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-2024 may 1 - <b>GNU nano 8.0</b> <i>"Grus grus"</i>
+2024 May 1 - <b>GNU nano 8.0</b> <i>"Grus grus"</i>
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<li>By default <tt>^F</tt> is bound to starting a forward search, and <tt>^B</tt> to<br>
starting a backward search, while <tt>M-F</tt> and <tt>M-B</tt> repeat the search<br>
in the corresponding direction. (See the documentation if you<br>
want the old bindings back.)</li>
-<li>Command-line option --modernbindings (-/) makes <tt>^Q</tt> quit, <tt>^X</tt> cut,<br>
+<li>Command-line option <tt>--modernbindings</tt> (<tt>-/</tt>) makes <tt>^Q</tt> quit, <tt>^X</tt> cut,<br>
<tt>^C</tt> copy, <tt>^V</tt> paste, <tt>^Z</tt> undo, <tt>^Y</tt> redo, <tt>^O</tt> open a file, <tt>^W</tt> write a file,<br>
<tt>^R</tt> replace, <tt>^G</tt> find again, <tt>^D</tt> find again backwards, <tt>^A</tt> set the mark,<br>
<tt>^T</tt> jump to a line, <tt>^P</tt> show the position, and <tt>^E</tt> execute.</li>
-<li>Above modern bindings are activated also when the name of nano's<br>
- executable (or a symlink to it) starts with the letter "e".</li>
+<li>Above modern bindings are activated also when the name of<br>
+ nano's executable (or a symlink to it) starts with the letter "e".</li>
<li>To open a file at a certain line number, one can now use also<br>
- `nano filename:number`, besides `nano +number filename`.</li>
+ <tt>nano filename:number</tt>, besides <tt>nano +number filename</tt>.</li>
<li><Alt+Home> and <Alt+End> put the cursor on the first and last<br>
row in the viewport, while retaining the horizontal position.</li>
<li>When the three digits in an #RGB color code are all the same,<br>
2018 November 11
-GNU nano 3.2 "Het kromme hout" changes the default binding
+GNU nano 3.2 <i>"Het kromme hout"</i> changes the default binding
for the linter to M-B so that the spell checker (^T) can
always be used, and changes (when linting) the text in the
title bar and the color of the status bar to make linting
2018 September 18
-GNU nano 3.1 "Je faisais des bonds comme ça!" fixes a
+GNU nano 3.1 <i>"Je faisais des bonds comme ça!"</i> fixes a
misbinding of ^H on some terminals and some systems,
does not leave stray stuff after the prompt upon exit
when having suspended nano while using --constantshow,
2018 September 9
-GNU nano 3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the
+GNU nano 3.0 <i>"Water Flowing Underground"</i> speeds up the
reading of a file by seventy percent, roughly doubles the
speed of handling ASCII text, changes the way words at line
boundaries are deleted, makes <Ctrl+Delete> wipe the next
2018 June 2
-GNU nano 2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the
+GNU nano 2.9.8 <i>"Espresso"</i> brings the ability to filter the
buffer (or the marked region) through an external command
(^R^X and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is
better at detecting and maintaining paragraphs, is able to
2018 May 15
-GNU nano 2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option '--afterends'
+GNU nano 2.9.7 <i>"Hvide Sande"</i> adds the option '--afterends'
for making Ctrl+Right (the nextword function) stop at word
ends instead of beginnings, accepts multibyte letters for
the Yes/No/All answers, does emergency saves of changed
2018 April 27
-GNU nano 2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion,
+GNU nano 2.9.6 <i>"Gomance"</i> fixes a crash in word completion,
makes --enable-altrcname work again, improves the fluidity
of scrolling when using the touchpad, tweaks the syntaxes
for shell scripts and PO files, makes a replacing session
2018 March 29
-GNU nano 2.9.5 "Kiša pada" changes the way the Scroll-Up
+GNU nano 2.9.5 <i>"Kiša pada"</i> changes the way the Scroll-Up
and Scroll-Down commands work (M-- and M-+): instead of
keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now
keep the cursor in the same text position (if possible).
2018 March 8
-GNU nano 2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a string
+GNU nano 2.9.4 <i>"Isabel"</i> allows binding a key to a string
(any piece of text and/or commands), permits customizing
the color of error messages with 'set errorcolor', colors
those error messages by default in bright white on red,
2018 January 29
-GNU nano 2.9.3 "Córdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks
+GNU nano 2.9.3 <i>"Córdoba"</i> fixes a segfault with trimblanks
that could occur when a typed space caused the word after
it to be pushed to the next line. It further makes macros
work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences,
2018 January 2
-GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified
+GNU nano 2.9.2 <i>"Pussy Riot"</i> correctly displays the Modified
state when undoing/redoing (also when the file was saved
somewhere midway), improves the undoing of an automatic
linefeed at EOF, fixes a build issue on the BSDs, shows
2017 November 27
-GNU nano 2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where, when the mark
+GNU nano 2.9.1 <i>"Damyatta"</i> fixes a bug where, when the mark
is on, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked
region. This release further clears the "Modified" flag
when all edits are undone, adds or updates some magic
2017 November 18
-GNU nano 2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record and
+GNU nano 2.9.0 <i>"Eta"</i> introduces the ability to record and
replay keystrokes (M-: to start and stop recording, M-;
to play the macro back), makes ^Q and ^S do something
useful by default (^Q starts a backward search, and ^S
2017 August 27
-GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are
+GNU nano 2.8.7 <i>"Fragrance"</i> fixes a lockup when tabs are
wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting
more predictable by retaining relative indentations,
allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes
2017 July 21
-GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a new feature: the ability
+GNU nano 2.8.6 <i>"Kekulé"</i> offers a new feature: the ability
to do softwrapping between words -- at whitespace --
instead of always at the edge of the screen. This can
be activated with -a or --atblanks or 'set atblanks'
2017 June 25
-GNU nano 2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from
+GNU nano 2.8.5 <i>"Farouche"</i> avoids a crash when waking from
a suspension that was induced from the outside, allows
negative line and column numbers on the command line,
avoids some flickering when resizing the screen while
2017 May 21
-GNU nano 2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc
+GNU nano 2.8.4 <i>"Our Version of Events"</i> includes the nanorc
man page again.
2017 May 18
-GNU nano 2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight
+GNU nano 2.8.3 <i>"Hirsch"</i> fixes a misplacement of the spotlight
during interactive replacing, avoids build failures on AIX
and Solaris, fixes a crash on Solaris, speeds up backwards
searching, improves PHP syntax highlighting, and no longer
2017 May 4
-GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" adds another new feature: it makes
+GNU nano 2.8.2 <i>"Krats"</i> adds another new feature: it makes
the ^G help texts searchable with ^W. Apart from that,
it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle
of verbatim input, avoids an unlikely crash when used
2017 April 12
-GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS and
+GNU nano 2.8.1 <i>"Ellert"</i> fixes build failures on MacOS and
on musl, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when
double-width characters on row boundaries are involved,
shows double-width characters as ">" and "<" when split
2017 March 31
-GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in
+GNU nano 2.8.0 <i>"Axat"</i> makes it easier to move around in
softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from
visual row to visual row instead of jumping between
logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to
2017 February 23
-GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace
+GNU nano 2.7.5 <i>"Nijntje"</i> can properly search and replace
the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things
when multiline regexes with identical start and end are
involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches,
2017 January 10
-GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly
+GNU nano 2.7.4 <i>"Red dress"</i> undoes deletions in an orderly
manner again (bug was introduced in previous version),
sets the preferred x position for vertical movements
more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in
2016 December 28
-GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs:
+GNU nano 2.7.3 <i>"Ontbijtkoek"</i> wipes away a handful of bugs:
your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain
newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching
between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes,
2016 December 12
-GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature:
+GNU nano 2.7.2 <i>"Shemesh! Shemesh!"</i> brings another feature:
the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default)
a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in
the current buffer. Besides, this release fixes two bugs
2016 October 29
-GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the
+GNU nano 2.7.1 <i>"Leuven"</i> adds an often-asked-for feature: the
ability to display line numbers beside the text. This can
be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line,
or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with
2016 September 1
-GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to be
+GNU nano 2.7.0 <i>"Suni"</i> adds a new feature: allowing text to be
selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys.
Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny
terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves
2016 August 10
-nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on
+nano 2.6.3 <i>"Marika"</i> makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on
a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very
first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it
holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits
2016 July 28
-nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the
+nano 2.6.2 <i>"Le vent nous portera"</i> adds two new features: the
keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks
of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which
characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered
2016 June 27
-nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but also
+nano 2.6.1 <i>"Stampede"</i> is chiefly a translation update, but also
adds one little feature (the ability to use negative numbers
with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom),
includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes three tiny
2016 June 17
-nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and
+nano 2.6.0 <i>"Rubicon"</i> fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and
some of them not so little. It improves moving about in
the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell
checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with
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