+
+
+2020 April 7 - GNU nano 4.9.2 "Mali Lošinj"
+
+
+ Another bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a likely crash
+ after undoing an at the end of leading whitespace.
+ |
+
+
+2020 March 31 - GNU nano 4.9.1 "Sapperdeflap"
+
+
+ Two bugs introduced in version 4.9 are fixed: the cursor
+ getting misplaced when undoing line cuts, and filtering
+ of the whole buffer to a new buffer not working.
+ |
+
+
+2020 March 24 - GNU nano 4.9 "die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"
+
+
+- When justifying a selection, the new paragraph and the
+ succeeding one get the appropriate first-line indent.
+- Trying to justify an empty selection does not crash.
+- Redoing the insertion of an empty file does not crash.
+- On the BSDs and macOS, ^H has become rebindable again
+ (in most terminal emulators, not on the console).
+- DOS line endings in nanorc files are accepted.
+- Option --suspend / 'set suspend' has been renamed to
+ the more logical --suspendable / 'set suspendable'.
+ |
+
+
+2020 February 7 - GNU nano 4.8 "Jaška"
+
+
+- When something is pasted into nano, auto-indentation is suppressed,
+ and the paste can be undone as a whole with a single M-U.
+- When a lock file is encountered during startup, pressing ^C/Cancel
+ quits nano. (Pressing 'No' just skips the file and continues.)
+- Shift+Meta+letter key combos can be bound with 'bind Sh-M-letter'.
+ Making any such binding dismisses the default behavior of ignoring
+ Shift for all Meta+letter keystrokes.
+- The configuration option --with-slang (to be avoided when possible)
+ can now be used only together with --enable-tiny.
+- A custom nanorc file can be specified on the command line, with
+ -f filename or --rcfile=filename.
+ |
+
+
+2019 December 23 - GNU nano 4.7 "Havikskruid"
+
+
+- A <Tab> will indent a marked region only when mark and cursor are
+ on different lines.
+- Two indentations (any mix of tabs and spaces) are considered the
+ same when they look the same (that is: indent to the same level).
+- When using --breaklonglines or ^J, a line will never be broken in
+ its leading whitespace or quoting.
+- The keywords in nanorc files must be in lowercase.
+ |
+
+
+2019 November 29 - GNU nano 4.6 "And don't you eat that yellow snow"
+
+- The 'formatter' command has returned, bound by default to M-F.
+ It allows running a syntax-specific command on the contents of
+ the buffer.
+- ^T will try to run 'hunspell' before 'spell', because it checks
+ spellling for the locale's language and understands UTF-8.
+- Multiple errors or warnings on startup will no longer slow nano
+ down but will be indicated on the status bar with trailing dots.
+ |
+
+
+2019 October 4 - GNU nano 4.5 "Košice"
+
+
+- The new 'tabgives' command allows you to specify per syntax what
+ the <Tab> key should produce: some spaces, a hard TAB, ...
+- The output of --help is properly aligned again for all languages.
+- <Tab> will indent a marked region also when M-} has been rebound.
+ |
+
+
+2019 August 25 - GNU nano 4.4 "Hagelslag"
+
+
+- At startup, the cursor can be put on the first or last occurrence
+ of a string by preceding the filename with +/string or +?string.
+- When automatic hard-wrapping occurs (--breaklonglines), any leading
+ quoting characters will be automatically copied to the new line.
+- M-6 works again also when the cursor is at end of buffer.
+ |
+
+
+2019 June 18 - GNU nano 4.3 "Musa Kart"
+
+
+- The ability to read from and write to a FIFO has been regained.
+- Startup time is reduced by fully parsing a syntax only when needed.
+- Asking for help (^G) when using --operatingdir does not crash.
+- The reading of a huge or slow file can be stopped with ^C.
+- Cut, zap, and copy operations are undone separately when intermixed.
+- M-D reports the correct number of lines (zero for an empty buffer).
+ |
+
+
+2019 April 24 - GNU nano 4.2 "Tax the rich, pay the teachers"
+
+
+- The integrated spell checker does not crash when 'spell' is missing.
+- Option --breaklonglines works also when --ignorercfiles is used.
+- Automatic hard-wrapping is more persistent in pushing words to the
+ same overflow line.
+ |
+
+
+2019 April 15 - GNU nano 4.1 "Qué corchos será eso?"
+
+
+- By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the
+ end of a buffer, to produce valid POSIX text files by default, but
+ also to get back the easy adding of text at the bottom.
+- The now unneeded option --finalnewline (-f) has been removed.
+- Syntax files are read in alphabetical order when globbing, so that
+ the precedence of syntaxes becomes predictable.
+- In the C syntax, preprocessor directives are highlighted differently.
+- M-S now toggles soft wrapping, and M-N toggles line numbers.
+- The jumpy-scrolling toggle has been removed.
+- The legacy keystrokes ^W^Y and ^W^V are recognized again.
+- Executing an external command is disallowed when in view mode.
+- Problems with resizing during external or speller commands were fixed.
+ |
+
+
+2019 March 24 - GNU nano 4.0 "Thy Rope of Sands"
+
+
+- An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped.
+- Smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default.
+- A newline character is no longer automatically added at end of buffer.
+- The line below the title bar is by default part of the editing space.
+- Option --breaklonglines (-b) turns automatic hard-wrapping back on.
+- Option --jumpyscrolling (-j) gives the chunky, half-screen scrolling.
+- Option --finalnewline (-f) brings back the automatic newline at EOF.
+- Option --emptyline (-e) leaves the line below the title bar unused.
+- <Alt+Up> and <Alt+Down> now do a linewise scroll instead of a findnext.
+- Any number of justifications can be undone (like all other operations).
+- When marked text is justified, it becomes a single, separate paragraph.
+- Option --guidestripe=<number> draws a vertical bar at the given column.
+- Option --fill=<number> no longer turns on automatic hard-wrapping.
+- When a line continues offscreen, it now ends with a highlighted ">".
+- The halves of a split two-column character are shown as "[" and "]".
+- A line now scrolls horizontally one column earlier.
+- The bindable functions 'cutwordleft' and 'cutwordright' were renamed
+ to 'chopwordleft' and 'chopwordright' as they don't use the cutbuffer.
+- The paragraph-jumping functions were moved from Search to Go-to-Line.
+- Option --rebinddelete is able to compensate for more misbindings.
+- Options --morespace and --smooth are obsolete and thus ignored.
+- The --disable-wrapping-as-root configure option was removed.
+ |
+
+
+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
+wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting
+more predictable by retaining relative indentations,
+allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes
+in Python to not be followed by a character, does not
+scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds
+Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and
+fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping
+and boundary-crossing tabs. Enjoy.
+
+
+
2017 July 21
-GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a new feature: the ability
+GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekulé" 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'
@@ -78,7 +464,7 @@ translation updates for fifteen languages.
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
@@ -132,7 +518,7 @@ sets the preferred x position for vertical movements
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.
@@ -208,7 +594,7 @@ 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!
@@ -263,12 +649,8 @@ Bye! And thanks for all the grass!
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