]>
Commit | Line | Data |
---|---|---|
1 | <?php include "top.php"; ?> | |
2 | <title>GNU nano: News</title> | |
3 | <table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 COLS=1 WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="70%" NOSAVE > | |
4 | <tr VALIGN=TOP NOSAVE> | |
5 | <td HEIGHT="70%" NOSAVE> | |
6 | <table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 COLS=1 WIDTH="100%" NOSAVE > | |
7 | <tr NOSAVE> | |
8 | <td NOSAVE> | |
9 | ||
10 | <center><b>News</b></center> | |
11 | </td> | |
12 | </tr> | |
13 | ||
14 | <tr align="center"> | |
15 | <td> | |
16 | <br> | |
17 | <pre> | |
18 | ||
19 | 2018 September 9 | |
20 | ||
21 | GNU nano 3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the | |
22 | reading of a file by seventy percent, roughly doubles the | |
23 | speed of handling ASCII text, changes the way words at line | |
24 | boundaries are deleted, makes <Ctrl+Delete> wipe the next | |
25 | word and <Ctrl+Shift+Delete> the preceding word, binds M-Q | |
26 | to 'findprevious' by default (the Tabs-to-Spaces toggle is | |
27 | placed on M-O, and the More-Space toggle is fully removed), | |
28 | makes an external spell check undoable, shows the correct | |
29 | number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple | |
30 | files, removes the 'formatter' command, removes the | |
31 | 'searchagain' bindable function (M-W is now bound to | |
32 | 'findnext' by default), moves the No-Convert toggle to the | |
33 | Insert menu, removes the Backup and New-Buffer toggles from | |
34 | the main menu (they remain in the Write-Out and Insert | |
35 | menus, respectively), is more precise in what it accepts as | |
36 | a rebindable key name, ignores any presses of <Esc> before | |
37 | a valid command keystroke, recognizes some more escape | |
38 | sequences for modified editing-pad keys, does not hide | |
39 | rcfile error messages on a Linux console, renames the | |
40 | bindable functions 'copytext' to 'copy' and 'uncut' to | |
41 | 'paste', and avoids a possible hang during a Full-Justify. | |
42 | ||
43 | ||
44 | ||
45 | 2018 June 2 | |
46 | ||
47 | GNU nano 2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the | |
48 | buffer (or the marked region) through an external command | |
49 | (^R^X and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is | |
50 | better at detecting and maintaining paragraphs, is able to | |
51 | justify //-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding | |
52 | of a key to a string lacks a closing quote, gives feedback | |
53 | about the number of lines written also when prepending or | |
54 | appending, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter. | |
55 | ||
56 | ||
57 | ||
58 | 2018 May 15 | |
59 | ||
60 | GNU nano 2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option '--afterends' | |
61 | for making Ctrl+Right (the nextword function) stop at word | |
62 | ends instead of beginnings, accepts multibyte letters for | |
63 | the Yes/No/All answers, does emergency saves of changed | |
64 | buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes, adds the | |
65 | until-now missing bindable function 'linenumbers', and | |
66 | renames the toggles 'constupdate' to 'constantshow' and | |
67 | 'cuttoend' to 'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the | |
68 | corresponding options -- adjust your nanorc files soon. | |
69 | ||
70 | ||
71 | ||
72 | 2018 April 27 | |
73 | ||
74 | GNU nano 2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion, | |
75 | makes --enable-altrcname work again, improves the fluidity | |
76 | of scrolling when using the touchpad, tweaks the syntaxes | |
77 | for shell scripts and PO files, makes a replacing session | |
78 | go always forward by default, no longer inserts a newline | |
79 | after an external spell check of a selected region, always | |
80 | accepts the English Y and N (and A) at a yes-no prompt in | |
81 | any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs. | |
82 | ||
83 | ||
84 | ||
85 | 2018 March 29 | |
86 | ||
87 | GNU nano 2.9.5 "Kiša pada" changes the way the Scroll-Up | |
88 | and Scroll-Down commands work (M-- and M-+): instead of | |
89 | keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now | |
90 | keep the cursor in the same text position (if possible). | |
91 | This version further adds a new color name, "normal", | |
92 | which gives the default foreground or background color, | |
93 | which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous | |
94 | painting by earlier syntax regexes. Bug fixes include: | |
95 | a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted | |
96 | mode, the reading in of a new file being "undoable", a | |
97 | slight miswrapping of help texts when --linenumbers was | |
98 | used, and the shell syntax coloring the word "tar" in | |
99 | file names. | |
100 | ||
101 | ||
102 | ||
103 | 2018 March 8 | |
104 | ||
105 | GNU nano 2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a string | |
106 | (any piece of text and/or commands), permits customizing | |
107 | the color of error messages with 'set errorcolor', colors | |
108 | those error messages by default in bright white on red, | |
109 | makes <Enter> at the bottom of the screen scroll just one | |
110 | row when --smooth is used, does not fail when redoing a | |
111 | file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any | |
112 | cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor | |
113 | cannot move. Further, it treats tabs fully the same as | |
114 | spaces when doing automatic hard-wrapping, allows syntax | |
115 | names to be unquoted, and removes two deprecated options | |
116 | and six deprecated bindable function names. | |
117 | ||
118 | ||
119 | ||
120 | 2018 January 29 | |
121 | ||
122 | GNU nano 2.9.3 "Córdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks | |
123 | that could occur when a typed space caused the word after | |
124 | it to be pushed to the next line. It further makes macros | |
125 | work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences, | |
126 | adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line, | |
127 | recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals, | |
128 | no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible | |
129 | whitespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing | |
130 | replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named | |
131 | pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects | |
132 | a needed color change when a line contains a start match | |
133 | but not a corresponding end match any more. Plus some | |
134 | other small fry. | |
135 | ||
136 | ||
137 | ||
138 | 2018 January 2 | |
139 | ||
140 | GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified | |
141 | state when undoing/redoing (also when the file was saved | |
142 | somewhere midway), improves the undoing of an automatic | |
143 | linefeed at EOF, fixes a build issue on the BSDs, shows | |
144 | the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames | |
145 | the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will | |
146 | now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing | |
147 | (and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words | |
148 | to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes | |
149 | <Tab> and <Shift+Tab> indent and unindent a marked region, | |
150 | allows unindenting when not all lines are indented, lets a | |
151 | region marked with Shift persist when indenting/unindenting | |
152 | or commenting/uncommenting it, and in those cases excludes | |
153 | the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked | |
154 | (which makes for a more intuitive behavior). | |
155 | ||
156 | ||
157 | ||
158 | 2017 November 27 | |
159 | ||
160 | GNU nano 2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where, when the mark | |
161 | is on, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked | |
162 | region. This release further clears the "Modified" flag | |
163 | when all edits are undone, adds or updates some magic | |
164 | strings, and does not forget when the cursor was last | |
165 | at line 1, column 1. | |
166 | ||
167 | ||
168 | ||
169 | 2017 November 18 | |
170 | ||
171 | GNU nano 2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record and | |
172 | replay keystrokes (M-: to start and stop recording, M-; | |
173 | to play the macro back), makes ^Q and ^S do something | |
174 | useful by default (^Q starts a backward search, and ^S | |
175 | saves the current file), changes ^W to start always a | |
176 | forward search, shows the number of open buffers (when | |
177 | more than one) in the title bar, no longer asks to press | |
178 | Enter when there are errors in an rc file, retires the | |
179 | options '--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards', | |
180 | makes indenting and unindenting undoable, will look in | |
181 | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file and in $XDG_DATA_HOME | |
182 | for the history files, adds a history stack for executed | |
183 | commands (^R^X), does not overwrite the position-history | |
184 | file of another nano, and fixes a score of tiny bugs. | |
185 | ||
186 | ||
187 | ||
188 | 2017 August 27 | |
189 | ||
190 | GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are | |
191 | wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting | |
192 | more predictable by retaining relative indentations, | |
193 | allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes | |
194 | in Python to not be followed by a character, does not | |
195 | scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds | |
196 | Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and | |
197 | fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping | |
198 | and boundary-crossing tabs. Enjoy. | |
199 | ||
200 | ||
201 | ||
202 | 2017 July 21 | |
203 | ||
204 | GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a new feature: the ability | |
205 | to do softwrapping between words -- at whitespace -- | |
206 | instead of always at the edge of the screen. This can | |
207 | be activated with -a or --atblanks or 'set atblanks' | |
208 | together with the softwrap option. This release further | |
209 | fixes a handful of rare display glitches, fixes a build | |
210 | failure on AIX, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc | |
211 | files, and renames the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor' | |
212 | (please update your nanorc files before 2020). | |
213 | ||
214 | ||
215 | ||
216 | 2017 June 25 | |
217 | ||
218 | GNU nano 2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from | |
219 | a suspension that was induced from the outside, allows | |
220 | negative line and column numbers on the command line, | |
221 | avoids some flickering when resizing the screen while | |
222 | in the file browser, opens files in the order they were | |
223 | mentioned on the command line, and does not pretend to | |
224 | have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT. | |
225 | ||
226 | ||
227 | ||
228 | 2017 May 21 | |
229 | ||
230 | GNU nano 2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc | |
231 | man page again. | |
232 | ||
233 | ||
234 | ||
235 | 2017 May 18 | |
236 | ||
237 | GNU nano 2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight | |
238 | during interactive replacing, avoids build failures on AIX | |
239 | and Solaris, fixes a crash on Solaris, speeds up backwards | |
240 | searching, improves PHP syntax highlighting, and no longer | |
241 | asks "save anyway?" when the user ^Q discards the buffer. | |
242 | ||
243 | ||
244 | ||
245 | 2017 May 4 | |
246 | ||
247 | GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" adds another new feature: it makes | |
248 | the ^G help texts searchable with ^W. Apart from that, | |
249 | it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle | |
250 | of verbatim input, avoids an unlikely crash when used | |
251 | without UTF-8 support in some locales, avoids redrawing | |
252 | the screen twice when switching between buffers while | |
253 | line numbers are active, and works around a coloring | |
254 | bug on musl. Plus tweaks to the documentation; plus | |
255 | translation updates for fifteen languages. | |
256 | ||
257 | ||
258 | ||
259 | 2017 April 12 | |
260 | ||
261 | GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS and | |
262 | on musl, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when | |
263 | double-width characters on row boundaries are involved, | |
264 | shows double-width characters as ">" and "<" when split | |
265 | across two rows, moves the cursor more predictably (at | |
266 | the cost of sometimes putting it on the second "half" | |
267 | of a character), avoids creating lines that consist of | |
268 | only blanks when using autoindent, makes ^Home and ^End | |
269 | go to the start and end of the file (on terminals that | |
270 | support those keystrokes), places the cursor better when | |
271 | linting, lets the linter ask only once whether to open | |
272 | an included file, and adds bindings for ^Up and ^Down | |
273 | in the file browser. Don't sit on your hands. | |
274 | ||
275 | ||
276 | ||
277 | 2017 March 31 | |
278 | ||
279 | GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in | |
280 | softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from | |
281 | visual row to visual row instead of jumping between | |
282 | logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to | |
283 | the start and end of a row, and only when already | |
284 | there, then to the start and end of the logical line. | |
285 | Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead | |
286 | of always per logical line. On an entirely different | |
287 | front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build | |
288 | on more platforms. In short: there were many internal | |
289 | changes, not many user-visible ones (apart form the | |
290 | new softwrap navigation). The conversion to gnulib | |
291 | was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by | |
292 | David Ramsey. | |
293 | ||
294 | ||
295 | ||
296 | 2017 February 23 | |
297 | ||
298 | GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace | |
299 | the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things | |
300 | when multiline regexes with identical start and end are | |
301 | involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches, | |
302 | does replacements at the edges of a marked region right, | |
303 | no longer hides double-width characters at the head of | |
304 | softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at | |
305 | startup, and documents the ability to read a file from | |
306 | standard input. Come tickle my ears. | |
307 | ||
308 | ||
309 | ||
310 | 2017 January 10 | |
311 | ||
312 | GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly | |
313 | manner again (bug was introduced in previous version), | |
314 | sets the preferred x position for vertical movements | |
315 | more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in | |
316 | softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your | |
317 | system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of | |
318 | the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches. | |
319 | ||
320 | ||
321 | ||
322 | 2016 December 28 | |
323 | ||
324 | GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs: | |
325 | your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain | |
326 | newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching | |
327 | between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes, | |
328 | makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a | |
329 | Linux console, is more resistant against malformations | |
330 | in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is | |
331 | typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL. | |
332 | Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an | |
333 | unlocked file just after saving a new one. That's it. | |
334 | Tastes great with thick butter. | |
335 | ||
336 | ||
337 | ||
338 | 2016 December 12 | |
339 | ||
340 | GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature: | |
341 | the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default) | |
342 | a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in | |
343 | the current buffer. Besides, this release fixes two bugs | |
344 | related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to | |
345 | use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on | |
346 | VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering | |
347 | during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override | |
348 | an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected | |
349 | region after an external spell check, and improves a few | |
350 | other tidbits. If you should find any more bugs, please | |
351 | run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there. | |
352 | ||
353 | ||
354 | ||
355 | 2016 October 29 | |
356 | ||
357 | GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the | |
358 | ability to display line numbers beside the text. This can | |
359 | be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line, | |
360 | or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with | |
361 | M-#. The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the | |
362 | option 'set numbercolor'. This release furthermore fixes | |
363 | some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict | |
364 | in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer | |
365 | as modified when the output of a command (^R ^X) has been | |
366 | read into it. Come and check it out! | |
367 | ||
368 | ||
369 | ||
370 | 2016 September 1 | |
371 | ||
372 | GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to be | |
373 | selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys. | |
374 | Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny | |
375 | terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves | |
376 | the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces. Not much, | |
377 | but it's time to get it out there. | |
378 | ||
379 | With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while | |
380 | we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd, | |
381 | back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass. | |
382 | ||
383 | ||
384 | ||
385 | 2016 August 10 | |
386 | ||
387 | nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on | |
388 | a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very | |
389 | first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it | |
390 | holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits | |
391 | (when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug | |
392 | in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in | |
393 | a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid | |
394 | bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Santé! | |
395 | ||
396 | ||
397 | ||
398 | 2016 July 28 | |
399 | ||
400 | nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the | |
401 | keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks | |
402 | of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which | |
403 | characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered | |
404 | word-forming. Further, it provides feedback during Unicode | |
405 | input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which | |
406 | must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the | |
407 | window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after | |
408 | having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line | |
409 | anchor (^) just once per line. There are also several tiny | |
410 | improvements in screen rendering and key handling. | |
411 | Come get your hair tousled! | |
412 | ||
413 | ||
414 | ||
415 | 2016 June 27 | |
416 | ||
417 | nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but also | |
418 | adds one little feature (the ability to use negative numbers | |
419 | with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom), | |
420 | includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes three tiny | |
421 | bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren't | |
422 | even worth mentioning). | |
423 | ||
424 | ||
425 | ||
426 | 2016 June 17 | |
427 | ||
428 | nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and | |
429 | some of them not so little. It improves moving about in | |
430 | the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell | |
431 | checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with | |
432 | default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer, | |
433 | shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor | |
434 | is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if | |
435 | there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes | |
436 | when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename | |
437 | on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches, | |
438 | and allows to abort re-searches. Among bunches of other | |
439 | things. It is worth the trouble to upgrade. | |
440 | ||
441 | And, with this release, we take leave of the herd... | |
442 | Bye! And thanks for all the grass! | |
443 | ||
444 | </pre> | |
445 | </td> | |
446 | </tr> | |
447 | </table> | |
448 | ||
449 | <!--Please see the <A HREF="https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?group=nano">Savannah project's</A> | |
450 | news section to obtain the most recent nano news and information. | |
451 | --> | |
452 | ||
453 | </td> | |
454 | </tr> | |
455 | </table> | |
456 | <?php include "bottom.php"; ?> | |
457 |