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| 19 | |
| 20 | 2020 April 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.2</b> "Mali Lošinj" |
| 21 | <br> |
| 22 | <table><tr><td> |
| 23 | Another bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a likely crash<br> |
| 24 | after undoing an <Enter> at the end of leading whitespace. |
| 25 | </td></tr></table> |
| 26 | <br><br> |
| 27 | |
| 28 | 2020 March 31 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.1</b> "Sapperdeflap" |
| 29 | <br> |
| 30 | <table><tr><td> |
| 31 | Two bugs introduced in version 4.9 are fixed: the cursor<br> |
| 32 | getting misplaced when undoing line cuts, and filtering<br> |
| 33 | of the whole buffer to a new buffer not working. |
| 34 | </td></tr></table> |
| 35 | <br><br> |
| 36 | |
| 37 | 2020 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.9</b> "die fetten Jahre sind vorbei" |
| 38 | <br> |
| 39 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
| 40 | <li>When justifying a selection, the new paragraph and the<br> |
| 41 | succeeding one get the appropriate first-line indent.</li> |
| 42 | <li>Trying to justify an empty selection does not crash.</li> |
| 43 | <li>Redoing the insertion of an empty file does not crash.</li> |
| 44 | <li>On the BSDs and macOS, <tt>^H</tt> has become rebindable again<br> |
| 45 | (in most terminal emulators, not on the console).</li> |
| 46 | <li>DOS line endings in nanorc files are accepted.</li> |
| 47 | <li>Option <tt>--suspend</tt> / 'set suspend' has been renamed to<br> |
| 48 | the more logical <tt>--suspendable</tt> / 'set suspendable'.</li> |
| 49 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
| 50 | <br><br> |
| 51 | |
| 52 | 2020 February 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.8</b> "Jaška" |
| 53 | <br> |
| 54 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
| 55 | <li>When something is pasted into nano, auto-indentation is suppressed,<br> |
| 56 | and the paste can be undone as a whole with a single <tt>M-U</tt>.</li> |
| 57 | <li>When a lock file is encountered during startup, pressing <tt>^C</tt>/Cancel<br> |
| 58 | quits nano. (Pressing 'No' just skips the file and continues.)</li> |
| 59 | <li>Shift+Meta+letter key combos can be bound with 'bind Sh-M-letter'.<br> |
| 60 | Making any such binding dismisses the default behavior of ignoring<br> |
| 61 | Shift for all Meta+letter keystrokes.</li> |
| 62 | <li>The configuration option <tt>--with-slang</tt> (to be avoided when possible)<br> |
| 63 | can now be used only together with <tt>--enable-tiny</tt>.</li> |
| 64 | <li>A custom nanorc file can be specified on the command line, with<br> |
| 65 | <tt>-f filename</tt> or <tt>--rcfile=filename</tt>.</li> |
| 66 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
| 67 | <br><br> |
| 68 | |
| 69 | 2019 December 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.7</b> "Havikskruid" |
| 70 | <br> |
| 71 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
| 72 | <li>A <Tab> will indent a marked region only when mark and cursor are<br> |
| 73 | on different lines.</li> |
| 74 | <li>Two indentations (any mix of tabs and spaces) are considered the<br> |
| 75 | same when they look the same (that is: indent to the same level).</li> |
| 76 | <li>When using <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> or <tt>^J</tt>, a line will never be broken in<br> |
| 77 | its leading whitespace or quoting.</li> |
| 78 | <li>The keywords in nanorc files must be in lowercase.</li> |
| 79 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
| 80 | <br><br> |
| 81 | |
| 82 | 2019 November 29 - <b>GNU nano 4.6</b> "And don't you eat that yellow snow" |
| 83 | <br> |
| 84 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
| 85 | <li>The 'formatter' command has returned, bound by default to <tt>M-F</tt>.<br> |
| 86 | It allows running a syntax-specific command on the contents of<br> |
| 87 | the buffer.</li> |
| 88 | <li><tt>^T</tt> will try to run 'hunspell' before 'spell', because it checks<br> |
| 89 | spellling for the locale's language and understands UTF-8.</li> |
| 90 | <li>Multiple errors or warnings on startup will no longer slow nano<br> |
| 91 | down but will be indicated on the status bar with trailing dots.</li> |
| 92 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
| 93 | <br><br> |
| 94 | |
| 95 | 2019 October 4 - <b>GNU nano 4.5</b> "Košice" |
| 96 | <br> |
| 97 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
| 98 | <li>The new 'tabgives' command allows you to specify per syntax what<br> |
| 99 | the <Tab> key should produce: some spaces, a hard TAB, ...</li> |
| 100 | <li>The output of <tt>--help</tt> is properly aligned again for all languages.</li> |
| 101 | <li><Tab> will indent a marked region also when <tt>M-}</tt> has been rebound.</li> |
| 102 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
| 103 | <br><br> |
| 104 | |
| 105 | 2019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> "Hagelslag" |
| 106 | <br> |
| 107 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
| 108 | <li>At startup, the cursor can be put on the first or last occurrence<br> |
| 109 | of a string by preceding the filename with <tt>+/string</tt> or <tt>+?string</tt>.</li> |
| 110 | <li>When automatic hard-wrapping occurs (<tt>--breaklonglines</tt>), any leading<br> |
| 111 | quoting characters will be automatically copied to the new line.</li> |
| 112 | <li><tt>M-6</tt> works again also when the cursor is at end of buffer.</li> |
| 113 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
| 114 | <br><br> |
| 115 | |
| 116 | 2019 June 18 - <b>GNU nano 4.3</b> "Musa Kart" |
| 117 | <br> |
| 118 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
| 119 | <li>The ability to read from and write to a FIFO has been regained.</li> |
| 120 | <li>Startup time is reduced by fully parsing a syntax only when needed.</li> |
| 121 | <li>Asking for help (<tt>^G</tt>) when using <tt>--operatingdir</tt> does not crash.</li> |
| 122 | <li>The reading of a huge or slow file can be stopped with <tt>^C</tt>.</li> |
| 123 | <li>Cut, zap, and copy operations are undone separately when intermixed.</li> |
| 124 | <li><tt>M-D</tt> reports the correct number of lines (zero for an empty buffer).</li> |
| 125 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
| 126 | <br><br> |
| 127 | |
| 128 | 2019 April 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.2</b> "Tax the rich, pay the teachers" |
| 129 | <br> |
| 130 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
| 131 | <li>The integrated spell checker does not crash when 'spell' is missing.</li> |
| 132 | <li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> works also when <tt>--ignorercfiles</tt> is used.</li> |
| 133 | <li>Automatic hard-wrapping is more persistent in pushing words to the<br> |
| 134 | same overflow line.</li> |
| 135 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
| 136 | <br><br> |
| 137 | |
| 138 | 2019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> "Qué corchos será eso?" |
| 139 | <br> |
| 140 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
| 141 | <li>By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the<br> |
| 142 | end of a buffer, to produce valid POSIX text files by default, but<br> |
| 143 | also to get back the easy adding of text at the bottom.</li> |
| 144 | <li>The now unneeded option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) has been removed.</li> |
| 145 | <li>Syntax files are read in alphabetical order when globbing, so that<br> |
| 146 | the precedence of syntaxes becomes predictable.</li> |
| 147 | <li>In the C syntax, preprocessor directives are highlighted differently.</li> |
| 148 | <li><tt>M-S</tt> now toggles soft wrapping, and <tt>M-N</tt> toggles line numbers.</li> |
| 149 | <li>The jumpy-scrolling toggle has been removed.</li> |
| 150 | <li>The legacy keystrokes <tt>^W^Y</tt> and <tt>^W^V</tt> are recognized again.</li> |
| 151 | <li>Executing an external command is disallowed when in view mode.</li> |
| 152 | <li>Problems with resizing during external or speller commands were fixed.</li> |
| 153 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
| 154 | <br><br> |
| 155 | |
| 156 | 2019 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.0</b> "Thy Rope of Sands" |
| 157 | <br> |
| 158 | <table><tr><td><ul> |
| 159 | <li>An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped.</li> |
| 160 | <li>Smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default.</li> |
| 161 | <li>A newline character is no longer automatically added at end of buffer.</li> |
| 162 | <li>The line below the title bar is by default part of the editing space.</li> |
| 163 | <li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> (<tt>-b</tt>) turns automatic hard-wrapping back on.</li> |
| 164 | <li>Option <tt>--jumpyscrolling</tt> (<tt>-j</tt>) gives the chunky, half-screen scrolling.</li> |
| 165 | <li>Option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) brings back the automatic newline at EOF.</li> |
| 166 | <li>Option <tt>--emptyline</tt> (<tt>-e</tt>) leaves the line below the title bar unused.</li> |
| 167 | <li><Alt+Up> and <Alt+Down> now do a linewise scroll instead of a findnext.</li> |
| 168 | <li>Any number of justifications can be undone (like all other operations).</li> |
| 169 | <li>When marked text is justified, it becomes a single, separate paragraph.</li> |
| 170 | <li>Option <tt>--guidestripe=<number></tt> draws a vertical bar at the given column.</li> |
| 171 | <li>Option <tt>--fill=<number></tt> no longer turns on automatic hard-wrapping.</li> |
| 172 | <li>When a line continues offscreen, it now ends with a highlighted ">".</li> |
| 173 | <li>The halves of a split two-column character are shown as "[" and "]".</li> |
| 174 | <li>A line now scrolls horizontally one column earlier.</li> |
| 175 | <li>The bindable functions 'cutwordleft' and 'cutwordright' were renamed<br> |
| 176 | to 'chopwordleft' and 'chopwordright' as they don't use the cutbuffer.</li> |
| 177 | <li>The paragraph-jumping functions were moved from Search to Go-to-Line.</li> |
| 178 | <li>Option <tt>--rebinddelete</tt> is able to compensate for more misbindings.</li> |
| 179 | <li>Options <tt>--morespace</tt> and <tt>--smooth</tt> are obsolete and thus ignored.</li> |
| 180 | <li>The <tt>--disable-wrapping-as-root</tt> configure option was removed.</li> |
| 181 | </ul></td></tr></table> |
| 182 | <br> |
| 183 | |
| 184 | <pre> |
| 185 | |
| 186 | 2018 November 11 |
| 187 | |
| 188 | GNU nano 3.2 "Het kromme hout" changes the default binding |
| 189 | for the linter to M-B so that the spell checker (^T) can |
| 190 | always be used, and changes (when linting) the text in the |
| 191 | title bar and the color of the status bar to make linting |
| 192 | mode more obvious. It also adds a bindable 'zap' function |
| 193 | for deleting a line or marked region without changing the |
| 194 | cutbuffer, adds --zap to bind the <Del> and <Backspace> |
| 195 | keys to the zap function when something is marked, and |
| 196 | hard-binds <Alt+Del> to 'zap'. Furthermore, it shows the |
| 197 | cursor also in the help viewer (when --showcursor is used), |
| 198 | renames the bindable functions 'prevhistory' to 'older' and |
| 199 | 'nexthistory' to 'newer' (update your nanorcs when needed), |
| 200 | reads the nanorc files also in restricted mode to allow |
| 201 | customization by the user (if this should not be allowed, |
| 202 | use --ignorercfiles in addition to --restricted), allows |
| 203 | in view mode to open also other files (if this should not |
| 204 | be allowed, use --restricted in addition to --view), makes |
| 205 | resizes respect a relative --fill again, no longer binds |
| 206 | F13...F15 by default, properly re-highlights a misspelled |
| 207 | word after invoking help in the internal spell checker, |
| 208 | and does not skip Unicode characters in string binds. |
| 209 | |
| 210 | |
| 211 | |
| 212 | 2018 September 18 |
| 213 | |
| 214 | GNU nano 3.1 "Je faisais des bonds comme ça!" fixes a |
| 215 | misbinding of ^H on some terminals and some systems, |
| 216 | does not leave stray stuff after the prompt upon exit |
| 217 | when having suspended nano while using --constantshow, |
| 218 | and does not allow to toggle to Replace in view mode. |
| 219 | |
| 220 | |
| 221 | |
| 222 | 2018 September 9 |
| 223 | |
| 224 | GNU nano 3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the |
| 225 | reading of a file by seventy percent, roughly doubles the |
| 226 | speed of handling ASCII text, changes the way words at line |
| 227 | boundaries are deleted, makes <Ctrl+Delete> wipe the next |
| 228 | word and <Ctrl+Shift+Delete> the preceding word, binds M-Q |
| 229 | to 'findprevious' by default (the Tabs-to-Spaces toggle is |
| 230 | placed on M-O, and the More-Space toggle is fully removed), |
| 231 | makes an external spell check undoable, shows the correct |
| 232 | number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple |
| 233 | files, removes the 'formatter' command, removes the |
| 234 | 'searchagain' bindable function (M-W is now bound to |
| 235 | 'findnext' by default), moves the No-Convert toggle to the |
| 236 | Insert menu, removes the Backup and New-Buffer toggles from |
| 237 | the main menu (they remain in the Write-Out and Insert |
| 238 | menus, respectively), is more precise in what it accepts as |
| 239 | a rebindable key name, ignores any presses of <Esc> before |
| 240 | a valid command keystroke, recognizes some more escape |
| 241 | sequences for modified editing-pad keys, does not hide |
| 242 | rcfile error messages on a Linux console, renames the |
| 243 | bindable functions 'copytext' to 'copy' and 'uncut' to |
| 244 | 'paste', and avoids a possible hang during a Full-Justify. |
| 245 | |
| 246 | |
| 247 | |
| 248 | 2018 June 2 |
| 249 | |
| 250 | GNU nano 2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the |
| 251 | buffer (or the marked region) through an external command |
| 252 | (^R^X and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is |
| 253 | better at detecting and maintaining paragraphs, is able to |
| 254 | justify //-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding |
| 255 | of a key to a string lacks a closing quote, gives feedback |
| 256 | about the number of lines written also when prepending or |
| 257 | appending, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter. |
| 258 | |
| 259 | |
| 260 | |
| 261 | 2018 May 15 |
| 262 | |
| 263 | GNU nano 2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option '--afterends' |
| 264 | for making Ctrl+Right (the nextword function) stop at word |
| 265 | ends instead of beginnings, accepts multibyte letters for |
| 266 | the Yes/No/All answers, does emergency saves of changed |
| 267 | buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes, adds the |
| 268 | until-now missing bindable function 'linenumbers', and |
| 269 | renames the toggles 'constupdate' to 'constantshow' and |
| 270 | 'cuttoend' to 'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the |
| 271 | corresponding options -- adjust your nanorc files soon. |
| 272 | |
| 273 | |
| 274 | |
| 275 | 2018 April 27 |
| 276 | |
| 277 | GNU nano 2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion, |
| 278 | makes --enable-altrcname work again, improves the fluidity |
| 279 | of scrolling when using the touchpad, tweaks the syntaxes |
| 280 | for shell scripts and PO files, makes a replacing session |
| 281 | go always forward by default, no longer inserts a newline |
| 282 | after an external spell check of a selected region, always |
| 283 | accepts the English Y and N (and A) at a yes-no prompt in |
| 284 | any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs. |
| 285 | |
| 286 | |
| 287 | |
| 288 | 2018 March 29 |
| 289 | |
| 290 | GNU nano 2.9.5 "Kiša pada" changes the way the Scroll-Up |
| 291 | and Scroll-Down commands work (M-- and M-+): instead of |
| 292 | keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now |
| 293 | keep the cursor in the same text position (if possible). |
| 294 | This version further adds a new color name, "normal", |
| 295 | which gives the default foreground or background color, |
| 296 | which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous |
| 297 | painting by earlier syntax regexes. Bug fixes include: |
| 298 | a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted |
| 299 | mode, the reading in of a new file being "undoable", a |
| 300 | slight miswrapping of help texts when --linenumbers was |
| 301 | used, and the shell syntax coloring the word "tar" in |
| 302 | file names. |
| 303 | |
| 304 | |
| 305 | |
| 306 | 2018 March 8 |
| 307 | |
| 308 | GNU nano 2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a string |
| 309 | (any piece of text and/or commands), permits customizing |
| 310 | the color of error messages with 'set errorcolor', colors |
| 311 | those error messages by default in bright white on red, |
| 312 | makes <Enter> at the bottom of the screen scroll just one |
| 313 | row when --smooth is used, does not fail when redoing a |
| 314 | file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any |
| 315 | cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor |
| 316 | cannot move. Further, it treats tabs fully the same as |
| 317 | spaces when doing automatic hard-wrapping, allows syntax |
| 318 | names to be unquoted, and removes two deprecated options |
| 319 | and six deprecated bindable function names. |
| 320 | |
| 321 | |
| 322 | |
| 323 | 2018 January 29 |
| 324 | |
| 325 | GNU nano 2.9.3 "Córdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks |
| 326 | that could occur when a typed space caused the word after |
| 327 | it to be pushed to the next line. It further makes macros |
| 328 | work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences, |
| 329 | adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line, |
| 330 | recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals, |
| 331 | no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible |
| 332 | whitespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing |
| 333 | replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named |
| 334 | pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects |
| 335 | a needed color change when a line contains a start match |
| 336 | but not a corresponding end match any more. Plus some |
| 337 | other small fry. |
| 338 | |
| 339 | |
| 340 | |
| 341 | 2018 January 2 |
| 342 | |
| 343 | GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified |
| 344 | state when undoing/redoing (also when the file was saved |
| 345 | somewhere midway), improves the undoing of an automatic |
| 346 | linefeed at EOF, fixes a build issue on the BSDs, shows |
| 347 | the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames |
| 348 | the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will |
| 349 | now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing |
| 350 | (and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words |
| 351 | to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes |
| 352 | <Tab> and <Shift+Tab> indent and unindent a marked region, |
| 353 | allows unindenting when not all lines are indented, lets a |
| 354 | region marked with Shift persist when indenting/unindenting |
| 355 | or commenting/uncommenting it, and in those cases excludes |
| 356 | the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked |
| 357 | (which makes for a more intuitive behavior). |
| 358 | |
| 359 | |
| 360 | |
| 361 | 2017 November 27 |
| 362 | |
| 363 | GNU nano 2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where, when the mark |
| 364 | is on, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked |
| 365 | region. This release further clears the "Modified" flag |
| 366 | when all edits are undone, adds or updates some magic |
| 367 | strings, and does not forget when the cursor was last |
| 368 | at line 1, column 1. |
| 369 | |
| 370 | |
| 371 | |
| 372 | 2017 November 18 |
| 373 | |
| 374 | GNU nano 2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record and |
| 375 | replay keystrokes (M-: to start and stop recording, M-; |
| 376 | to play the macro back), makes ^Q and ^S do something |
| 377 | useful by default (^Q starts a backward search, and ^S |
| 378 | saves the current file), changes ^W to start always a |
| 379 | forward search, shows the number of open buffers (when |
| 380 | more than one) in the title bar, no longer asks to press |
| 381 | Enter when there are errors in an rc file, retires the |
| 382 | options '--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards', |
| 383 | makes indenting and unindenting undoable, will look in |
| 384 | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file and in $XDG_DATA_HOME |
| 385 | for the history files, adds a history stack for executed |
| 386 | commands (^R^X), does not overwrite the position-history |
| 387 | file of another nano, and fixes a score of tiny bugs. |
| 388 | |
| 389 | |
| 390 | |
| 391 | 2017 August 27 |
| 392 | |
| 393 | GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are |
| 394 | wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting |
| 395 | more predictable by retaining relative indentations, |
| 396 | allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes |
| 397 | in Python to not be followed by a character, does not |
| 398 | scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds |
| 399 | Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and |
| 400 | fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping |
| 401 | and boundary-crossing tabs. Enjoy. |
| 402 | |
| 403 | |
| 404 | |
| 405 | 2017 July 21 |
| 406 | |
| 407 | GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a new feature: the ability |
| 408 | to do softwrapping between words -- at whitespace -- |
| 409 | instead of always at the edge of the screen. This can |
| 410 | be activated with -a or --atblanks or 'set atblanks' |
| 411 | together with the softwrap option. This release further |
| 412 | fixes a handful of rare display glitches, fixes a build |
| 413 | failure on AIX, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc |
| 414 | files, and renames the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor' |
| 415 | (please update your nanorc files before 2020). |
| 416 | |
| 417 | |
| 418 | |
| 419 | 2017 June 25 |
| 420 | |
| 421 | GNU nano 2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from |
| 422 | a suspension that was induced from the outside, allows |
| 423 | negative line and column numbers on the command line, |
| 424 | avoids some flickering when resizing the screen while |
| 425 | in the file browser, opens files in the order they were |
| 426 | mentioned on the command line, and does not pretend to |
| 427 | have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT. |
| 428 | |
| 429 | |
| 430 | |
| 431 | 2017 May 21 |
| 432 | |
| 433 | GNU nano 2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc |
| 434 | man page again. |
| 435 | |
| 436 | |
| 437 | |
| 438 | 2017 May 18 |
| 439 | |
| 440 | GNU nano 2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight |
| 441 | during interactive replacing, avoids build failures on AIX |
| 442 | and Solaris, fixes a crash on Solaris, speeds up backwards |
| 443 | searching, improves PHP syntax highlighting, and no longer |
| 444 | asks "save anyway?" when the user ^Q discards the buffer. |
| 445 | |
| 446 | |
| 447 | |
| 448 | 2017 May 4 |
| 449 | |
| 450 | GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" adds another new feature: it makes |
| 451 | the ^G help texts searchable with ^W. Apart from that, |
| 452 | it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle |
| 453 | of verbatim input, avoids an unlikely crash when used |
| 454 | without UTF-8 support in some locales, avoids redrawing |
| 455 | the screen twice when switching between buffers while |
| 456 | line numbers are active, and works around a coloring |
| 457 | bug on musl. Plus tweaks to the documentation; plus |
| 458 | translation updates for fifteen languages. |
| 459 | |
| 460 | |
| 461 | |
| 462 | 2017 April 12 |
| 463 | |
| 464 | GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS and |
| 465 | on musl, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when |
| 466 | double-width characters on row boundaries are involved, |
| 467 | shows double-width characters as ">" and "<" when split |
| 468 | across two rows, moves the cursor more predictably (at |
| 469 | the cost of sometimes putting it on the second "half" |
| 470 | of a character), avoids creating lines that consist of |
| 471 | only blanks when using autoindent, makes ^Home and ^End |
| 472 | go to the start and end of the file (on terminals that |
| 473 | support those keystrokes), places the cursor better when |
| 474 | linting, lets the linter ask only once whether to open |
| 475 | an included file, and adds bindings for ^Up and ^Down |
| 476 | in the file browser. Don't sit on your hands. |
| 477 | |
| 478 | |
| 479 | |
| 480 | 2017 March 31 |
| 481 | |
| 482 | GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in |
| 483 | softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from |
| 484 | visual row to visual row instead of jumping between |
| 485 | logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to |
| 486 | the start and end of a row, and only when already |
| 487 | there, then to the start and end of the logical line. |
| 488 | Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead |
| 489 | of always per logical line. On an entirely different |
| 490 | front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build |
| 491 | on more platforms. In short: there were many internal |
| 492 | changes, not many user-visible ones (apart form the |
| 493 | new softwrap navigation). The conversion to gnulib |
| 494 | was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by |
| 495 | David Ramsey. |
| 496 | |
| 497 | |
| 498 | |
| 499 | 2017 February 23 |
| 500 | |
| 501 | GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace |
| 502 | the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things |
| 503 | when multiline regexes with identical start and end are |
| 504 | involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches, |
| 505 | does replacements at the edges of a marked region right, |
| 506 | no longer hides double-width characters at the head of |
| 507 | softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at |
| 508 | startup, and documents the ability to read a file from |
| 509 | standard input. Come tickle my ears. |
| 510 | |
| 511 | |
| 512 | |
| 513 | 2017 January 10 |
| 514 | |
| 515 | GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly |
| 516 | manner again (bug was introduced in previous version), |
| 517 | sets the preferred x position for vertical movements |
| 518 | more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in |
| 519 | softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your |
| 520 | system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of |
| 521 | the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches. |
| 522 | |
| 523 | |
| 524 | |
| 525 | 2016 December 28 |
| 526 | |
| 527 | GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs: |
| 528 | your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain |
| 529 | newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching |
| 530 | between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes, |
| 531 | makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a |
| 532 | Linux console, is more resistant against malformations |
| 533 | in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is |
| 534 | typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL. |
| 535 | Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an |
| 536 | unlocked file just after saving a new one. That's it. |
| 537 | Tastes great with thick butter. |
| 538 | |
| 539 | |
| 540 | |
| 541 | 2016 December 12 |
| 542 | |
| 543 | GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature: |
| 544 | the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default) |
| 545 | a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in |
| 546 | the current buffer. Besides, this release fixes two bugs |
| 547 | related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to |
| 548 | use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on |
| 549 | VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering |
| 550 | during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override |
| 551 | an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected |
| 552 | region after an external spell check, and improves a few |
| 553 | other tidbits. If you should find any more bugs, please |
| 554 | run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there. |
| 555 | |
| 556 | |
| 557 | |
| 558 | 2016 October 29 |
| 559 | |
| 560 | GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the |
| 561 | ability to display line numbers beside the text. This can |
| 562 | be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line, |
| 563 | or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with |
| 564 | M-#. The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the |
| 565 | option 'set numbercolor'. This release furthermore fixes |
| 566 | some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict |
| 567 | in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer |
| 568 | as modified when the output of a command (^R ^X) has been |
| 569 | read into it. Come and check it out! |
| 570 | |
| 571 | |
| 572 | |
| 573 | 2016 September 1 |
| 574 | |
| 575 | GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to be |
| 576 | selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys. |
| 577 | Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny |
| 578 | terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves |
| 579 | the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces. Not much, |
| 580 | but it's time to get it out there. |
| 581 | |
| 582 | With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while |
| 583 | we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd, |
| 584 | back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass. |
| 585 | |
| 586 | |
| 587 | |
| 588 | 2016 August 10 |
| 589 | |
| 590 | nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on |
| 591 | a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very |
| 592 | first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it |
| 593 | holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits |
| 594 | (when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug |
| 595 | in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in |
| 596 | a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid |
| 597 | bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Santé! |
| 598 | |
| 599 | |
| 600 | |
| 601 | 2016 July 28 |
| 602 | |
| 603 | nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the |
| 604 | keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks |
| 605 | of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which |
| 606 | characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered |
| 607 | word-forming. Further, it provides feedback during Unicode |
| 608 | input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which |
| 609 | must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the |
| 610 | window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after |
| 611 | having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line |
| 612 | anchor (^) just once per line. There are also several tiny |
| 613 | improvements in screen rendering and key handling. |
| 614 | Come get your hair tousled! |
| 615 | |
| 616 | |
| 617 | |
| 618 | 2016 June 27 |
| 619 | |
| 620 | nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but also |
| 621 | adds one little feature (the ability to use negative numbers |
| 622 | with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom), |
| 623 | includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes three tiny |
| 624 | bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren't |
| 625 | even worth mentioning). |
| 626 | |
| 627 | |
| 628 | |
| 629 | 2016 June 17 |
| 630 | |
| 631 | nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and |
| 632 | some of them not so little. It improves moving about in |
| 633 | the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell |
| 634 | checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with |
| 635 | default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer, |
| 636 | shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor |
| 637 | is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if |
| 638 | there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes |
| 639 | when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename |
| 640 | on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches, |
| 641 | and allows to abort re-searches. Among bunches of other |
| 642 | things. It is worth the trouble to upgrade. |
| 643 | |
| 644 | And, with this release, we take leave of the herd... |
| 645 | Bye! And thanks for all the grass! |
| 646 | |
| 647 | </pre> |
| 648 | </td> |
| 649 | </tr> |
| 650 | </table> |
| 651 | |
| 652 | </td> |
| 653 | </tr> |
| 654 | </table> |
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