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16 The following improvements are available in nano version
2.6:<br
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21 <li
>Trailing whitespace can be snipped from justified paragraphs
.</li
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22 <li
>Better feedback when a file is unwritable
or a directory inaccessible
.</li
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23 <li
>Bindable functions
for deleting a word to the left
and to the right
.</li
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24 <li
>A bindable
function for saving the current file without prompting
for its name
.</li
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26 <li
>Commenting
/uncommenting lines with a single
keystroke (M
-3).</li
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27 <li
>Resizing the window does not
exit from help viewer nor file browser
.</li
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28 <li
>On some terminals Ctrl+Left
and Ctrl+Right jump to previous
and next word
.</li
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29 <li
>A steadier movement of the highlight in the file browser
.</li
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37 The following improvements
and features are available in GNU nano version
2.4:<br
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42 <li
>The ability to give different colours to titlebar
, statusbar
and help lines
.</li
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43 <li
>Linter support
, for automatically putting the cursor on syntax errors
.</li
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44 <li
>Formatter support
, for normalizing the layout of a text instead of the spelling
.</li
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45 <li
>The undo
/redo system has reached a usable state
and is enabled by
default.</li
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47 <li
>No longer finds
"ghosts" of certain UTF
-8 characters
.</li
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48 <li
>Makes the mouse usable again
for clicking on shortcuts
.</li
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49 <li
>Fixes several syntax colouring issues
.</li
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50 <li
>Adds more syntax highlighting
examples (autoconf
, changelogs
, elisp
, Go
, guile
, javascript
,
51 json
, PO files
, postgresql
, texinfo
).</li
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59 The following improvements
and features are available in version
2.2:<br
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64 <li
>Customizable key bindings
.</li
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65 <li
>Abortable
searching (^C after ^W
).</li
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66 <li
>Partial undo
/redo support
[EXPERIMENTAL
].</li
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67 <li
>Pager
support (i
.e
. reading from stdin
).</li
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73 <li
>Warnings
for unwritable files
and for external modification since opening
.</li
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74 <li
>"Soft" line
wrapping (i
.e
. display of complete lines
).</li
>
75 <li
>More syntax highlighting
examples (Fortran
, objC
, OCaml
, Makefiles
).</li
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76 <li
>Faster syntax highlighting
for complicated regexes
.</li
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84 The following improvements
and features are available in version
2.0:<br
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89 <li
>UTF
-8 support
.</li
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90 <li
>Improved color syntax highlighting
.</li
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91 <li
>Copy text without cutting it
.</li
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92 <li
>Verbatim input mode
.</li
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93 <li
>Repeat last seach without
confirmation (Meta
-W
).</li
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99 <li
>Spell check
/replace selected text only
.</li
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100 <li
>Indent marked text
.</li
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101 <li
>Move to beginning
/end of paragraph
.</li
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102 <li
>Search within the file browser
.</li
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103 <li
>Auto
-conversion of
mixed file format
</li
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111 The following
new and changed features are available in version
1.2:<br
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116 <li
>More Pico compatible by
default.</li
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117 <li
>Smooth
scrolling (-S flag
).</li
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118 <li
>Bracket
matching (Meta
-]).</li
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119 <li
>.nanorc support
.</li
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120 <li
>Color syntax highlighting
.</li
>
121 <li
>Search
and replace history editing
.</li
>
122 <li
>Customizable quoting
string (-Q flag
).</li
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128 <li
>Append
/prepend from write file menu
.</li
>
129 <li
>Write selected text to
file (^O after ^^
).</li
>
130 <li
>Multiple file
buffers (-F flag
).</li
>
131 <li
>Mac
/Dos
/NoConvert file
format (-M
, -D
, -N
).</li
>
132 <li
>Saved search
/replace
history (-H flag
).</li
>
133 <li
>Backup
files (-B flag
).</li
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134 <li
>Insert output of
command (^X after ^R
).</li
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142 Version
1.0 of GNU nano had the following features
:<br
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147 <li
>Autoconf support
.</li
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148 <li
>Truly free
license (GNU GPL
). 
;</li
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149 <li
>Goto-line
# command without a flag. </li>
150 <li
>Case-sensitive search
function. 
;</li
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151 <li
>Interactive search
and replace
. 
;</li
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152 <li
>2/3 - 1/8 size of Pico binary
.</li
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158 <li
>Slang
and ncurses support
.</li
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159 <li
>Autoindent abillity
.</li
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160 <li
>Displayed tab width option
. 
;</li
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161 <li
>Regular expression search
and replace
. 
;</li
>
162 <li
>Toggles
for command
-line flags via Meta keys
. 
;</li
>
163 <li
>Tab completion when reading
/writing files
. 
;</li
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