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  19 2017 February 23
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  21 GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace
  22 the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things
  23 when multiline regexes with identical start and end are
  24 involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches,
  25 does replacements at the edges of a marked region right,
  26 no longer hides double-width characters at the head of
  27 softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at
  28 startup, and documents the ability to read a file from
  29 standard input.  Come tickle my ears.
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  33 2017 January 10
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  35 GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly
  36 manner again (bug was introduced in previous version),
  37 sets the preferred x position for vertical movements
  38 more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in
  39 softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your
  40 system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of
  41 the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches.
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  45 2016 December 28
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  47 GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs:
  48 your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain
  49 newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching
  50 between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes,
  51 makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a
  52 Linux console, is more resistant against malformations
  53 in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is
  54 typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL.
  55 Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an
  56 unlocked file just after saving a new one.  That's it.
  57 Tastes great with thick butter.
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  61 2016 December 12
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  63 GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature:
  64 the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default)
  65 a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in
  66 the current buffer.  Besides, this release fixes two bugs
  67 related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to
  68 use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on
  69 VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering
  70 during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override
  71 an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected
  72 region after an external spell check, and improves a few
  73 other tidbits.  If you should find any more bugs, please
  74 run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there.
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  78 2016 October 29
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  80 GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the
  81 ability to display line numbers beside the text.  This can
  82 be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line,
  83 or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with
  84 M-#.  The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the
  85 option 'set numbercolor'.  This release furthermore fixes
  86 some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict
  87 in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer
  88 as modified when the output of a command (^R ^X) has been
  89 read into it.  Come and check it out!
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  93 2016 September 1
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  95 GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to be
  96 selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys.
  97 Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny
  98 terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves
  99 the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces.  Not much,
 100 but it's time to get it out there.
 101
 102 With this release we return to GNU.  For just a little while
 103 we dreamt we were tigers.  But we are back in the herd,
 104 back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass.
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 108 2016 August 10
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 110 nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on
 111 a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very
 112 first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it
 113 holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits
 114 (when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug
 115 in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in
 116 a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid
 117 bytes when holding down both Alt keys.  Santé!
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 121 2016 July 28
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 123 nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the
 124 keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks
 125 of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which
 126 characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered
 127 word-forming.  Further, it provides feedback during Unicode
 128 input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which
 129 must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the
 130 window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after
 131 having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line
 132 anchor (^) just once per line.  There are also several tiny
 133 improvements in screen rendering and key handling.
 134 Come get your hair tousled!
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 138 2016 June 27
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 140 nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but also
 141 adds one little feature (the ability to use negative numbers
 142 with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom),
 143 includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes three tiny
 144 bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren't
 145 even worth mentioning).
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 149 2016 June 17
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 151 nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and
 152 some of them not so little.  It improves moving about in
 153 the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell
 154 checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with
 155 default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer,
 156 shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor
 157 is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if
 158 there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes
 159 when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename
 160 on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches,
 161 and allows to abort re-searches.  Among bunches of other
 162 things.  It is worth the trouble to upgrade.
 163
 164 And, with this release, we take leave of the herd...
 165 Bye!  And thanks for all the grass!
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