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+
+2019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> "Hagelslag"
+<br><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>M-6 works again also when the cursor is at end of buffer.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br><br>
+
+2019 June 18 - <b>GNU nano 4.3</b> "Musa Kart"
+<br><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><br>
+
+2019 April 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.2</b> "Tax the rich, pay the teachers"
+<br><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><br>
+
+2019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> "Qué corchos será eso?"
+<br><br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the</li>
+ 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.<br>
+<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><br>
+
+2019 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.0</b> "Thy Rope of Sands"
+<br><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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+
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+2018 November 11
+
+GNU nano 3.2 "Het kromme hout" 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
+mode more obvious. It also adds a bindable 'zap' function
+for deleting a line or marked region without changing the
+cutbuffer, adds --zap to bind the <Del> and <Backspace>
+keys to the zap function when something is marked, and
+hard-binds <Alt+Del> to 'zap'. Furthermore, it shows the
+cursor also in the help viewer (when --showcursor is used),
+renames the bindable functions 'prevhistory' to 'older' and
+'nexthistory' to 'newer' (update your nanorcs when needed),
+reads the nanorc files also in restricted mode to allow
+customization by the user (if this should not be allowed,
+use --ignorercfiles in addition to --restricted), allows
+in view mode to open also other files (if this should not
+be allowed, use --restricted in addition to --view), makes
+resizes respect a relative --fill again, no longer binds
+F13...F15 by default, properly re-highlights a misspelled
+word after invoking help in the internal spell checker,
+and does not skip Unicode characters in string binds.
+
+
+
+2018 September 18
+
+GNU nano 3.1 "Je faisais des bonds comme ça!" 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,
+and does not allow to toggle to Replace in view mode.
+
+
+
+2018 September 9
+
+GNU nano 3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" 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
+word and <Ctrl+Shift+Delete> the preceding word, binds M-Q
+to 'findprevious' by default (the Tabs-to-Spaces toggle is
+placed on M-O, and the More-Space toggle is fully removed),
+makes an external spell check undoable, shows the correct
+number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple
+files, removes the 'formatter' command, removes the
+'searchagain' bindable function (M-W is now bound to
+'findnext' by default), moves the No-Convert toggle to the
+Insert menu, removes the Backup and New-Buffer toggles from
+the main menu (they remain in the Write-Out and Insert
+menus, respectively), is more precise in what it accepts as
+a rebindable key name, ignores any presses of <Esc> before
+a valid command keystroke, recognizes some more escape
+sequences for modified editing-pad keys, does not hide
+rcfile error messages on a Linux console, renames the
+bindable functions 'copytext' to 'copy' and 'uncut' to
+'paste', and avoids a possible hang during a Full-Justify.
+
+
+
+2018 June 2
+
+GNU nano 2.9.8 "Espresso" 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
+justify //-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding
+of a key to a string lacks a closing quote, gives feedback
+about the number of lines written also when prepending or
+appending, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter.
+
+
+
+2018 May 15
+
+GNU nano 2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" 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
+buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes, adds the
+until-now missing bindable function 'linenumbers', and
+renames the toggles 'constupdate' to 'constantshow' and
+'cuttoend' to 'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the
+corresponding options -- adjust your nanorc files soon.
+
+
+
+2018 April 27
+
+GNU nano 2.9.6 "Gomance" 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
+go always forward by default, no longer inserts a newline
+after an external spell check of a selected region, always
+accepts the English Y and N (and A) at a yes-no prompt in
+any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs.
+
+
+
+2018 March 29
+
+GNU nano 2.9.5 "Kiša pada" 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).
+This version further adds a new color name, "normal",
+which gives the default foreground or background color,
+which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous
+painting by earlier syntax regexes. Bug fixes include:
+a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted
+mode, the reading in of a new file being "undoable", a
+slight miswrapping of help texts when --linenumbers was
+used, and the shell syntax coloring the word "tar" in
+file names.
+
+
+
+2018 March 8
+
+GNU nano 2.9.4 "Isabel" 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,
+makes <Enter> at the bottom of the screen scroll just one
+row when --smooth is used, does not fail when redoing a
+file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any
+cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor
+cannot move. Further, it treats tabs fully the same as
+spaces when doing automatic hard-wrapping, allows syntax
+names to be unquoted, and removes two deprecated options
+and six deprecated bindable function names.
+
+
+
+2018 January 29
+
+GNU nano 2.9.3 "Córdoba" 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,
+adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line,
+recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals,
+no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible
+whitespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing
+replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named
+pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects
+a needed color change when a line contains a start match
+but not a corresponding end match any more. Plus some
+other small fry.
+
+
+
+2018 January 2
+
+GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" 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
+the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames
+the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will
+now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing
+(and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words
+to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes
+<Tab> and <Shift+Tab> indent and unindent a marked region,
+allows unindenting when not all lines are indented, lets a
+region marked with Shift persist when indenting/unindenting
+or commenting/uncommenting it, and in those cases excludes
+the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked
+(which makes for a more intuitive behavior).
+
+
+
+2017 November 27
+
+GNU nano 2.9.1 "Damyatta" 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
+strings, and does not forget when the cursor was last
+at line 1, column 1.
+
+
+
+2017 November 18
+
+GNU nano 2.9.0 "Eta" 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
+saves the current file), changes ^W to start always a
+forward search, shows the number of open buffers (when
+more than one) in the title bar, no longer asks to press
+Enter when there are errors in an rc file, retires the
+options '--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards',
+makes indenting and unindenting undoable, will look in
+$XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file and in $XDG_DATA_HOME
+for the history files, adds a history stack for executed
+commands (^R^X), does not overwrite the position-history
+file of another nano, and fixes a score of tiny bugs.
+
+
+
2017 August 27
GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are
GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" 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
+shows double-width characters as ">" and "<" when split
across two rows, moves the cursor more predictably (at
the cost of sometimes putting it on the second "half"
of a character), avoids creating lines that consist of
more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in
softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your
system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of
-the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches.
+the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches.
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