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   1 <?php $title="History";  include "top.php"; ?>
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   3 <br>
   4 <center><b>History</b></center>
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   8 <blockquote><br>
   9 Improvements made in version 2.6:<br>
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  13 <UL>
  14 <li>Trailing whitespace can be snipped from justified paragraphs.</li>
  15 <li>Better feedback when a file is unwritable or a directory inaccessible.</li>
  16 <li>Bindable functions for deleting a word to the left and to the right.</li>
  17 <li>A bindable function for saving the current file without prompting for its name.<br><br></li>
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  19 <li>Commenting/uncommenting lines with a single keystroke (M-3).</li>
  20 <li>Resizing the window does not exit from help viewer nor file browser.</li>
  21 <li>On some terminals Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right jump to previous and next word.</li>
  22 <li>A steadier movement of the highlight in the file browser.</li>
  23 </UL>
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  26 </blockquote>
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  29 <blockquote><br>
  30 Improvements made in version 2.4:<br>
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  34 <UL>
  35 <li>The ability to give different colors to title bar, status bar and help lines.</li>
  36 <li>Linter support, for automatically putting the cursor on syntax errors.</li>
  37 <li>Formatter support, for normalizing the layout of a text instead of the spelling.</li>
  38 <li>The undo/redo system has reached a usable state and is enabled by default.<br><br></li>
  39
  40 <li>No longer finds "ghosts" of certain UTF-8 characters.</li>
  41 <li>Makes the mouse usable again for clicking on shortcuts.</li>
  42 <li>Fixes several syntax coloring issues.</li>
  43 <li>Adds more syntax highlighting examples (Go, guile, javascript, json, PO files, texinfo, ...).</li>
  44 </UL>
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  47 </blockquote>
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  50 <blockquote><br>
  51 Improvements made in version 2.2:<br>
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  55 <UL>
  56 <li>Customizable key bindings.</li>
  57 <li>Abortable searching (^C after ^W).</li>
  58 <li>Partial undo/redo support [EXPERIMENTAL].</li>
  59 <li>Pager support (i.e. reading from stdin).</li>
  60 </UL>
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  64 <UL>
  65 <li>Warnings for unwritable files and for external modification since opening.</li>
  66 <li>"Soft" line wrapping (i.e. display of complete lines).</li>
  67 <li>More syntax highlighting examples (Fortran, objC, OCaml, Makefiles).</li>
  68 <li>Faster syntax highlighting for complicated regexes.</li>
  69 </UL>
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  72 </blockquote>
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  75 <blockquote><br>
  76 Improvements made in version 2.0:<br>
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  80 <UL>
  81 <li>UTF-8 support.</li>
  82 <li>Improved color syntax highlighting.</li>
  83 <li>Copy text without cutting it.</li>
  84 <li>Verbatim input mode.</li>
  85 <li>Repeat last seach (Meta-W).</li>
  86 </UL>
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  90 <UL>
  91 <li>Spell check/replace selected text only.</li>
  92 <li>Indent marked text.</li>
  93 <li>Move to beginning/end of paragraph.</li>
  94 <li>Search within the file browser.</li>
  95 <li>Auto-conversion of mixed file format.</li>
  96 </UL>
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  99 </blockquote>
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 101
 102 <blockquote><br>
 103 Improvements made in version 1.2:<br>
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 107 <UL>
 108 <li>More Pico compatible by default.</li>
 109 <li>Smooth scrolling (-S flag).</li>
 110 <li>Bracket matching (Meta-]).</li>
 111 <li>.nanorc support.</li>
 112 <li>Color syntax highlighting.</li>
 113 <li>Search and replace history editing.</li>
 114 <li>Customizable quoting string (-Q flag).</li>
 115 </UL>
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 119 <UL>
 120 <li>Append/prepend from write file menu.</li>
 121 <li>Write selected text to file (^O after ^^).</li>
 122 <li>Multiple file buffers (-F flag).</li>
 123 <li>Support for Mac and DOS file format.</li>
 124 <li>Saved search/replace history (-H flag).</li>
 125 <li>Backup files (-B flag).</li>
 126 <li>Insert output of command (^X after ^R).</li>
 127 </UL>
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 130 </blockquote>
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 132
 133 <blockquote><br>
 134 Version 1.0 had the following features:<br>
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 137
 138 <UL>
 139 <li>Autoconf support.</li>
 140 <li>Truly free license (GNU GPL).</li>
 141 <li>Goto-line command without a flag.</li>
 142 <li>Case-sensitive search function.</li>
 143 <li>Interactive search and replace.</li>
 144 <li>About half the size of the Pico binary.</li>
 145 </UL>
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 149 <UL>
 150 <li>Slang and ncurses support.</li>
 151 <li>Autoindent abillity.</li>
 152 <li>Displayed tab width option.</li>
 153 <li>Regular-expression search and replace.</li>
 154 <li>Toggles for command-line flags via Meta keys.</li>
 155 <li>Tab completion when reading/writing files.</li>
 156 </UL>
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 159 </blockquote>
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