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  19 2017 January 10
  20
  21 GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly
  22 manner again (bug was introduced in previous version),
  23 sets the preferred x position for vertical movements
  24 more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in
  25 softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your
  26 system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of
  27 the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches.
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  31 2016 December 28
  32
  33 GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs:
  34 your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain
  35 newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching
  36 between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes,
  37 makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a
  38 Linux console, is more resistant against malformations
  39 in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is
  40 typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL.
  41 Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an
  42 unlocked file just after saving a new one.  That's it.
  43 Tastes great with thick butter.
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  47 2016 December 12
  48
  49 GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature:
  50 the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default)
  51 a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in
  52 the current buffer.  Besides, this release fixes two bugs
  53 related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to
  54 use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on
  55 VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering
  56 during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override
  57 an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected
  58 region after an external spell check, and improves a few
  59 other tidbits.  If you should find any more bugs, please
  60 run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there.
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  64 2016 October 29
  65
  66 GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the
  67 ability to display line numbers beside the text.  This can
  68 be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line,
  69 or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with
  70 M-#.  The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the
  71 option 'set numbercolor'.  This release furthermore fixes
  72 some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict
  73 in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer
  74 as modified when the output of a command (^R ^X) has been
  75 read into it.  Come and check it out!
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  79 2016 September 1
  80
  81 GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to be
  82 selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys.
  83 Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny
  84 terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves
  85 the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces.  Not much,
  86 but it's time to get it out there.
  87
  88 With this release we return to GNU.  For just a little while
  89 we dreamt we were tigers.  But we are back in the herd,
  90 back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass.
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  94 2016 August 10
  95
  96 nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on
  97 a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very
  98 first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it
  99 holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits
 100 (when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug
 101 in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in
 102 a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid
 103 bytes when holding down both Alt keys.  Santé!
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 107 2016 July 28
 108
 109 nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the
 110 keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks
 111 of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which
 112 characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered
 113 word-forming.  Further, it provides feedback during Unicode
 114 input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which
 115 must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the
 116 window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after
 117 having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line
 118 anchor (^) just once per line.  There are also several tiny
 119 improvements in screen rendering and key handling.
 120 Come get your hair tousled!
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 124 2016 June 27
 125
 126 nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but also
 127 adds one little feature (the ability to use negative numbers
 128 with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom),
 129 includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes three tiny
 130 bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren't
 131 even worth mentioning).
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 135 2016 June 17
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 137 nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and
 138 some of them not so little.  It improves moving about in
 139 the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell
 140 checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with
 141 default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer,
 142 shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor
 143 is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if
 144 there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes
 145 when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename
 146 on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches,
 147 and allows to abort re-searches.  Among bunches of other
 148 things.  It is worth the trouble to upgrade.
 149
 150 And, with this release, we take leave of the herd...
 151 Bye!  And thanks for all the grass!
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