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10 | <center><b>News</b></center> | |
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17 | <pre> | |
18 | ||
19 | 2018 June 2 | |
20 | ||
21 | GNU nano 2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the | |
22 | buffer (or the marked region) through an external command | |
23 | (^R^X and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is | |
24 | better at detecting and maintaining paragraphs, is able to | |
25 | justify //-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding | |
26 | of a key to a string lacks a closing quote, gives feedback | |
27 | about the number of lines written also when prepending or | |
28 | appending, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter. | |
29 | ||
30 | ||
31 | ||
32 | 2018 May 15 | |
33 | ||
34 | GNU nano 2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option '--afterends' | |
35 | for making Ctrl+Right (the nextword function) stop at word | |
36 | ends instead of beginnings, accepts multibyte letters for | |
37 | the Yes/No/All answers, does emergency saves of changed | |
38 | buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes, adds the | |
39 | until-now missing bindable function 'linenumbers', and | |
40 | renames the toggles 'constupdate' to 'constantshow' and | |
41 | 'cuttoend' to 'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the | |
42 | corresponding options -- adjust your nanorc files soon. | |
43 | ||
44 | ||
45 | ||
46 | 2018 April 27 | |
47 | ||
48 | GNU nano 2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion, | |
49 | makes --enable-altrcname work again, improves the fluidity | |
50 | of scrolling when using the touchpad, tweaks the syntaxes | |
51 | for shell scripts and PO files, makes a replacing session | |
52 | go always forward by default, no longer inserts a newline | |
53 | after an external spell check of a selected region, always | |
54 | accepts the English Y and N (and A) at a yes-no prompt in | |
55 | any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs. | |
56 | ||
57 | ||
58 | ||
59 | 2018 March 29 | |
60 | ||
61 | GNU nano 2.9.5 "Kiša pada" changes the way the Scroll-Up | |
62 | and Scroll-Down commands work (M-- and M-+): instead of | |
63 | keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now | |
64 | keep the cursor in the same text position (if possible). | |
65 | This version further adds a new color name, "normal", | |
66 | which gives the default foreground or background color, | |
67 | which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous | |
68 | painting by earlier syntax regexes. Bug fixes include: | |
69 | a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted | |
70 | mode, the reading in of a new file being "undoable", a | |
71 | slight miswrapping of help texts when --linenumbers was | |
72 | used, and the shell syntax coloring the word "tar" in | |
73 | file names. | |
74 | ||
75 | ||
76 | ||
77 | 2018 March 8 | |
78 | ||
79 | GNU nano 2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a string | |
80 | (any piece of text and/or commands), permits customizing | |
81 | the color of error messages with 'set errorcolor', colors | |
82 | those error messages by default in bright white on red, | |
83 | makes <Enter> at the bottom of the screen scroll just one | |
84 | row when --smooth is used, does not fail when redoing a | |
85 | file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any | |
86 | cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor | |
87 | cannot move. Further, it treats tabs fully the same as | |
88 | spaces when doing automatic hard-wrapping, allows syntax | |
89 | names to be unquoted, and removes two deprecated options | |
90 | and six deprecated bindable function names. | |
91 | ||
92 | ||
93 | ||
94 | 2018 January 29 | |
95 | ||
96 | GNU nano 2.9.3 "Córdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks | |
97 | that could occur when a typed space caused the word after | |
98 | it to be pushed to the next line. It further makes macros | |
99 | work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences, | |
100 | adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line, | |
101 | recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals, | |
102 | no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible | |
103 | whitespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing | |
104 | replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named | |
105 | pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects | |
106 | a needed color change when a line contains a start match | |
107 | but not a corresponding end match any more. Plus some | |
108 | other small fry. | |
109 | ||
110 | ||
111 | ||
112 | 2018 January 2 | |
113 | ||
114 | GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified | |
115 | state when undoing/redoing (also when the file was saved | |
116 | somewhere midway), improves the undoing of an automatic | |
117 | linefeed at EOF, fixes a build issue on the BSDs, shows | |
118 | the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames | |
119 | the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will | |
120 | now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing | |
121 | (and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words | |
122 | to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes | |
123 | <Tab> and <Shift+Tab> indent and unindent a marked region, | |
124 | allows unindenting when not all lines are indented, lets a | |
125 | region marked with Shift persist when indenting/unindenting | |
126 | or commenting/uncommenting it, and in those cases excludes | |
127 | the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked | |
128 | (which makes for a more intuitive behavior). | |
129 | ||
130 | ||
131 | ||
132 | 2017 November 27 | |
133 | ||
134 | GNU nano 2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where, when the mark | |
135 | is on, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked | |
136 | region. This release further clears the "Modified" flag | |
137 | when all edits are undone, adds or updates some magic | |
138 | strings, and does not forget when the cursor was last | |
139 | at line 1, column 1. | |
140 | ||
141 | ||
142 | ||
143 | 2017 November 18 | |
144 | ||
145 | GNU nano 2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record and | |
146 | replay keystrokes (M-: to start and stop recording, M-; | |
147 | to play the macro back), makes ^Q and ^S do something | |
148 | useful by default (^Q starts a backward search, and ^S | |
149 | saves the current file), changes ^W to start always a | |
150 | forward search, shows the number of open buffers (when | |
151 | more than one) in the title bar, no longer asks to press | |
152 | Enter when there are errors in an rc file, retires the | |
153 | options '--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards', | |
154 | makes indenting and unindenting undoable, will look in | |
155 | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file and in $XDG_DATA_HOME | |
156 | for the history files, adds a history stack for executed | |
157 | commands (^R^X), does not overwrite the position-history | |
158 | file of another nano, and fixes a score of tiny bugs. | |
159 | ||
160 | ||
161 | ||
162 | 2017 August 27 | |
163 | ||
164 | GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are | |
165 | wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting | |
166 | more predictable by retaining relative indentations, | |
167 | allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes | |
168 | in Python to not be followed by a character, does not | |
169 | scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds | |
170 | Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and | |
171 | fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping | |
172 | and boundary-crossing tabs. Enjoy. | |
173 | ||
174 | ||
175 | ||
176 | 2017 July 21 | |
177 | ||
178 | GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a new feature: the ability | |
179 | to do softwrapping between words -- at whitespace -- | |
180 | instead of always at the edge of the screen. This can | |
181 | be activated with -a or --atblanks or 'set atblanks' | |
182 | together with the softwrap option. This release further | |
183 | fixes a handful of rare display glitches, fixes a build | |
184 | failure on AIX, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc | |
185 | files, and renames the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor' | |
186 | (please update your nanorc files before 2020). | |
187 | ||
188 | ||
189 | ||
190 | 2017 June 25 | |
191 | ||
192 | GNU nano 2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from | |
193 | a suspension that was induced from the outside, allows | |
194 | negative line and column numbers on the command line, | |
195 | avoids some flickering when resizing the screen while | |
196 | in the file browser, opens files in the order they were | |
197 | mentioned on the command line, and does not pretend to | |
198 | have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT. | |
199 | ||
200 | ||
201 | ||
202 | 2017 May 21 | |
203 | ||
204 | GNU nano 2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc | |
205 | man page again. | |
206 | ||
207 | ||
208 | ||
209 | 2017 May 18 | |
210 | ||
211 | GNU nano 2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight | |
212 | during interactive replacing, avoids build failures on AIX | |
213 | and Solaris, fixes a crash on Solaris, speeds up backwards | |
214 | searching, improves PHP syntax highlighting, and no longer | |
215 | asks "save anyway?" when the user ^Q discards the buffer. | |
216 | ||
217 | ||
218 | ||
219 | 2017 May 4 | |
220 | ||
221 | GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" adds another new feature: it makes | |
222 | the ^G help texts searchable with ^W. Apart from that, | |
223 | it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle | |
224 | of verbatim input, avoids an unlikely crash when used | |
225 | without UTF-8 support in some locales, avoids redrawing | |
226 | the screen twice when switching between buffers while | |
227 | line numbers are active, and works around a coloring | |
228 | bug on musl. Plus tweaks to the documentation; plus | |
229 | translation updates for fifteen languages. | |
230 | ||
231 | ||
232 | ||
233 | 2017 April 12 | |
234 | ||
235 | GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS and | |
236 | on musl, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when | |
237 | double-width characters on row boundaries are involved, | |
238 | shows double-width characters as ">" and "<" when split | |
239 | across two rows, moves the cursor more predictably (at | |
240 | the cost of sometimes putting it on the second "half" | |
241 | of a character), avoids creating lines that consist of | |
242 | only blanks when using autoindent, makes ^Home and ^End | |
243 | go to the start and end of the file (on terminals that | |
244 | support those keystrokes), places the cursor better when | |
245 | linting, lets the linter ask only once whether to open | |
246 | an included file, and adds bindings for ^Up and ^Down | |
247 | in the file browser. Don't sit on your hands. | |
248 | ||
249 | ||
250 | ||
251 | 2017 March 31 | |
252 | ||
253 | GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in | |
254 | softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from | |
255 | visual row to visual row instead of jumping between | |
256 | logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to | |
257 | the start and end of a row, and only when already | |
258 | there, then to the start and end of the logical line. | |
259 | Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead | |
260 | of always per logical line. On an entirely different | |
261 | front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build | |
262 | on more platforms. In short: there were many internal | |
263 | changes, not many user-visible ones (apart form the | |
264 | new softwrap navigation). The conversion to gnulib | |
265 | was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by | |
266 | David Ramsey. | |
267 | ||
268 | ||
269 | ||
270 | 2017 February 23 | |
271 | ||
272 | GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace | |
273 | the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things | |
274 | when multiline regexes with identical start and end are | |
275 | involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches, | |
276 | does replacements at the edges of a marked region right, | |
277 | no longer hides double-width characters at the head of | |
278 | softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at | |
279 | startup, and documents the ability to read a file from | |
280 | standard input. Come tickle my ears. | |
281 | ||
282 | ||
283 | ||
284 | 2017 January 10 | |
285 | ||
286 | GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly | |
287 | manner again (bug was introduced in previous version), | |
288 | sets the preferred x position for vertical movements | |
289 | more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in | |
290 | softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your | |
291 | system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of | |
292 | the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches. | |
293 | ||
294 | ||
295 | ||
296 | 2016 December 28 | |
297 | ||
298 | GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs: | |
299 | your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain | |
300 | newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching | |
301 | between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes, | |
302 | makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a | |
303 | Linux console, is more resistant against malformations | |
304 | in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is | |
305 | typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL. | |
306 | Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an | |
307 | unlocked file just after saving a new one. That's it. | |
308 | Tastes great with thick butter. | |
309 | ||
310 | ||
311 | ||
312 | 2016 December 12 | |
313 | ||
314 | GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature: | |
315 | the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default) | |
316 | a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in | |
317 | the current buffer. Besides, this release fixes two bugs | |
318 | related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to | |
319 | use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on | |
320 | VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering | |
321 | during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override | |
322 | an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected | |
323 | region after an external spell check, and improves a few | |
324 | other tidbits. If you should find any more bugs, please | |
325 | run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there. | |
326 | ||
327 | ||
328 | ||
329 | 2016 October 29 | |
330 | ||
331 | GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the | |
332 | ability to display line numbers beside the text. This can | |
333 | be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line, | |
334 | or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with | |
335 | M-#. The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the | |
336 | option 'set numbercolor'. This release furthermore fixes | |
337 | some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict | |
338 | in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer | |
339 | as modified when the output of a command (^R ^X) has been | |
340 | read into it. Come and check it out! | |
341 | ||
342 | ||
343 | ||
344 | 2016 September 1 | |
345 | ||
346 | GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to be | |
347 | selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys. | |
348 | Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny | |
349 | terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves | |
350 | the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces. Not much, | |
351 | but it's time to get it out there. | |
352 | ||
353 | With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while | |
354 | we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd, | |
355 | back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass. | |
356 | ||
357 | ||
358 | ||
359 | 2016 August 10 | |
360 | ||
361 | nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on | |
362 | a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very | |
363 | first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it | |
364 | holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits | |
365 | (when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug | |
366 | in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in | |
367 | a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid | |
368 | bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Santé! | |
369 | ||
370 | ||
371 | ||
372 | 2016 July 28 | |
373 | ||
374 | nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the | |
375 | keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks | |
376 | of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which | |
377 | characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered | |
378 | word-forming. Further, it provides feedback during Unicode | |
379 | input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which | |
380 | must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the | |
381 | window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after | |
382 | having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line | |
383 | anchor (^) just once per line. There are also several tiny | |
384 | improvements in screen rendering and key handling. | |
385 | Come get your hair tousled! | |
386 | ||
387 | ||
388 | ||
389 | 2016 June 27 | |
390 | ||
391 | nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but also | |
392 | adds one little feature (the ability to use negative numbers | |
393 | with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom), | |
394 | includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes three tiny | |
395 | bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren't | |
396 | even worth mentioning). | |
397 | ||
398 | ||
399 | ||
400 | 2016 June 17 | |
401 | ||
402 | nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and | |
403 | some of them not so little. It improves moving about in | |
404 | the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell | |
405 | checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with | |
406 | default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer, | |
407 | shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor | |
408 | is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if | |
409 | there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes | |
410 | when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename | |
411 | on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches, | |
412 | and allows to abort re-searches. Among bunches of other | |
413 | things. It is worth the trouble to upgrade. | |
414 | ||
415 | And, with this release, we take leave of the herd... | |
416 | Bye! And thanks for all the grass! | |
417 | ||
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