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