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-2023 January 18 - <b>GNU nano 7.2</b> "Boer doe mij 't hekke lös!"
+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> "And the devices shall be made of wood"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2022 November 15 - <b>GNU nano 7.0</b> "Una existencia simple bajo el sol"
+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>
<br><br>
-2022 August 2 - <b>GNU nano 6.4</b> "Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2022 April 28 - <b>GNU nano 6.3</b> "Wat zullen we drinken? Wat een dorst!"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2022 February 18 - <b>GNU nano 6.2</b> "Kamperfoelie"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2022 February 9 - <b>GNU nano 6.1</b> "Rețelele de socializare sunt ca un frigider"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2021 December 15 - <b>GNU nano 6.0</b> "Humor heeft ook zijn leuke kanten"
+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>
<br><br>
-2021 October 6 - <b>GNU nano 5.9</b> "El manicomio ha decidido: mañana sol!"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2021 June 15 - <b>GNU nano 5.8</b> "Why is it necessary to be special?"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2021 April 29 - <b>GNU nano 5.7</b> "Toți ceilalți arau câmpurile"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2021 March 3 - <b>GNU nano 5.6.1</b> "Geelgors"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2021 February 24 - <b>GNU nano 5.6</b> "Wielewaal"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2021 January 14 - <b>GNU nano 5.5</b> "Rebecca"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 December 2 - <b>GNU nano 5.4</b> "Terre des hommes"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 October 7 - <b>GNU nano 5.3</b> "Revolution!"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 August 24 - <b>GNU nano 5.2</b> "Ranrapalca"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 August 12 - <b>GNU nano 5.1</b> "Cantabria"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 July 29 - <b>GNU nano 5.0</b> "Among the fields of barley"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 May 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.3</b> "Almendras"
+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>
</td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 April 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.2</b> "Mali Lošinj"
+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>
</td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 March 31 - <b>GNU nano 4.9.1</b> "Sapperdeflap"
+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>
</td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.9</b> "die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2020 February 7 - <b>GNU nano 4.8</b> "Jaška"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 December 23 - <b>GNU nano 4.7</b> "Havikskruid"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 November 29 - <b>GNU nano 4.6</b> "And don't you eat that yellow snow"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 October 4 - <b>GNU nano 4.5</b> "Košice"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> "Hagelslag"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 June 18 - <b>GNU nano 4.3</b> "Musa Kart"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 April 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.2</b> "Tax the rich, pay the teachers"
+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>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> "Qué corchos será eso?"
+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<br>
</ul></td></tr></table>
<br><br>
-2019 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.0</b> "Thy Rope of Sands"
+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>
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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