Overview

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The 2.4 release of GNU nano is another step forward in usability.

The following improvements and features are available in version 2.4:
  • The ability to give different colours to titlebar, statusbar and help lines.
  • Linter support, for automatically putting the cursor on syntax errors.
  • Formatter support, for normalizing the layout of a text instead of the spelling.
  • The undo/redo system has reached a usable state and is enabled by default.

  • No longer finds "ghosts" of certain UTF-8 characters.
  • Makes the mouse usable again for clicking on shortcuts.
  • Fixes several syntax colouring issues.
  • Adds more syntax highlighting examples (autoconf, changelogs, elisp, Go, guile, javascript, json, PO files, postgresql, texinfo).