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-2019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> "Hagelslag"
+2024 May 1 - <b>GNU nano 8.0</b> <i>"Grus grus"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<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 <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<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>
+ <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>
+ the code is mapped to the xterm grey scale, giving access to<br>
+ fourteen levels of grey instead of just four.</li>
+<li>For easier access, <tt>M-"</tt> is bound to placing/removing an anchor,<br>
+ and <tt>M-'</tt> to jumping to the next anchor.</li>
+<li>Whenever an error occurs, the keystroke buffer is cleared, thus<br>
+ stopping the execution of a macro or a string bind.</li>
+<li>The mousewheel scrolls the viewport instead of moving the cursor.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+
+2023 January 18 - <b>GNU nano 7.2</b> <i>"Boer doe mij 't hekke lös!"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li><Shift+Insert> is prevented from pasting in view mode.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2022 December 14 - <b>GNU nano 7.1</b> <i>"And the devices shall be made of wood"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>When <tt>--autoindent</tt> and <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> are combined, pressing<br>
+ <Enter> at a specific position no longer eats characters.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2022 November 15 - <b>GNU nano 7.0</b> <i>"Una existencia simple bajo el sol"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>String binds may contain bindable function names between braces.<br>
+ For example, to move the current line down to after the next one:<br>
+ <tt>bind ^D "{cut}{down}{paste}{up}" main</tt>. Of course, braced function<br>
+ names may be mixed with literal text. If an existing string bind<br>
+ contains a literal <tt>{</tt>, replace it with <tt>{{}</tt>.</li>
+<li>Unicode codes can be entered (via <tt>M-V</tt>) without leading zeroes,<br>
+ by finishing short codes with <Space> or <Enter>.</li>
+<li>Word completion (<tt>^]</tt>) looks for candidates in all open buffers.</li>
+<li>No regular expression matches the final empty line any more.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+
+2022 August 2 - <b>GNU nano 6.4</b> <i>"Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The file browser does not crash when moving up to the root folder.</li>
+<li>Softwrapping very long lines is done more efficiently.</li>
+<li>Invoking the formatter does not blink the screen.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2022 April 28 - <b>GNU nano 6.3</b> <i>"Wat zullen we drinken? Wat een dorst!"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>For multiline regexes, text is now colored as soon as a start match<br>
+ is found, also when there is no end match at all.</li>
+<li>The colorizing of any line is stopped after two thousand bytes,<br>
+ to avoid frustrating delays.</li>
+<li>When environment variable <tt>NO_COLOR</tt> is set, the two default colors<br>
+ (yellow for the spotlight, red for error messages) are suppressed<br>
+ when no interface colors are specified in a nanorc file.</li>
+<li>Full justification and piping the whole buffer through a command<br>
+ now keep the cursor at the same line number.</li>
+<li>Utility <tt>xsel</tt> can be used to copy a marked region to the system's<br>
+ clipboard. See <tt>doc/sample.nanorc</tt> for an example.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2022 February 18 - <b>GNU nano 6.2</b> <i>"Kamperfoelie"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The file browser clears the prompt bar also when using <tt>--minibar</tt>.</li>
+<li>Linting now works also with a newer 'pyflakes'.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2022 February 9 - <b>GNU nano 6.1</b> <i>"Rețelele de socializare sunt ca un frigider"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The behavior of <tt>^K</tt> at a prompt has been enhanced: when there<br>
+ is text after the cursor, just this text is erased. (In the usual<br>
+ situation, however, when the cursor is at the end of the answer,<br>
+ the behavior is as before: the whole answer is erased.)</li>
+<li>At a prompt, <tt>M-6</tt> copies the current answer into the cutbuffer.</li>
+<li>Large external pastes into nano are handled more quickly.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2021 December 15 - <b>GNU nano 6.0</b> <i>"Humor heeft ook zijn leuke kanten"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>Option <tt>--zero</tt> hides the title bar, status bar and help lines, and<br>
+ uses all rows of the terminal as editing area. The title bar and<br>
+ status bar can be toggled with <tt>M-Z</tt>.</li>
+<li>Colors can now be specified also as three-digit hexadecimal numbers,<br>
+ in the format <tt>#rgb</tt>. This picks from the 216 index colors (that most<br>
+ terminals know) the color that is nearest to the given values.</li>
+<li>For users who dislike numbers, there are fourteen new color names:<br>
+ rosy, beet, plum, sea, sky, slate, teal, sage, brown, ocher, sand,<br>
+ tawny, brick, and crimson.</li>
+<li>Suspension is enabled by default, invokable with <tt>^T^Z</tt>. The options<br>
+ <tt>-z</tt>, <tt>--suspendable</tt>, and 'set suspendable' are obsolete and ignored.<br>
+ (In case you want to be able to suspend nano with a single keystroke,<br>
+ you can put 'bind ^Z suspend main' in your nanorc.)</li>
+<li>When automatic hard-wrapping is in effect, pasting just a few words<br>
+ (without a line break) will now hard-wrap the line when needed.</li>
+<li>Toggling Append or Prepend clears the current filename.</li>
+<li>The word count as shown by <tt>M-D</tt> is now affected by option --wordbounds;<br>
+ with it, nano counts words as 'wc' does; without it (the new default),<br>
+ words are counted in a more human way: seeing punctuation as space.</li>
+<li>The YAML syntax file is now actually included in the tarball.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+
+2021 October 6 - <b>GNU nano 5.9</b> <i>"El manicomio ha decidido: mañana sol!"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The extension of a filename is added to the name of a corresponding<br>
+ temporary file, so that spell checking a C file, for example, will check<br>
+ only the comments and strings (when using 'aspell').</li>
+<li>The process number is added to the name of an emergency save file,<br>
+ so that when multiple nanos die they will not fight over a filename.</li>
+<li>Undoing a cutting operation will restore an anchor that was located<br>
+ in the cut area to its original line.</li>
+<li>When using <tt>--locking</tt>, saving a new buffer will create a lock file.</li>
+<li>Syntax highlighting for YAML files has been added.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2021 June 15 - <b>GNU nano 5.8</b> <i>"Why is it necessary to be special?"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>After a search, the spotlighting is dropped after 1.5 seconds (0.8<br>
+ seconds with <tt>--quick</tt>) to avoid the idea that the text is selected.</li>
+<li>A <tt>+</tt> and a space before a filename on the command line will put<br>
+ the cursor at the end of the corresponding buffer.</li>
+<li>Linter messages no longer include filename and line/column numbers.</li>
+<li>Color name "grey" or "gray" can be used instead of "lightblack".</li>
+<li>The color of the minibar can be chosen with 'set minicolor'.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2021 April 29 - <b>GNU nano 5.7</b> <i>"Toți ceilalți arau câmpurile"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>The output of <tt>--constantshow</tt> (without <tt>--minibar</tt>) is more stable.</li>
+<li>When opening multiple buffers and there is an error message, this<br>
+ message is shown again upon first switch to the relevant buffer.</li>
+<li>The position and size of the indicator now follow actual lines,<br>
+ instead of visual lines when in softwrap mode, meaning that the<br>
+ size of the indicator can change when scrolling in softwrap mode.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2021 March 3 - <b>GNU nano 5.6.1</b> <i>"Geelgors"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>Search matches are properly colorized in softwrap mode too.</li>
+<li>Option 'highlightcolor' has been renamed to 'spotlightcolor'.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2021 February 24 - <b>GNU nano 5.6</b> <i>"Wielewaal"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>A search match gets highlighted (in black on yellow by default),<br>
+ in addition to placing the cursor at the start of the match.<br>
+ The color combination can be changed with 'set highlightcolor'.<br>
+ By default the cursor is hidden until the next keystroke, but<br>
+ it can be forced on with <tt>--showcursor</tt> / 'set showcursor'.</li>
+<li>Option <tt>--markmatch</tt> / 'set markmatch' has been removed.</li>
+<li>Cursor position and character code are displayed in the minibar<br>
+ only when option <tt>--constantshow</tt> / 'set constantshow' is used,<br>
+ and their display can be toggled with <tt>M-C</tt>.</li>
+<li>The state flags are displayed in the minibar only when option<br>
+ <tt>--stateflags</tt> / 'set stateflags' is used.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2021 January 14 - <b>GNU nano 5.5</b> <i>"Rebecca"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>Option 'set minibar' makes nano suppress the title bar and instead<br>
+ show a bar with basic editing information at the bottom: file name<br>
+ (plus an asterisk when the buffer is modified), the cursor position<br>
+ (line,column), the character under the cursor (U+xxxx), the flags<br>
+ that <tt>--stateflags</tt> normally shows, plus the percentage of the buffer<br>
+ that is above the cursor.</li>
+<li>With 'set promptcolor' the color combination of the prompt bar can<br>
+ be changed, to allow contrasting it with the mini bar (which always<br>
+ has the same color as the title bar).</li>
+<li>Option 'set markmatch' highlights the result of a successful search<br>
+ by putting the mark at the end of the match, making the match more<br>
+ visible. It also suppresses the cursor until the next keystroke.<br>
+ (If you dislike the hiding of the cursor, use 'set showcursor'.)</li>
+<li>The bindable toggle 'nowrap' has been renamed to 'breaklonglines',<br>
+ to match the corresponding option, like for all other toggles.</li>
+<li>Support for Slang has been removed.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 December 2 - <b>GNU nano 5.4</b> <i>"Terre des hommes"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>Moving the cursor now skips over combining characters (and<br>
+ other zero-width characters). Deleting a character deletes<br>
+ also any succeeding zero-width characters, but backspacing<br>
+ deletes just one character at a time.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 October 7 - <b>GNU nano 5.3</b> <i>"Revolution!"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>Option 'set stateflags' makes nano show the state of auto-indenting,<br>
+ the mark, hard-wrapping, macro recording, and soft-wrapping in the<br>
+ title bar. The flags take the place of "Modified", and a modified<br>
+ buffer is instead indicated by an asterisk (*) after its name.</li>
+<li>Nano no longer by default tries using libmagic to determine the type<br>
+ of a file (when neither filename nor first line gave a clue), because<br>
+ in most cases it is a waste of time. It requires using the option<br>
+ <tt>--magic</tt> or <tt>-!</tt> or 'set magic' to make nano try libmagic.</li>
+<li>The color of the indicator can be changed with 'set scrollercolor'.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 August 24 - <b>GNU nano 5.2</b> <i>"Ranrapalca"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>Making certain replacements after a large paste does not crash.</li>
+<li>Hitting a toggle at the Search prompt does not clear the answer.</li>
+<li>Using <tt>--positionlog</tt> does not complain at the first start.</li>
+<li>A macro containing a Search command will not sometimes fail.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 August 12 - <b>GNU nano 5.1</b> <i>"Cantabria"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li><tt>M-Bsp</tt> (Alt+Backspace) deletes a word backwards, like in Bash.</li>
+<li><tt>M-[</tt> has become bindable. (Be careful, though: as it is the<br>
+ starting combination of many escape sequences, avoid gluing<br>
+ it together with other keystrokes, like in a macro.)</li>
+<li>With <tt>--indicator</tt> and <tt>--softwrap</tt>, the first keystroke in an<br>
+ empty buffer does not crash.</li>
+<li>Invoking the formatter while text is marked does not crash.</li>
+<li>In UTF-8 locales, an anchor is shown as a diamond.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 July 29 - <b>GNU nano 5.0</b> <i>"Among the fields of barley"</i>
+<br>
+<table><tr><td><ul>
+<li>With <tt>--indicator</tt> (or <tt>-q</tt> or 'set indicator') nano will show a kind<br>
+ of scrollbar on the righthand side of the screen to indicate where<br>
+ in the buffer the viewport is located and how much it covers.</li>
+<li>With <Alt+Insert> any line can be "tagged" with an anchor, and<br>
+ <Alt+PageUp> and <Alt+PageDown> will jump to the nearest anchor.<br>
+ When using line numbers, an anchor is shown as "+" in the margin.</li>
+<li>The Execute Command prompt is now directly accessible from the<br>
+ main menu (with <tt>^T</tt>, replacing the Spell Checker). The Linter,<br>
+ Formatter, Spell Checker, Full Justification, Suspension, and<br>
+ Cut-Till-End functions are available in this menu too.</li>
+<li>On terminals that support at least 256 colors, nine new color<br>
+ names are available: pink, purple, mauve, lagoon, mint, lime,<br>
+ peach, orange, and latte. These do not have lighter versions.</li>
+<li>For the color names red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta,<br>
+ white, and black, the prefix 'light' gives a brighter color.<br>
+ Prefix 'bright' is deprecated, as it means both bold AND light.</li>
+<li>All color names can be preceded with "bold," and/or "italic,"<br>
+ (in that order) to get a bold and/or italic typeface.</li>
+<li>With <tt>--bookstyle</tt> (or <tt>-O</tt> or 'set bookstyle') nano considers any<br>
+ line that begins with whitespace as the start of a paragraph.</li>
+<li>Refreshing the screen with <tt>^L</tt> now works in every menu.</li>
+<li>In the main menu, <tt>^L</tt> also centers the line with the cursor.</li>
+<li>Toggling the help lines with <tt>M-X</tt> now works in all menus except<br>
+ in the help viewer and the linter.</li>
+<li>At a filename prompt, the first <Tab> lists the possibilities,<br>
+ and these are listed near the bottom instead of near the top.</li>
+<li>Bindable function 'curpos' has been renamed to 'location'.</li>
+<li>Long option <tt>--tempfile</tt> has been renamed to <tt>--saveonexit</tt>.</li>
+<li>Short option <tt>-S</tt> is now a synonym of <tt>--softwrap</tt>.</li>
+<li>The New Buffer toggle (<tt>M-F</tt>) has become non-persistent. Options<br>
+ <tt>--multibuffer</tt> and 'set multibuffer' still make it default to on.</li>
+<li>Backup files will retain their group ownership (when possible).</li>
+<li>Data is synced to disk before "... lines written" is shown.</li>
+<li>The raw escape sequences for <tt>F13</tt> to <tt>F16</tt> are no longer recognized.</li>
+<li>Distro-specific syntaxes, and syntaxes of less common languages,<br>
+ have been moved down to subdirectory syntax/extra/. The affected<br>
+ distros and others may wish to move wanted syntaxes one level up.</li>
+<li>Syntaxes for Markdown, Haskell, and Ada were added.</li>
+</ul></td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 May 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.3</b> <i>"Almendras"</i>
+<br><br>
+<table><tr><td>
+ One more bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a crash when<br>
+ the terminal screen is resized while at a lock-file prompt.
+</td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 April 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.2</b> <i>"Mali Lošinj"</i>
+<br><br>
+<table><tr><td>
+ Another bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a likely crash<br>
+ after undoing an <Enter> at the end of leading whitespace.
+</td></tr></table>
+<br><br>
+
+2020 March 31 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.1</b> <i>"Sapperdeflap"</i>
+<br><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> <i>"die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"</i>
+<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> <i>"Jaška"</i>
+<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> <i>"Havikskruid"</i>
+<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> <i>"And don't you eat that yellow snow"</i>
+<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>
+ spelling 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> <i>"Košice"</i>
+<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> <i>"Hagelslag"</i>
+<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>
+<li><tt>M-6</tt> 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>
+
+2019 June 18 - <b>GNU nano 4.3</b> <i>"Musa Kart"</i>
+<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
<li>The ability to read from and write to a FIFO has been regained.</li>
+<li>Opening a file no longer triggers an inotify CLOSE_WRITE event.</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>
+
+2019 April 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.2</b> <i>"Tax the rich, pay the teachers"</i>
+<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>
+
+2019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> <i>"Qué corchos será eso?"</i>
+<br>
<table><tr><td><ul>
-<li>By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the</li>
+<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.<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>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>
+
+2019 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.0</b> <i>"Thy Rope of Sands"</i>
+<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>
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
(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!
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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