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+2020 December 2 - GNU nano 5.4 "Terre des hommes" +
+
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  • Moving the cursor now skips over combining characters (and other
    + zero-width characters). Deleting a character deletes also any
    + succeeding zero-width characters, but backspacing deletes just
    + one character at a time.
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+

+ +2020 October 7 - GNU nano 5.3 "Revolution!" +
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  • Option 'set stateflags' makes nano show the state of auto-indenting,
    + the mark, hard-wrapping, macro recording, and soft-wrapping in the
    + title bar. The flags take the place of "Modified", and a modified
    + buffer is instead indicated by an asterisk (*) after its name.
    • +
  • Nano no longer by default tries using libmagic to determine the type
    + of a file (when neither filename nor first line gave a clue), because
    + in most cases it is a waste of time. It requires using the option
    + --magic or -! or 'set magic' to make nano try libmagic.
    • +
  • The color of the indicator can be changed with 'set scrollercolor'.
    • +
+

+ +2020 August 24 - GNU nano 5.2 "Ranrapalca" +
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  • Making certain replacements after a large paste does not crash.
    • +
  • Hitting a toggle at the Search prompt does not clear the answer.
    • +
  • Using --positionlog does not complain at the first start.
    • +
  • A macro containing a Search command will not sometimes fail.
    • +
+

+ +2020 August 12 - GNU nano 5.1 "Cantabria" +
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  • M-Bsp (Alt+Backspace) deletes a word backwards, like in Bash.
    • +
  • M-[ has become bindable. (Be careful, though: as it is the
    + starting combination of many escape sequences, avoid gluing
    + it together with other keystrokes, like in a macro.)
    • +
  • With --indicator and --softwrap, the first keystroke in an
    + empty buffer does not crash.
    • +
  • Invoking the formatter while text is marked does not crash.
    • +
  • In UTF-8 locales, an anchor is shown as a diamond.
    • +
+

+ 2020 July 29 - GNU nano 5.0 "Among the fields of barley"
    @@ -42,7 +91,7 @@ line that begins with whitespace as the start of a paragraph.
  • Refreshing the screen with ^L now works in every menu.
  • In the main menu, ^L also centers the line with the cursor.
    • -
  • Toggling the help lines with M-X now works in all menus except
    +
  • Toggling the help lines with M-X now works in all menus except
    in the help viewer and the linter.
  • At a filename prompt, the first <Tab> lists the possibilities,
    and these are listed near the bottom instead of near the top.
    • @@ -50,7 +99,7 @@
  • Long option --tempfile has been renamed to --saveonexit.
  • Short option -S is now a synonym of --softwrap.
  • The New Buffer toggle (M-F) has become non-persistent. Options
    - --multibuffer and 'set multibuffer' still make it default to on.
    • + --multibuffer and 'set multibuffer' still make it default to on.
  • Backup files will retain their group ownership (when possible).
  • Data is synced to disk before "... lines written" is shown.
  • The raw escape sequences for F13 to F16 are no longer recognized.