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  19 2017 May 4
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  21 GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" adds another new feature: it makes
  22 the ^G help texts searchable with ^W.  Apart from that,
  23 it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle
  24 of verbatim input, avoids an unlikely crash when used
  25 without UTF-8 support in some locales, avoids redrawing
  26 the screen twice when switching between buffers while
  27 line numbers are active, and works around a coloring
  28 bug on musl.  Plus tweaks to the documentation; plus
  29 translation updates for fifteen languages.
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  33 2017 April 12
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  35 GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS and
  36 on musl, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when
  37 double-width characters on row boundaries are involved,
  38 shows double-width characters as ">" and "<" when split
  39 across two rows, moves the cursor more predictably (at
  40 the cost of sometimes putting it on the second "half"
  41 of a character), avoids creating lines that consist of
  42 only blanks when using autoindent, makes ^Home and ^End
  43 go to the start and end of the file (on terminals that
  44 support those keystrokes), places the cursor better when
  45 linting, lets the linter ask only once whether to open
  46 an included file, and adds bindings for ^Up and ^Down
  47 in the file browser.  Don't sit on your hands.
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  51 2017 March 31
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  53 GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in
  54 softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from
  55 visual row to visual row instead of jumping between
  56 logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to
  57 the start and end of a row, and only when already
  58 there, then to the start and end of the logical line.
  59 Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead
  60 of always per logical line.  On an entirely different
  61 front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build
  62 on more platforms.  In short: there were many internal
  63 changes, not many user-visible ones (apart form the
  64 new softwrap navigation).  The conversion to gnulib
  65 was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by
  66 David Ramsey.
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  70 2017 February 23
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  72 GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace
  73 the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things
  74 when multiline regexes with identical start and end are
  75 involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches,
  76 does replacements at the edges of a marked region right,
  77 no longer hides double-width characters at the head of
  78 softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at
  79 startup, and documents the ability to read a file from
  80 standard input.  Come tickle my ears.
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  84 2017 January 10
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  86 GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly
  87 manner again (bug was introduced in previous version),
  88 sets the preferred x position for vertical movements
  89 more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in
  90 softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your
  91 system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of
  92 the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches.
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  96 2016 December 28
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  98 GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs:
  99 your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain
 100 newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching
 101 between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes,
 102 makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a
 103 Linux console, is more resistant against malformations
 104 in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is
 105 typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL.
 106 Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an
 107 unlocked file just after saving a new one.  That's it.
 108 Tastes great with thick butter.
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 112 2016 December 12
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 114 GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature:
 115 the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default)
 116 a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in
 117 the current buffer.  Besides, this release fixes two bugs
 118 related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to
 119 use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on
 120 VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering
 121 during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override
 122 an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected
 123 region after an external spell check, and improves a few
 124 other tidbits.  If you should find any more bugs, please
 125 run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there.
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 129 2016 October 29
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 131 GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the
 132 ability to display line numbers beside the text.  This can
 133 be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line,
 134 or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with
 135 M-#.  The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the
 136 option 'set numbercolor'.  This release furthermore fixes
 137 some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict
 138 in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer
 139 as modified when the output of a command (^R ^X) has been
 140 read into it.  Come and check it out!
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 144 2016 September 1
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 146 GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to be
 147 selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys.
 148 Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny
 149 terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves
 150 the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces.  Not much,
 151 but it's time to get it out there.
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 153 With this release we return to GNU.  For just a little while
 154 we dreamt we were tigers.  But we are back in the herd,
 155 back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass.
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 159 2016 August 10
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 161 nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on
 162 a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very
 163 first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it
 164 holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits
 165 (when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug
 166 in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in
 167 a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid
 168 bytes when holding down both Alt keys.  Santé!
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 172 2016 July 28
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 174 nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the
 175 keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks
 176 of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which
 177 characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered
 178 word-forming.  Further, it provides feedback during Unicode
 179 input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which
 180 must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the
 181 window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after
 182 having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line
 183 anchor (^) just once per line.  There are also several tiny
 184 improvements in screen rendering and key handling.
 185 Come get your hair tousled!
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 189 2016 June 27
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 191 nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but also
 192 adds one little feature (the ability to use negative numbers
 193 with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom),
 194 includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes three tiny
 195 bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren't
 196 even worth mentioning).
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 200 2016 June 17
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 202 nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and
 203 some of them not so little.  It improves moving about in
 204 the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell
 205 checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with
 206 default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer,
 207 shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor
 208 is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if
 209 there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes
 210 when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename
 211 on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches,
 212 and allows to abort re-searches.  Among bunches of other
 213 things.  It is worth the trouble to upgrade.
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 215 And, with this release, we take leave of the herd...
 216 Bye!  And thanks for all the grass!
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