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212020 April 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.2</b> "Mali Lo&scaron;inj"
22<br>
23<table><tr><td>
24 Another bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a likely crash<br>
25 after undoing an <Enter> at the end of leading whitespace.
26</td></tr></table>
27<br><br>
28
292020 March 31 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.1</b> "Sapperdeflap"
30<br>
31<table><tr><td>
32 Two bugs introduced in version 4.9 are fixed: the cursor<br>
33 getting misplaced when undoing line cuts, and filtering<br>
34 of the whole buffer to a new buffer not working.
35</td></tr></table>
36<br><br>
37
382020 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.9</b> "die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"
39<br>
40<table><tr><td><ul>
41<li>When justifying a selection, the new paragraph and the<br>
42 succeeding one get the appropriate first-line indent.</li>
43<li>Trying to justify an empty selection does not crash.</li>
44<li>Redoing the insertion of an empty file does not crash.</li>
45<li>On the BSDs and macOS, <tt>^H</tt> has become rebindable again<br>
46 (in most terminal emulators, not on the console).</li>
47<li>DOS line endings in nanorc files are accepted.</li>
48<li>Option <tt>--suspend</tt> / 'set suspend' has been renamed to<br>
49 the more logical <tt>--suspendable</tt> / 'set suspendable'.</li>
50</ul></td></tr></table>
51<br><br>
52
532020 February 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.8</b> "Ja&scaron;ka"
54<br>
55<table><tr><td><ul>
56<li>When something is pasted into nano, auto-indentation is suppressed,<br>
57 and the paste can be undone as a whole with a single <tt>M-U</tt>.</li>
58<li>When a lock file is encountered during startup, pressing <tt>^C</tt>/Cancel<br>
59 quits nano. (Pressing 'No' just skips the file and continues.)</li>
60<li>Shift+Meta+letter key combos can be bound with 'bind Sh-M-letter'.<br>
61 Making any such binding dismisses the default behavior of ignoring<br>
62 Shift for all Meta+letter keystrokes.</li>
63<li>The configuration option <tt>--with-slang</tt> (to be avoided when possible)<br>
64 can now be used only together with <tt>--enable-tiny</tt>.</li>
65<li>A custom nanorc file can be specified on the command line, with<br>
66 <tt>-f filename</tt> or <tt>--rcfile=filename</tt>.</li>
67</ul></td></tr></table>
68<br><br>
69
702019 December 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.7</b> "Havikskruid"
71<br>
72<table><tr><td><ul>
73<li>A &lt;Tab&gt; will indent a marked region only when mark and cursor are<br>
74 on different lines.</li>
75<li>Two indentations (any mix of tabs and spaces) are considered the<br>
76 same when they look the same (that is: indent to the same level).</li>
77<li>When using <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> or <tt>^J</tt>, a line will never be broken in<br>
78 its leading whitespace or quoting.</li>
79<li>The keywords in nanorc files must be in lowercase.</li>
80</ul></td></tr></table>
81<br><br>
82
832019 November 29 - <b>GNU nano 4.6</b> "And don't you eat that yellow snow"
84<br>
85<table><tr><td><ul>
86<li>The 'formatter' command has returned, bound by default to <tt>M-F</tt>.<br>
87 It allows running a syntax-specific command on the contents of<br>
88 the buffer.</li>
89<li><tt>^T</tt> will try to run 'hunspell' before 'spell', because it checks<br>
90 spellling for the locale's language and understands UTF-8.</li>
91<li>Multiple errors or warnings on startup will no longer slow nano<br>
92 down but will be indicated on the status bar with trailing dots.</li>
93</ul></td></tr></table>
94<br><br>
95
962019 October 4 - <b>GNU nano 4.5</b> "Ko&scaron;ice"
97<br>
98<table><tr><td><ul>
99<li>The new 'tabgives' command allows you to specify per syntax what<br>
100 the &lt;Tab&gt; key should produce: some spaces, a hard TAB, ...</li>
101<li>The output of <tt>--help</tt> is properly aligned again for all languages.</li>
102<li>&lt;Tab&gt; will indent a marked region also when <tt>M-}</tt> has been rebound.</li>
103</ul></td></tr></table>
104<br><br>
105
1062019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> "Hagelslag"
107<br>
108<table><tr><td><ul>
109<li>At startup, the cursor can be put on the first or last occurrence<br>
110 of a string by preceding the filename with <tt>+/string</tt> or <tt>+?string</tt>.</li>
111<li>When automatic hard-wrapping occurs (<tt>--breaklonglines</tt>), any leading<br>
112 quoting characters will be automatically copied to the new line.</li>
113<li><tt>M-6</tt> works again also when the cursor is at end of buffer.</li>
114</ul></td></tr></table>
115<br><br>
116
1172019 June 18 - <b>GNU nano 4.3</b> "Musa Kart"
118<br>
119<table><tr><td><ul>
120<li>The ability to read from and write to a FIFO has been regained.</li>
121<li>Startup time is reduced by fully parsing a syntax only when needed.</li>
122<li>Asking for help (<tt>^G</tt>) when using <tt>--operatingdir</tt> does not crash.</li>
123<li>The reading of a huge or slow file can be stopped with <tt>^C</tt>.</li>
124<li>Cut, zap, and copy operations are undone separately when intermixed.</li>
125<li><tt>M-D</tt> reports the correct number of lines (zero for an empty buffer).</li>
126</ul></td></tr></table>
127<br><br>
128
1292019 April 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.2</b> "Tax the rich, pay the teachers"
130<br>
131<table><tr><td><ul>
132<li>The integrated spell checker does not crash when 'spell' is missing.</li>
133<li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> works also when <tt>--ignorercfiles</tt> is used.</li>
134<li>Automatic hard-wrapping is more persistent in pushing words to the<br>
135 same overflow line.</li>
136</ul></td></tr></table>
137<br><br>
138
1392019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> "Qu&eacute; corchos ser&aacute; eso?"
140<br>
141<table><tr><td><ul>
142<li>By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the<br>
143 end of a buffer, to produce valid POSIX text files by default, but<br>
144 also to get back the easy adding of text at the bottom.</li>
145<li>The now unneeded option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) has been removed.</li>
146<li>Syntax files are read in alphabetical order when globbing, so that<br>
147 the precedence of syntaxes becomes predictable.</li>
148<li>In the C syntax, preprocessor directives are highlighted differently.</li>
149<li><tt>M-S</tt> now toggles soft wrapping, and <tt>M-N</tt> toggles line numbers.</li>
150<li>The jumpy-scrolling toggle has been removed.</li>
151<li>The legacy keystrokes <tt>^W^Y</tt> and <tt>^W^V</tt> are recognized again.</li>
152<li>Executing an external command is disallowed when in view mode.</li>
153<li>Problems with resizing during external or speller commands were fixed.</li>
154</ul></td></tr></table>
155<br><br>
156
1572019 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.0</b> "Thy Rope of Sands"
158<br>
159<table><tr><td><ul>
160<li>An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped.</li>
161<li>Smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default.</li>
162<li>A newline character is no longer automatically added at end of buffer.</li>
163<li>The line below the title bar is by default part of the editing space.</li>
164<li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> (<tt>-b</tt>) turns automatic hard-wrapping back on.</li>
165<li>Option <tt>--jumpyscrolling</tt> (<tt>-j</tt>) gives the chunky, half-screen scrolling.</li>
166<li>Option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) brings back the automatic newline at EOF.</li>
167<li>Option <tt>--emptyline</tt> (<tt>-e</tt>) leaves the line below the title bar unused.</li>
168<li>&lt;Alt+Up&gt; and &lt;Alt+Down&gt; now do a linewise scroll instead of a findnext.</li>
169<li>Any number of justifications can be undone (like all other operations).</li>
170<li>When marked text is justified, it becomes a single, separate paragraph.</li>
171<li>Option <tt>--guidestripe=&lt;number&gt;</tt> draws a vertical bar at the given column.</li>
172<li>Option <tt>--fill=&lt;number&gt;</tt> no longer turns on automatic hard-wrapping.</li>
173<li>When a line continues offscreen, it now ends with a highlighted "&gt;".</li>
174<li>The halves of a split two-column character are shown as "[" and "]".</li>
175<li>A line now scrolls horizontally one column earlier.</li>
176<li>The bindable functions 'cutwordleft' and 'cutwordright' were renamed<br>
177 to 'chopwordleft' and 'chopwordright' as they don't use the cutbuffer.</li>
178<li>The paragraph-jumping functions were moved from Search to Go-to-Line.</li>
179<li>Option <tt>--rebinddelete</tt> is able to compensate for more misbindings.</li>
180<li>Options <tt>--morespace</tt> and <tt>--smooth</tt> are obsolete and thus ignored.</li>
181<li>The <tt>--disable-wrapping-as-root</tt> configure option was removed.</li>
182</ul></td></tr></table>
183<br>
184
185<pre>
186
1872018 November 11
188
189GNU nano 3.2 "Het kromme hout" changes the default binding
190for the linter to M-B so that the spell checker (^T) can
191always be used, and changes (when linting) the text in the
192title bar and the color of the status bar to make linting
193mode more obvious. It also adds a bindable 'zap' function
194for deleting a line or marked region without changing the
195cutbuffer, adds --zap to bind the &lt;Del&gt; and &lt;Backspace&gt;
196keys to the zap function when something is marked, and
197hard-binds &lt;Alt+Del&gt; to 'zap'. Furthermore, it shows the
198cursor also in the help viewer (when --showcursor is used),
199renames the bindable functions 'prevhistory' to 'older' and
200'nexthistory' to 'newer' (update your nanorcs when needed),
201reads the nanorc files also in restricted mode to allow
202customization by the user (if this should not be allowed,
203use --ignorercfiles in addition to --restricted), allows
204in view mode to open also other files (if this should not
205be allowed, use --restricted in addition to --view), makes
206resizes respect a relative --fill again, no longer binds
207F13...F15 by default, properly re-highlights a misspelled
208word after invoking help in the internal spell checker,
209and does not skip Unicode characters in string binds.
210
211
212
2132018 September 18
214
215GNU nano 3.1 "Je faisais des bonds comme &ccedil;a!" fixes a
216misbinding of ^H on some terminals and some systems,
217does not leave stray stuff after the prompt upon exit
218when having suspended nano while using --constantshow,
219and does not allow to toggle to Replace in view mode.
220
221
222
2232018 September 9
224
225GNU nano 3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the
226reading of a file by seventy percent, roughly doubles the
227speed of handling ASCII text, changes the way words at line
228boundaries are deleted, makes &lt;Ctrl+Delete&gt; wipe the next
229word and &lt;Ctrl+Shift+Delete&gt; the preceding word, binds M-Q
230to 'findprevious' by default (the Tabs-to-Spaces toggle is
231placed on M-O, and the More-Space toggle is fully removed),
232makes an external spell check undoable, shows the correct
233number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple
234files, removes the 'formatter' command, removes the
235'searchagain' bindable function (M-W is now bound to
236'findnext' by default), moves the No-Convert toggle to the
237Insert menu, removes the Backup and New-Buffer toggles from
238the main menu (they remain in the Write-Out and Insert
239menus, respectively), is more precise in what it accepts as
240a rebindable key name, ignores any presses of &lt;Esc&gt; before
241a valid command keystroke, recognizes some more escape
242sequences for modified editing-pad keys, does not hide
243rcfile error messages on a Linux console, renames the
244bindable functions 'copytext' to 'copy' and 'uncut' to
245'paste', and avoids a possible hang during a Full-Justify.
246
247
248
2492018 June 2
250
251GNU nano 2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the
252buffer (or the marked region) through an external command
253(^R^X and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is
254better at detecting and maintaining paragraphs, is able to
255justify //-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding
256of a key to a string lacks a closing quote, gives feedback
257about the number of lines written also when prepending or
258appending, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter.
259
260
261
2622018 May 15
263
264GNU nano 2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option '--afterends'
265for making Ctrl+Right (the nextword function) stop at word
266ends instead of beginnings, accepts multibyte letters for
267the Yes/No/All answers, does emergency saves of changed
268buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes, adds the
269until-now missing bindable function 'linenumbers', and
270renames the toggles 'constupdate' to 'constantshow' and
271'cuttoend' to 'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the
272corresponding options -- adjust your nanorc files soon.
273
274
275
2762018 April 27
277
278GNU nano 2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion,
279makes --enable-altrcname work again, improves the fluidity
280of scrolling when using the touchpad, tweaks the syntaxes
281for shell scripts and PO files, makes a replacing session
282go always forward by default, no longer inserts a newline
283after an external spell check of a selected region, always
284accepts the English Y and N (and A) at a yes-no prompt in
285any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs.
286
287
288
2892018 March 29
290
291GNU nano 2.9.5 "Ki&scaron;a pada" changes the way the Scroll-Up
292and Scroll-Down commands work (M-- and M-+): instead of
293keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now
294keep the cursor in the same text position (if possible).
295This version further adds a new color name, "normal",
296which gives the default foreground or background color,
297which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous
298painting by earlier syntax regexes. Bug fixes include:
299a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted
300mode, the reading in of a new file being "undoable", a
301slight miswrapping of help texts when --linenumbers was
302used, and the shell syntax coloring the word "tar" in
303file names.
304
305
306
3072018 March 8
308
309GNU nano 2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a string
310(any piece of text and/or commands), permits customizing
311the color of error messages with 'set errorcolor', colors
312those error messages by default in bright white on red,
313makes &lt;Enter&gt; at the bottom of the screen scroll just one
314row when --smooth is used, does not fail when redoing a
315file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any
316cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor
317cannot move. Further, it treats tabs fully the same as
318spaces when doing automatic hard-wrapping, allows syntax
319names to be unquoted, and removes two deprecated options
320and six deprecated bindable function names.
321
322
323
3242018 January 29
325
326GNU nano 2.9.3 "C&oacute;rdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks
327that could occur when a typed space caused the word after
328it to be pushed to the next line. It further makes macros
329work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences,
330adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line,
331recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals,
332no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible
333whitespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing
334replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named
335pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects
336a needed color change when a line contains a start match
337but not a corresponding end match any more. Plus some
338other small fry.
339
340
341
3422018 January 2
343
344GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified
345state when undoing/redoing (also when the file was saved
346somewhere midway), improves the undoing of an automatic
347linefeed at EOF, fixes a build issue on the BSDs, shows
348the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames
349the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will
350now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing
351(and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words
352to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes
353&lt;Tab&gt; and &lt;Shift+Tab&gt; indent and unindent a marked region,
354allows unindenting when not all lines are indented, lets a
355region marked with Shift persist when indenting/unindenting
356or commenting/uncommenting it, and in those cases excludes
357the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked
358(which makes for a more intuitive behavior).
359
360
361
3622017 November 27
363
364GNU nano 2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where, when the mark
365is on, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked
366region. This release further clears the "Modified" flag
367when all edits are undone, adds or updates some magic
368strings, and does not forget when the cursor was last
369at line 1, column 1.
370
371
372
3732017 November 18
374
375GNU nano 2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record and
376replay keystrokes (M-: to start and stop recording, M-;
377to play the macro back), makes ^Q and ^S do something
378useful by default (^Q starts a backward search, and ^S
379saves the current file), changes ^W to start always a
380forward search, shows the number of open buffers (when
381more than one) in the title bar, no longer asks to press
382Enter when there are errors in an rc file, retires the
383options '--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards',
384makes indenting and unindenting undoable, will look in
385$XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file and in $XDG_DATA_HOME
386for the history files, adds a history stack for executed
387commands (^R^X), does not overwrite the position-history
388file of another nano, and fixes a score of tiny bugs.
389
390
391
3922017 August 27
393
394GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are
395wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting
396more predictable by retaining relative indentations,
397allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes
398in Python to not be followed by a character, does not
399scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds
400Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and
401fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping
402and boundary-crossing tabs. Enjoy.
403
404
405
4062017 July 21
407
408GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekul&eacute;" offers a new feature: the ability
409to do softwrapping between words -- at whitespace --
410instead of always at the edge of the screen. This can
411be activated with -a or --atblanks or 'set atblanks'
412together with the softwrap option. This release further
413fixes a handful of rare display glitches, fixes a build
414failure on AIX, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc
415files, and renames the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor'
416(please update your nanorc files before 2020).
417
418
419
4202017 June 25
421
422GNU nano 2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from
423a suspension that was induced from the outside, allows
424negative line and column numbers on the command line,
425avoids some flickering when resizing the screen while
426in the file browser, opens files in the order they were
427mentioned on the command line, and does not pretend to
428have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT.
429
430
431
4322017 May 21
433
434GNU nano 2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc
435man page again.
436
437
438
4392017 May 18
440
441GNU nano 2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight
442during interactive replacing, avoids build failures on AIX
443and Solaris, fixes a crash on Solaris, speeds up backwards
444searching, improves PHP syntax highlighting, and no longer
445asks "save anyway?" when the user ^Q discards the buffer.
446
447
448
4492017 May 4
450
451GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" adds another new feature: it makes
452the ^G help texts searchable with ^W. Apart from that,
453it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle
454of verbatim input, avoids an unlikely crash when used
455without UTF-8 support in some locales, avoids redrawing
456the screen twice when switching between buffers while
457line numbers are active, and works around a coloring
458bug on musl. Plus tweaks to the documentation; plus
459translation updates for fifteen languages.
460
461
462
4632017 April 12
464
465GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS and
466on musl, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when
467double-width characters on row boundaries are involved,
468shows double-width characters as "&gt;" and "&lt;" when split
469across two rows, moves the cursor more predictably (at
470the cost of sometimes putting it on the second "half"
471of a character), avoids creating lines that consist of
472only blanks when using autoindent, makes ^Home and ^End
473go to the start and end of the file (on terminals that
474support those keystrokes), places the cursor better when
475linting, lets the linter ask only once whether to open
476an included file, and adds bindings for ^Up and ^Down
477in the file browser. Don't sit on your hands.
478
479
480
4812017 March 31
482
483GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in
484softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from
485visual row to visual row instead of jumping between
486logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to
487the start and end of a row, and only when already
488there, then to the start and end of the logical line.
489Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead
490of always per logical line. On an entirely different
491front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build
492on more platforms. In short: there were many internal
493changes, not many user-visible ones (apart form the
494new softwrap navigation). The conversion to gnulib
495was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by
496David Ramsey.
497
498
499
5002017 February 23
501
502GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace
503the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things
504when multiline regexes with identical start and end are
505involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches,
506does replacements at the edges of a marked region right,
507no longer hides double-width characters at the head of
508softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at
509startup, and documents the ability to read a file from
510standard input. Come tickle my ears.
511
512
513
5142017 January 10
515
516GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly
517manner again (bug was introduced in previous version),
518sets the preferred x position for vertical movements
519more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in
520softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your
521system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of
522the beginning-of-word anchor (\&lt;) in regex searches.
523
524
525
5262016 December 28
527
528GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs:
529your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain
530newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching
531between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes,
532makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a
533Linux console, is more resistant against malformations
534in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is
535typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL.
536Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an
537unlocked file just after saving a new one. That's it.
538Tastes great with thick butter.
539
540
541
5422016 December 12
543
544GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature:
545the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default)
546a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in
547the current buffer. Besides, this release fixes two bugs
548related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to
549use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on
550VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering
551during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override
552an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected
553region after an external spell check, and improves a few
554other tidbits. If you should find any more bugs, please
555run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there.
556
557
558
5592016 October 29
560
561GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the
562ability to display line numbers beside the text. This can
563be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line,
564or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with
565M-#. The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the
566option 'set numbercolor'. This release furthermore fixes
567some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict
568in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer
569as modified when the output of a command (^R ^X) has been
570read into it. Come and check it out!
571
572
573
5742016 September 1
575
576GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to be
577selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys.
578Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny
579terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves
580the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces. Not much,
581but it's time to get it out there.
582
583With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while
584we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd,
585back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass.
586
587
588
5892016 August 10
590
591nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on
592a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very
593first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it
594holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits
595(when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug
596in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in
597a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid
598bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Sant&eacute;!
599
600
601
6022016 July 28
603
604nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the
605keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks
606of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which
607characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered
608word-forming. Further, it provides feedback during Unicode
609input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which
610must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the
611window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after
612having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line
613anchor (^) just once per line. There are also several tiny
614improvements in screen rendering and key handling.
615Come get your hair tousled!
616
617
618
6192016 June 27
620
621nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but also
622adds one little feature (the ability to use negative numbers
623with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom),
624includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes three tiny
625bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren't
626even worth mentioning).
627
628
629
6302016 June 17
631
632nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and
633some of them not so little. It improves moving about in
634the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell
635checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with
636default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer,
637shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor
638is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if
639there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes
640when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename
641on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches,
642and allows to abort re-searches. Among bunches of other
643things. It is worth the trouble to upgrade.
644
645And, with this release, we take leave of the herd...
646Bye! And thanks for all the grass!
647
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