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+2020 March 31 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.1</b> "Sapperdeflap"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td>
+ Two bugs introduced in version 4.9 are fixed: the cursor<br>
+ getting misplaced when undoing line cuts, and filtering<br>
+ of the whole buffer to a new buffer not working.
+</td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.9</b> "die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>When justifying a selection, the new paragraph and the<br>
+ succeeding one get the appropriate first-line indent.</li>
+<li>Trying to justify an empty selection does not crash.</li>
+<li>Redoing the insertion of an empty file does not crash.</li>
+<li>On the BSDs and macOS, <tt>^H</tt> has become rebindable again<br>
+ (in most terminal emulators, not on the console).</li>
+<li>DOS line endings in nanorc files are accepted.</li>
+<li>Option <tt>--suspend</tt> / 'set suspend' has been renamed to<br>
+ the more logical <tt>--suspendable</tt> / 'set suspendable'.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 February 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.8</b> "Jaška"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>When something is pasted into nano, auto-indentation is suppressed,<br>
+ and the paste can be undone as a whole with a single <tt>M-U</tt>.</li>
+<li>When a lock file is encountered during startup, pressing <tt>^C</tt>/Cancel<br>
+ quits nano. (Pressing 'No' just skips the file and continues.)</li>
+<li>Shift+Meta+letter key combos can be bound with 'bind Sh-M-letter'.<br>
+ Making any such binding dismisses the default behavior of ignoring<br>
+ Shift for all Meta+letter keystrokes.</li>
+<li>The configuration option <tt>--with-slang</tt> (to be avoided when possible)<br>
+ can now be used only together with <tt>--enable-tiny</tt>.</li>
+<li>A custom nanorc file can be specified on the command line, with<br>
+ <tt>-f filename</tt> or <tt>--rcfile=filename</tt>.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2019 December 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.7</b> "Havikskruid"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>A <Tab> will indent a marked region only when mark and cursor are<br>
+ on different lines.</li>
+<li>Two indentations (any mix of tabs and spaces) are considered the<br>
+ same when they look the same (that is: indent to the same level).</li>
+<li>When using <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> or <tt>^J</tt>, a line will never be broken in<br>
+ its leading whitespace or quoting.</li>
+<li>The keywords in nanorc files must be in lowercase.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2019 November 29 - <b>GNU nano 4.6</b> "And don't you eat that yellow snow"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The 'formatter' command has returned, bound by default to <tt>M-F</tt>.<br>
+ It allows running a syntax-specific command on the contents of<br>
+ the buffer.</li>
+<li><tt>^T</tt> will try to run 'hunspell' before 'spell', because it checks<br>
+ spellling for the locale's language and understands UTF-8.</li>
+<li>Multiple errors or warnings on startup will no longer slow nano<br>
+ down but will be indicated on the status bar with trailing dots.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2019 October 4 - <b>GNU nano 4.5</b> "Košice"
<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The new 'tabgives' command allows you to specify per syntax what<br>
+ the <Tab> key should produce: some spaces, a hard TAB, ...</li>
+<li>The output of <tt>--help</tt> is properly aligned again for all languages.</li>
+<li><Tab> will indent a marked region also when <tt>M-}</tt> has been rebound.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> "Hagelslag"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>At startup, the cursor can be put on the first or last occurrence<br>
+ of a string by preceding the filename with <tt>+/string</tt> or <tt>+?string</tt>.</li>
+<li>When automatic hard-wrapping occurs (<tt>--breaklonglines</tt>), any leading<br>
+ quoting characters will be automatically copied to the new line.</li>
+<li><tt>M-6</tt> works again also when the cursor is at end of buffer.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2019 June 18 - <b>GNU nano 4.3</b> "Musa Kart"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The ability to read from and write to a FIFO has been regained.</li>
+<li>Startup time is reduced by fully parsing a syntax only when needed.</li>
+<li>Asking for help (<tt>^G</tt>) when using <tt>--operatingdir</tt> does not crash.</li>
+<li>The reading of a huge or slow file can be stopped with <tt>^C</tt>.</li>
+<li>Cut, zap, and copy operations are undone separately when intermixed.</li>
+<li><tt>M-D</tt> reports the correct number of lines (zero for an empty buffer).</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2019 April 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.2</b> "Tax the rich, pay the teachers"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The integrated spell checker does not crash when 'spell' is missing.</li>
+<li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> works also when <tt>--ignorercfiles</tt> is used.</li>
+<li>Automatic hard-wrapping is more persistent in pushing words to the<br>
+ same overflow line.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> "Qué corchos será eso?"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the<br>
+ end of a buffer, to produce valid POSIX text files by default, but<br>
+ also to get back the easy adding of text at the bottom.</li>
+<li>The now unneeded option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) has been removed.</li>
+<li>Syntax files are read in alphabetical order when globbing, so that<br>
+ the precedence of syntaxes becomes predictable.</li>
+<li>In the C syntax, preprocessor directives are highlighted differently.</li>
+<li><tt>M-S</tt> now toggles soft wrapping, and <tt>M-N</tt> toggles line numbers.</li>
+<li>The jumpy-scrolling toggle has been removed.</li>
+<li>The legacy keystrokes <tt>^W^Y</tt> and <tt>^W^V</tt> are recognized again.</li>
+<li>Executing an external command is disallowed when in view mode.</li>
+<li>Problems with resizing during external or speller commands were fixed.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2019 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.0</b> "Thy Rope of Sands"
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped.</li>
+<li>Smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default.</li>
+<li>A newline character is no longer automatically added at end of buffer.</li>
+<li>The line below the title bar is by default part of the editing space.</li>
+<li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> (<tt>-b</tt>) turns automatic hard-wrapping back on.</li>
+<li>Option <tt>--jumpyscrolling</tt> (<tt>-j</tt>) gives the chunky, half-screen scrolling.</li>
+<li>Option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) brings back the automatic newline at EOF.</li>
+<li>Option <tt>--emptyline</tt> (<tt>-e</tt>) leaves the line below the title bar unused.</li>
+<li><Alt+Up> and <Alt+Down> now do a linewise scroll instead of a findnext.</li>
+<li>Any number of justifications can be undone (like all other operations).</li>
+<li>When marked text is justified, it becomes a single, separate paragraph.</li>
+<li>Option <tt>--guidestripe=<number></tt> draws a vertical bar at the given column.</li>
+<li>Option <tt>--fill=<number></tt> no longer turns on automatic hard-wrapping.</li>
+<li>When a line continues offscreen, it now ends with a highlighted ">".</li>
+<li>The halves of a split two-column character are shown as "[" and "]".</li>
+<li>A line now scrolls horizontally one column earlier.</li>
+<li>The bindable functions 'cutwordleft' and 'cutwordright' were renamed<br>
+ to 'chopwordleft' and 'chopwordright' as they don't use the cutbuffer.</li>
+<li>The paragraph-jumping functions were moved from Search to Go-to-Line.</li>
+<li>Option <tt>--rebinddelete</tt> is able to compensate for more misbindings.</li>
+<li>Options <tt>--morespace</tt> and <tt>--smooth</tt> are obsolete and thus ignored.</li>
+<li>The <tt>--disable-wrapping-as-root</tt> configure option was removed.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
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2018 November 11
(when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug
in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in
a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid
-bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Santé!
+bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Santé!
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