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-The following improvements are available in nano version 2.6:
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- Trailing whitespace can be snipped from justified paragraphs.
- Better feedback when a file is unwritable or a directory inaccessible.
- Bindable functions for deleting a word to the left and to the right.
-- A bindable function for saving the current file without prompting for its name.
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- Commenting/uncommenting lines with a single keystroke (M-3).
- Resizing the window does not exit from help viewer nor file browser.
- On some terminals Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right jump to previous and next word.
- A steadier movement of the highlight in the file browser.
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-The following improvements and features are available in GNU nano version 2.4:
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-- The ability to give different colours to titlebar, statusbar and help lines.
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+- The ability to give different colors to title bar, status bar and help lines.
- Linter support, for automatically putting the cursor on syntax errors.
- Formatter support, for normalizing the layout of a text instead of the spelling.
-- The undo/redo system has reached a usable state and is enabled by default.
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+- The undo/redo system has reached a usable state and is enabled by default.
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- No longer finds "ghosts" of certain UTF-8 characters.
- Makes the mouse usable again for clicking on shortcuts.
-- Fixes several syntax colouring issues.
-- Adds more syntax highlighting examples (autoconf, changelogs, elisp, Go, guile, javascript,
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+- Fixes several syntax coloring issues.
+- Adds more syntax highlighting examples (Go, guile, javascript, json, PO files, texinfo, ...).
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-The following improvements and features are available in version 2.2:
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- Customizable key bindings.
- Abortable searching (^C after ^W).
- Partial undo/redo support [EXPERIMENTAL].
- Pager support (i.e. reading from stdin).
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- Warnings for unwritable files and for external modification since opening.
- "Soft" line wrapping (i.e. display of complete lines).
- More syntax highlighting examples (Fortran, objC, OCaml, Makefiles).
- Faster syntax highlighting for complicated regexes.
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-The following improvements and features are available in version 2.0:
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- UTF-8 support.
- Improved color syntax highlighting.
- Copy text without cutting it.
- Verbatim input mode.
-- Repeat last seach without confirmation (Meta-W).
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+- Repeat last seach (Meta-W).
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- Spell check/replace selected text only.
- Indent marked text.
- Move to beginning/end of paragraph.
- Search within the file browser.
-- Auto-conversion of mixed file format
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-The following new and changed features are available in version 1.2:
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+Improvements made in version 1.2:
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- More Pico compatible by default.
- Smooth scrolling (-S flag).
- Bracket matching (Meta-]).
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- Color syntax highlighting.
- Search and replace history editing.
- Customizable quoting string (-Q flag).
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- Append/prepend from write file menu.
- Write selected text to file (^O after ^^).
- Multiple file buffers (-F flag).
-- Mac/Dos/NoConvert file format (-M, -D, -N).
+- Support for Mac and DOS file format.
- Saved search/replace history (-H flag).
- Backup files (-B flag).
- Insert output of command (^X after ^R).
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-Version 1.0 of GNU nano had the following features:
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+Version 1.0 had the following features:
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- Autoconf support.
-- Truly free license (GNU GPL).
-- Goto-line# command without a flag.
-- Case-sensitive search function.
-- Interactive search and replace.
-- 2/3 - 1/8 size of Pico binary.
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+- Truly free license (GNU GPL).
+- Goto-line command without a flag.
+- Case-sensitive search function.
+- Interactive search and replace.
+- About half the size of the Pico binary.
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- Slang and ncurses support.
- Autoindent abillity.
-- Displayed tab width option.
-- Regular expression search and replace.
-- Toggles for command-line flags via Meta keys.
-- Tab completion when reading/writing files.
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+- Regular-expression search and replace.
+- Toggles for command-line flags via Meta keys.
+- Tab completion when reading/writing files.
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