504 | the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked | |
505 | (which makes for a more intuitive behavior). | |
506 | ||
507 | ||
508 | ||
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509 | 2017 November 27 |
510 | ||
511 | GNU nano 2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where, when the mark | |
512 | is on, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked | |
513 | region. This release further clears the "Modified" flag | |
514 | when all edits are undone, adds or updates some magic | |
515 | strings, and does not forget when the cursor was last | |
516 | at line 1, column 1. | |
517 | ||
518 | ||
519 | ||
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520 | 2017 November 18 |
521 | ||
522 | GNU nano 2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record and | |
523 | replay keystrokes (M-: to start and stop recording, M-; | |
524 | to play the macro back), makes ^Q and ^S do something | |
525 | useful by default (^Q starts a backward search, and ^S | |
526 | saves the current file), changes ^W to start always a | |
527 | forward search, shows the number of open buffers (when | |
528 | more than one) in the title bar, no longer asks to press | |
529 | Enter when there are errors in an rc file, retires the | |
530 | options '--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards', | |
531 | makes indenting and unindenting undoable, will look in | |
532 | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file and in $XDG_DATA_HOME | |
533 | for the history files, adds a history stack for executed | |
534 | commands (^R^X), does not overwrite the position-history | |
535 | file of another nano, and fixes a score of tiny bugs. | |
536 | ||
537 | ||
538 | ||
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539 | 2017 August 27 |
540 | ||
541 | GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are | |
542 | wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting | |
543 | more predictable by retaining relative indentations, | |
544 | allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes | |
545 | in Python to not be followed by a character, does not | |
546 | scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds | |
547 | Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and | |
548 | fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping | |
549 | and boundary-crossing tabs. Enjoy. | |
550 | ||
551 | ||
552 | ||
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553 | 2017 July 21 |
554 | ||
2031a280 | 555 | GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a new feature: the ability |
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556 | to do softwrapping between words -- at whitespace -- |
557 | instead of always at the edge of the screen. This can | |
558 | be activated with -a or --atblanks or 'set atblanks' | |
559 | together with the softwrap option. This release further | |
560 | fixes a handful of rare display glitches, fixes a build | |
561 | failure on AIX, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc | |
562 | files, and renames the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor' | |
563 | (please update your nanorc files before 2020). | |
564 | ||
565 | ||
566 | ||
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567 | 2017 June 25 |
568 | ||
569 | GNU nano 2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from | |
570 | a suspension that was induced from the outside, allows | |
571 | negative line and column numbers on the command line, | |
572 | avoids some flickering when resizing the screen while | |
573 | in the file browser, opens files in the order they were | |
574 | mentioned on the command line, and does not pretend to | |
575 | have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT. | |
576 | ||
577 | ||
578 | ||
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579 | 2017 May 21 |
580 | ||
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581 | GNU nano 2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc |
582 | man page again. | |
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583 | |
584 | ||
585 | ||
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586 | 2017 May 18 |
587 | ||
588 | GNU nano 2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight | |
589 | during interactive replacing, avoids build failures on AIX | |
590 | and Solaris, fixes a crash on Solaris, speeds up backwards | |
591 | searching, improves PHP syntax highlighting, and no longer | |
8f3b8915 | 592 | asks "save anyway?" when the user ^Q discards the buffer. |
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593 | |
594 | ||
595 | ||
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596 | 2017 May 4 |
597 | ||
598 | GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" adds another new feature: it makes | |
599 | the ^G help texts searchable with ^W. Apart from that, | |
600 | it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle | |
601 | of verbatim input, avoids an unlikely crash when used | |
602 | without UTF-8 support in some locales, avoids redrawing | |
603 | the screen twice when switching between buffers while | |
604 | line numbers are active, and works around a coloring | |
605 | bug on musl. Plus tweaks to the documentation; plus | |
606 | translation updates for fifteen languages. | |
607 | ||
608 | ||
609 | ||
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610 | 2017 April 12 |
611 | ||
612 | GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS and | |
613 | on musl, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when | |
614 | double-width characters on row boundaries are involved, | |
0a09732f | 615 | shows double-width characters as ">" and "<" when split |
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616 | across two rows, moves the cursor more predictably (at |
617 | the cost of sometimes putting it on the second "half" | |
618 | of a character), avoids creating lines that consist of | |
619 | only blanks when using autoindent, makes ^Home and ^End | |
620 | go to the start and end of the file (on terminals that | |
621 | support those keystrokes), places the cursor better when | |
622 | linting, lets the linter ask only once whether to open | |
623 | an included file, and adds bindings for ^Up and ^Down | |
624 | in the file browser. Don't sit on your hands. | |
625 | ||
626 | ||
627 | ||
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628 | 2017 March 31 |
629 | ||
630 | GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in | |
631 | softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from | |
632 | visual row to visual row instead of jumping between | |
633 | logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to | |
634 | the start and end of a row, and only when already | |
635 | there, then to the start and end of the logical line. | |
636 | Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead | |
637 | of always per logical line. On an entirely different | |
638 | front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build | |
639 | on more platforms. In short: there were many internal | |
640 | changes, not many user-visible ones (apart form the | |
641 | new softwrap navigation). The conversion to gnulib | |
642 | was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by | |
643 | David Ramsey. | |
644 | ||
645 | ||
646 | ||
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647 | 2017 February 23 |
648 | ||
649 | GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace | |
650 | the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things | |
651 | when multiline regexes with identical start and end are | |
652 | involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches, | |
653 | does replacements at the edges of a marked region right, | |
654 | no longer hides double-width characters at the head of | |
655 | softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at | |
656 | startup, and documents the ability to read a file from | |
657 | standard input. Come tickle my ears. | |
658 | ||
659 | ||
660 | ||
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661 | 2017 January 10 |
662 | ||
663 | GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly | |
664 | manner again (bug was introduced in previous version), | |
665 | sets the preferred x position for vertical movements | |
666 | more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in | |
667 | softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your | |
668 | system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of | |
690585d0 | 669 | the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches. |
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670 | |
671 | ||
672 | ||
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673 | 2016 December 28 |
674 | ||
675 | GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs: | |
676 | your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain | |
677 | newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching | |
678 | between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes, | |
679 | makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a | |
680 | Linux console, is more resistant against malformations | |
681 | in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is | |
682 | typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL. | |
683 | Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an | |
684 | unlocked file just after saving a new one. That's it. | |
685 | Tastes great with thick butter. | |
686 | ||
687 | ||
688 | ||
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689 | 2016 December 12 |
690 | ||
691 | GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature: | |
692 | the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default) | |
693 | a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in | |
694 | the current buffer. Besides, this release fixes two bugs | |
695 | related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to | |
696 | use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on | |
697 | VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering | |
698 | during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override | |
699 | an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected | |
700 | region after an external spell check, and improves a few | |
701 | other tidbits. If you should find any more bugs, please | |
702 | run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there. | |
703 | ||
704 | ||
705 | ||
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706 | 2016 October 29 |
707 | ||
708 | GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the | |
709 | ability to display line numbers beside the text. This can | |
710 | be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line, | |
711 | or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with | |
712 | M-#. The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the | |
713 | option 'set numbercolor'. This release furthermore fixes | |
714 | some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict | |
715 | in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer | |
716 | as modified when the output of a command (^R ^X) has been | |
717 | read into it. Come and check it out! | |
718 | ||
719 | ||
720 | ||
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721 | 2016 September 1 |
722 | ||
723 | GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to be | |
724 | selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys. | |
725 | Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny | |
726 | terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves | |
727 | the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces. Not much, | |
728 | but it's time to get it out there. | |
729 | ||
730 | With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while | |
731 | we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd, | |
732 | back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass. | |
733 | ||
734 | ||
735 | ||
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736 | 2016 August 10 |
737 | ||
738 | nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on | |
739 | a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very | |
740 | first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it | |
741 | holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits | |
742 | (when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug | |
743 | in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in | |
744 | a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid | |
0fe6854f | 745 | bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Santé! |
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746 | |
747 | ||
748 | ||
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749 | 2016 July 28 |
750 | ||
751 | nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the | |
752 | keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks | |
753 | of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which | |
754 | characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered | |
755 | word-forming. Further, it provides feedback during Unicode | |
756 | input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which | |
757 | must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the | |
758 | window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after | |
759 | having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line | |
760 | anchor (^) just once per line. There are also several tiny | |
761 | improvements in screen rendering and key handling. | |
762 | Come get your hair tousled! | |
763 | ||
764 | ||
765 | ||
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766 | 2016 June 27 |
767 | ||
768 | nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but also | |
769 | adds one little feature (the ability to use negative numbers | |
770 | with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom), | |
771 | includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes three tiny | |
772 | bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren't | |
773 | even worth mentioning). | |
774 | ||
775 | ||
776 | ||
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777 | 2016 June 17 |
778 | ||
779 | nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and | |
780 | some of them not so little. It improves moving about in | |
781 | the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell | |
782 | checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with | |
783 | default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer, | |
784 | shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor | |
785 | is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if | |
786 | there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes | |
787 | when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename | |
788 | on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches, | |
789 | and allows to abort re-searches. Among bunches of other | |
790 | things. It is worth the trouble to upgrade. | |
791 | ||
792 | And, with this release, we take leave of the herd... | |
793 | Bye! And thanks for all the grass! | |
794 | ||
795 | </pre> | |
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798 | </table> | |
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