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10 | <center><b>News</b></center> | |
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19 | 2018 September 18 | |
20 | ||
21 | GNU nano 3.1 "Je faisais des bonds comme ça!" fixes a | |
22 | misbinding of ^H on some terminals and some systems, | |
23 | does not leave stray stuff after the prompt upon exit | |
24 | when having suspended nano while using --constantshow, | |
25 | and does not allow to toggle to Replace in view mode. | |
26 | ||
27 | ||
28 | ||
29 | 2018 September 9 | |
30 | ||
31 | GNU nano 3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the | |
32 | reading of a file by seventy percent, roughly doubles the | |
33 | speed of handling ASCII text, changes the way words at line | |
34 | boundaries are deleted, makes <Ctrl+Delete> wipe the next | |
35 | word and <Ctrl+Shift+Delete> the preceding word, binds M-Q | |
36 | to 'findprevious' by default (the Tabs-to-Spaces toggle is | |
37 | placed on M-O, and the More-Space toggle is fully removed), | |
38 | makes an external spell check undoable, shows the correct | |
39 | number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple | |
40 | files, removes the 'formatter' command, removes the | |
41 | 'searchagain' bindable function (M-W is now bound to | |
42 | 'findnext' by default), moves the No-Convert toggle to the | |
43 | Insert menu, removes the Backup and New-Buffer toggles from | |
44 | the main menu (they remain in the Write-Out and Insert | |
45 | menus, respectively), is more precise in what it accepts as | |
46 | a rebindable key name, ignores any presses of <Esc> before | |
47 | a valid command keystroke, recognizes some more escape | |
48 | sequences for modified editing-pad keys, does not hide | |
49 | rcfile error messages on a Linux console, renames the | |
50 | bindable functions 'copytext' to 'copy' and 'uncut' to | |
51 | 'paste', and avoids a possible hang during a Full-Justify. | |
52 | ||
53 | ||
54 | ||
55 | 2018 June 2 | |
56 | ||
57 | GNU nano 2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the | |
58 | buffer (or the marked region) through an external command | |
59 | (^R^X and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is | |
60 | better at detecting and maintaining paragraphs, is able to | |
61 | justify //-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding | |
62 | of a key to a string lacks a closing quote, gives feedback | |
63 | about the number of lines written also when prepending or | |
64 | appending, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter. | |
65 | ||
66 | ||
67 | ||
68 | 2018 May 15 | |
69 | ||
70 | GNU nano 2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option '--afterends' | |
71 | for making Ctrl+Right (the nextword function) stop at word | |
72 | ends instead of beginnings, accepts multibyte letters for | |
73 | the Yes/No/All answers, does emergency saves of changed | |
74 | buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes, adds the | |
75 | until-now missing bindable function 'linenumbers', and | |
76 | renames the toggles 'constupdate' to 'constantshow' and | |
77 | 'cuttoend' to 'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the | |
78 | corresponding options -- adjust your nanorc files soon. | |
79 | ||
80 | ||
81 | ||
82 | 2018 April 27 | |
83 | ||
84 | GNU nano 2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion, | |
85 | makes --enable-altrcname work again, improves the fluidity | |
86 | of scrolling when using the touchpad, tweaks the syntaxes | |
87 | for shell scripts and PO files, makes a replacing session | |
88 | go always forward by default, no longer inserts a newline | |
89 | after an external spell check of a selected region, always | |
90 | accepts the English Y and N (and A) at a yes-no prompt in | |
91 | any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs. | |
92 | ||
93 | ||
94 | ||
95 | 2018 March 29 | |
96 | ||
97 | GNU nano 2.9.5 "Kiša pada" changes the way the Scroll-Up | |
98 | and Scroll-Down commands work (M-- and M-+): instead of | |
99 | keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now | |
100 | keep the cursor in the same text position (if possible). | |
101 | This version further adds a new color name, "normal", | |
102 | which gives the default foreground or background color, | |
103 | which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous | |
104 | painting by earlier syntax regexes. Bug fixes include: | |
105 | a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted | |
106 | mode, the reading in of a new file being "undoable", a | |
107 | slight miswrapping of help texts when --linenumbers was | |
108 | used, and the shell syntax coloring the word "tar" in | |
109 | file names. | |
110 | ||
111 | ||
112 | ||
113 | 2018 March 8 | |
114 | ||
115 | GNU nano 2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a string | |
116 | (any piece of text and/or commands), permits customizing | |
117 | the color of error messages with 'set errorcolor', colors | |
118 | those error messages by default in bright white on red, | |
119 | makes <Enter> at the bottom of the screen scroll just one | |
120 | row when --smooth is used, does not fail when redoing a | |
121 | file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any | |
122 | cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor | |
123 | cannot move. Further, it treats tabs fully the same as | |
124 | spaces when doing automatic hard-wrapping, allows syntax | |
125 | names to be unquoted, and removes two deprecated options | |
126 | and six deprecated bindable function names. | |
127 | ||
128 | ||
129 | ||
130 | 2018 January 29 | |
131 | ||
132 | GNU nano 2.9.3 "Córdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks | |
133 | that could occur when a typed space caused the word after | |
134 | it to be pushed to the next line. It further makes macros | |
135 | work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences, | |
136 | adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line, | |
137 | recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals, | |
138 | no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible | |
139 | whitespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing | |
140 | replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named | |
141 | pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects | |
142 | a needed color change when a line contains a start match | |
143 | but not a corresponding end match any more. Plus some | |
144 | other small fry. | |
145 | ||
146 | ||
147 | ||
148 | 2018 January 2 | |
149 | ||
150 | GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified | |
151 | state when undoing/redoing (also when the file was saved | |
152 | somewhere midway), improves the undoing of an automatic | |
153 | linefeed at EOF, fixes a build issue on the BSDs, shows | |
154 | the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames | |
155 | the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will | |
156 | now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing | |
157 | (and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words | |
158 | to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes | |
159 | <Tab> and <Shift+Tab> indent and unindent a marked region, | |
160 | allows unindenting when not all lines are indented, lets a | |
161 | region marked with Shift persist when indenting/unindenting | |
162 | or commenting/uncommenting it, and in those cases excludes | |
163 | the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked | |
164 | (which makes for a more intuitive behavior). | |
165 | ||
166 | ||
167 | ||
168 | 2017 November 27 | |
169 | ||
170 | GNU nano 2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where, when the mark | |
171 | is on, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked | |
172 | region. This release further clears the "Modified" flag | |
173 | when all edits are undone, adds or updates some magic | |
174 | strings, and does not forget when the cursor was last | |
175 | at line 1, column 1. | |
176 | ||
177 | ||
178 | ||
179 | 2017 November 18 | |
180 | ||
181 | GNU nano 2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record and | |
182 | replay keystrokes (M-: to start and stop recording, M-; | |
183 | to play the macro back), makes ^Q and ^S do something | |
184 | useful by default (^Q starts a backward search, and ^S | |
185 | saves the current file), changes ^W to start always a | |
186 | forward search, shows the number of open buffers (when | |
187 | more than one) in the title bar, no longer asks to press | |
188 | Enter when there are errors in an rc file, retires the | |
189 | options '--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards', | |
190 | makes indenting and unindenting undoable, will look in | |
191 | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file and in $XDG_DATA_HOME | |
192 | for the history files, adds a history stack for executed | |
193 | commands (^R^X), does not overwrite the position-history | |
194 | file of another nano, and fixes a score of tiny bugs. | |
195 | ||
196 | ||
197 | ||
198 | 2017 August 27 | |
199 | ||
200 | GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are | |
201 | wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting | |
202 | more predictable by retaining relative indentations, | |
203 | allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes | |
204 | in Python to not be followed by a character, does not | |
205 | scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds | |
206 | Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and | |
207 | fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping | |
208 | and boundary-crossing tabs. Enjoy. | |
209 | ||
210 | ||
211 | ||
212 | 2017 July 21 | |
213 | ||
214 | GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a new feature: the ability | |
215 | to do softwrapping between words -- at whitespace -- | |
216 | instead of always at the edge of the screen. This can | |
217 | be activated with -a or --atblanks or 'set atblanks' | |
218 | together with the softwrap option. This release further | |
219 | fixes a handful of rare display glitches, fixes a build | |
220 | failure on AIX, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc | |
221 | files, and renames the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor' | |
222 | (please update your nanorc files before 2020). | |
223 | ||
224 | ||
225 | ||
226 | 2017 June 25 | |
227 | ||
228 | GNU nano 2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from | |
229 | a suspension that was induced from the outside, allows | |
230 | negative line and column numbers on the command line, | |
231 | avoids some flickering when resizing the screen while | |
232 | in the file browser, opens files in the order they were | |
233 | mentioned on the command line, and does not pretend to | |
234 | have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT. | |
235 | ||
236 | ||
237 | ||
238 | 2017 May 21 | |
239 | ||
240 | GNU nano 2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc | |
241 | man page again. | |
242 | ||
243 | ||
244 | ||
245 | 2017 May 18 | |
246 | ||
247 | GNU nano 2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight | |
248 | during interactive replacing, avoids build failures on AIX | |
249 | and Solaris, fixes a crash on Solaris, speeds up backwards | |
250 | searching, improves PHP syntax highlighting, and no longer | |
251 | asks "save anyway?" when the user ^Q discards the buffer. | |
252 | ||
253 | ||
254 | ||
255 | 2017 May 4 | |
256 | ||
257 | GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" adds another new feature: it makes | |
258 | the ^G help texts searchable with ^W. Apart from that, | |
259 | it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle | |
260 | of verbatim input, avoids an unlikely crash when used | |
261 | without UTF-8 support in some locales, avoids redrawing | |
262 | the screen twice when switching between buffers while | |
263 | line numbers are active, and works around a coloring | |
264 | bug on musl. Plus tweaks to the documentation; plus | |
265 | translation updates for fifteen languages. | |
266 | ||
267 | ||
268 | ||
269 | 2017 April 12 | |
270 | ||
271 | GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS and | |
272 | on musl, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when | |
273 | double-width characters on row boundaries are involved, | |
274 | shows double-width characters as ">" and "<" when split | |
275 | across two rows, moves the cursor more predictably (at | |
276 | the cost of sometimes putting it on the second "half" | |
277 | of a character), avoids creating lines that consist of | |
278 | only blanks when using autoindent, makes ^Home and ^End | |
279 | go to the start and end of the file (on terminals that | |
280 | support those keystrokes), places the cursor better when | |
281 | linting, lets the linter ask only once whether to open | |
282 | an included file, and adds bindings for ^Up and ^Down | |
283 | in the file browser. Don't sit on your hands. | |
284 | ||
285 | ||
286 | ||
287 | 2017 March 31 | |
288 | ||
289 | GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in | |
290 | softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from | |
291 | visual row to visual row instead of jumping between | |
292 | logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to | |
293 | the start and end of a row, and only when already | |
294 | there, then to the start and end of the logical line. | |
295 | Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead | |
296 | of always per logical line. On an entirely different | |
297 | front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build | |
298 | on more platforms. In short: there were many internal | |
299 | changes, not many user-visible ones (apart form the | |
300 | new softwrap navigation). The conversion to gnulib | |
301 | was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by | |
302 | David Ramsey. | |
303 | ||
304 | ||
305 | ||
306 | 2017 February 23 | |
307 | ||
308 | GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace | |
309 | the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things | |
310 | when multiline regexes with identical start and end are | |
311 | involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches, | |
312 | does replacements at the edges of a marked region right, | |
313 | no longer hides double-width characters at the head of | |
314 | softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at | |
315 | startup, and documents the ability to read a file from | |
316 | standard input. Come tickle my ears. | |
317 | ||
318 | ||
319 | ||
320 | 2017 January 10 | |
321 | ||
322 | GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly | |
323 | manner again (bug was introduced in previous version), | |
324 | sets the preferred x position for vertical movements | |
325 | more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in | |
326 | softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your | |
327 | system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of | |
328 | the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches. | |
329 | ||
330 | ||
331 | ||
332 | 2016 December 28 | |
333 | ||
334 | GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs: | |
335 | your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain | |
336 | newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching | |
337 | between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes, | |
338 | makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a | |
339 | Linux console, is more resistant against malformations | |
340 | in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is | |
341 | typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL. | |
342 | Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an | |
343 | unlocked file just after saving a new one. That's it. | |
344 | Tastes great with thick butter. | |
345 | ||
346 | ||
347 | ||
348 | 2016 December 12 | |
349 | ||
350 | GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature: | |
351 | the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default) | |
352 | a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in | |
353 | the current buffer. Besides, this release fixes two bugs | |
354 | related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to | |
355 | use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on | |
356 | VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering | |
357 | during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override | |
358 | an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected | |
359 | region after an external spell check, and improves a few | |
360 | other tidbits. If you should find any more bugs, please | |
361 | run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there. | |
362 | ||
363 | ||
364 | ||
365 | 2016 October 29 | |
366 | ||
367 | GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the | |
368 | ability to display line numbers beside the text. This can | |
369 | be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line, | |
370 | or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with | |
371 | M-#. The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the | |
372 | option 'set numbercolor'. This release furthermore fixes | |
373 | some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict | |
374 | in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer | |
375 | as modified when the output of a command (^R ^X) has been | |
376 | read into it. Come and check it out! | |
377 | ||
378 | ||
379 | ||
380 | 2016 September 1 | |
381 | ||
382 | GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to be | |
383 | selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys. | |
384 | Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny | |
385 | terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves | |
386 | the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces. Not much, | |
387 | but it's time to get it out there. | |
388 | ||
389 | With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while | |
390 | we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd, | |
391 | back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass. | |
392 | ||
393 | ||
394 | ||
395 | 2016 August 10 | |
396 | ||
397 | nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on | |
398 | a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very | |
399 | first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it | |
400 | holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits | |
401 | (when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug | |
402 | in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in | |
403 | a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid | |
404 | bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Santé! | |
405 | ||
406 | ||
407 | ||
408 | 2016 July 28 | |
409 | ||
410 | nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the | |
411 | keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks | |
412 | of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which | |
413 | characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered | |
414 | word-forming. Further, it provides feedback during Unicode | |
415 | input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which | |
416 | must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the | |
417 | window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after | |
418 | having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line | |
419 | anchor (^) just once per line. There are also several tiny | |
420 | improvements in screen rendering and key handling. | |
421 | Come get your hair tousled! | |
422 | ||
423 | ||
424 | ||
425 | 2016 June 27 | |
426 | ||
427 | nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but also | |
428 | adds one little feature (the ability to use negative numbers | |
429 | with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom), | |
430 | includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes three tiny | |
431 | bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren't | |
432 | even worth mentioning). | |
433 | ||
434 | ||
435 | ||
436 | 2016 June 17 | |
437 | ||
438 | nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and | |
439 | some of them not so little. It improves moving about in | |
440 | the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell | |
441 | checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with | |
442 | default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer, | |
443 | shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor | |
444 | is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if | |
445 | there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes | |
446 | when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename | |
447 | on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches, | |
448 | and allows to abort re-searches. Among bunches of other | |
449 | things. It is worth the trouble to upgrade. | |
450 | ||
451 | And, with this release, we take leave of the herd... | |
452 | Bye! And thanks for all the grass! | |
453 | ||
454 | </pre> | |
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