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   3 <title>GNU nano: History</title>
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  10 <center><b>History</b></center>
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  15 Improvements made in version 2.6:<br>
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  19 <UL>
  20 <li>Trailing whitespace can be snipped from justified paragraphs.</li>
  21 <li>Better feedback when a file is unwritable or a directory inaccessible.</li>
  22 <li>Bindable functions for deleting a word to the left and to the right.</li>
  23 <li>A bindable function for saving the current file without prompting for its name.</li>
  24 <br>
  25 <li>Commenting/uncommenting lines with a single keystroke (M-3).</li>
  26 <li>Resizing the window does not exit from help viewer nor file browser.</li>
  27 <li>On some terminals Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right jump to previous and next word.</li>
  28 <li>A steadier movement of the highlight in the file browser.</li>
  29 </UL>
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  36 Improvements made in version 2.4:<br>
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  41 <li>The ability to give different colors to title bar, status bar and help lines.</li>
  42 <li>Linter support, for automatically putting the cursor on syntax errors.</li>
  43 <li>Formatter support, for normalizing the layout of a text instead of the spelling.</li>
  44 <li>The undo/redo system has reached a usable state and is enabled by default.</li>
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  46 <li>No longer finds "ghosts" of certain UTF-8 characters.</li>
  47 <li>Makes the mouse usable again for clicking on shortcuts.</li>
  48 <li>Fixes several syntax coloring issues.</li>
  49 <li>Adds more syntax highlighting examples (autoconf, changelogs, elisp, Go, guile, javascript,
  50 json, PO files, postgresql, texinfo).</li>
  51 </UL>
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  58 Improvements made in version 2.2:<br>
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  63 <li>Customizable key bindings.</li>
  64 <li>Abortable searching (^C after ^W).</li>
  65 <li>Partial undo/redo support [EXPERIMENTAL].</li>
  66 <li>Pager support (i.e. reading from stdin).</li>
  67 </UL>
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  71 <UL>
  72 <li>Warnings for unwritable files and for external modification since opening.</li>
  73 <li>"Soft" line wrapping (i.e. display of complete lines).</li>
  74 <li>More syntax highlighting examples (Fortran, objC, OCaml, Makefiles).</li>
  75 <li>Faster syntax highlighting for complicated regexes.</li>
  76 </UL>
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  82 <blockquote><br>
  83 Improvements made in version 2.0:<br>
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  87 <UL>
  88 <li>UTF-8 support.</li>
  89 <li>Improved color syntax highlighting.</li>
  90 <li>Copy text without cutting it.</li>
  91 <li>Verbatim input mode.</li>
  92 <li>Repeat last seach without confirmation (Meta-W).</li>
  93 </UL>
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  97 <UL>
  98 <li>Spell check/replace selected text only.</li>
  99 <li>Indent marked text.</li>
 100 <li>Move to beginning/end of paragraph.</li>
 101 <li>Search within the file browser.</li>
 102 <li>Auto-conversion of mixed file format.</li>
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 110 Improvements made in version 1.2:<br>
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 114 <UL>
 115 <li>More Pico compatible by default.</li>
 116 <li>Smooth scrolling (-S flag).</li>
 117 <li>Bracket matching (Meta-]).</li>
 118 <li>.nanorc support.</li>
 119 <li>Color syntax highlighting.</li>
 120 <li>Search and replace history editing.</li>
 121 <li>Customizable quoting string (-Q flag).</li>
 122 </UL>
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 126 <UL>
 127 <li>Append/prepend from write file menu.</li>
 128 <li>Write selected text to file (^O after ^^).</li>
 129 <li>Multiple file buffers (-F flag).</li>
 130 <li>Mac/Dos/NoConvert file format (-M, -D, -N).</li>
 131 <li>Saved search/replace history (-H flag).</li>
 132 <li>Backup files (-B flag).</li>
 133 <li>Insert output of command (^X after ^R).</li>
 134 </UL>
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 141 Version 1.0 had the following features:<br>
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 146 <li>Autoconf support.</li>
 147 <li>Truly free license (GNU GPL).</li>
 148 <li>Goto-line command without a flag.</li>
 149 <li>Case-sensitive search function.</li>
 150 <li>Interactive search and replace.</li>
 151 <li>About half the size of the Pico binary.</li>
 152 </UL>
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 156 <UL>
 157 <li>Slang and ncurses support.</li>
 158 <li>Autoindent abillity.</li>
 159 <li>Displayed tab width option.</li>
 160 <li>Regular-expression search and replace.</li>
 161 <li>Toggles for command-line flags via Meta keys.</li>
 162 <li>Tab completion when reading/writing files.</li>
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