+
+
+2023 January 18 - GNU nano 7.2 "Boer doe mij 't hekke lös!"
+
+
+- <Shift+Insert> is prevented from pasting in view mode.
+ |
+
+
+2022 December 14 - GNU nano 7.1 "And the devices shall be made of wood"
+
+- When --autoindent and --breaklonglines are combined, pressing
+ <Enter> at a specific position no longer eats characters.
+ |
+
-2019 March 24 - GNU nano 4.0 "Thy Rope of Sands"
+2022 November 15 - GNU nano 7.0 "Una existencia simple bajo el sol"
-
- - 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.
- - and 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= draws a vertical bar at the given column.
- - Option --fill= no longer turns on automatic hard-wrapping.
- - When a line continues offscreen, it now ends with a highlighted ">".
- - The halfs 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.
-
+
+- String binds may contain bindable function names between braces.
+ For example, to move the current line down to after the next one:
+ bind ^D "{cut}{down}{paste}{up}" main. Of course, braced function
+ names may be mixed with literal text. If an existing string bind
+ contains a literal {, replace it with {{}.
+- Unicode codes can be entered (via M-V) without leading zeroes,
+ by finishing short codes with <Space> or <Enter>.
+- Word completion (^]) looks for candidates in all open buffers.
+- No regular expression matches the final empty line any more.
+ |
+
+
+
+2022 August 2 - GNU nano 6.4 "Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser"
+
+- The file browser does not crash when moving up to the root folder.
+- Softwrapping very long lines is done more efficiently.
+- Invoking the formatter does not blink the screen.
+ |
+
+
+2022 April 28 - GNU nano 6.3 "Wat zullen we drinken? Wat een dorst!"
+
+
+- For multiline regexes, text is now colored as soon as a start match
+ is found, also when there is no end match at all.
+- The colorizing of any line is stopped after two thousand bytes,
+ to avoid frustrating delays.
+- When environment variable NO_COLOR is set, the two default colors
+ (yellow for the spotlight, red for error messages) are suppressed
+ when no interface colors are specified in a nanorc file.
+- Full justification and piping the whole buffer through a command
+ now keep the cursor at the same line number.
+- Utility xsel can be used to copy a marked region to the system's
+ clipboard. See doc/sample.nanorc for an example.
+ |
+
+
+2022 February 18 - GNU nano 6.2 "Kamperfoelie"
+
+
+- The file browser clears the prompt bar also when using --minibar.
+- Linting now works also with a newer 'pyflakes'.
+ |
+
+
+2022 February 9 - GNU nano 6.1 "Rețelele de socializare sunt ca un frigider"
+
+
+- The behavior of ^K at a prompt has been enhanced: when there
+ is text after the cursor, just this text is erased. (In the usual
+ situation, however, when the cursor is at the end of the answer,
+ the behavior is as before: the whole answer is erased.)
+- At a prompt, M-6 copies the current answer into the cutbuffer.
+- Large external pastes into nano are handled more quickly.
+ |
+
+
+2021 December 15 - GNU nano 6.0 "Humor heeft ook zijn leuke kanten"
+
+
+- Option --zero hides the title bar, status bar and help lines, and
+ uses all rows of the terminal as editing area. The title bar and
+ status bar can be toggled with M-Z.
+- Colors can now be specified also as three-digit hexadecimal numbers,
+ in the format #rgb. This picks from the 216 index colors (that most
+ terminals know) the color that is nearest to the given values.
+- For users who dislike numbers, there are fourteen new color names:
+ rosy, beet, plum, sea, sky, slate, teal, sage, brown, ocher, sand,
+ tawny, brick, and crimson.
+- Suspension is enabled by default, invokable with ^T^Z. The options
+ -z, --suspendable, and 'set suspendable' are obsolete and ignored.
+ (In case you want to be able to suspend nano with a single keystroke,
+ you can put 'bind ^Z suspend main' in your nanorc.)
+- When automatic hard-wrapping is in effect, pasting just a few words
+ (without a line break) will now hard-wrap the line when needed.
+- Toggling Append or Prepend clears the current filename.
+- The word count as shown by M-D is now affected by option --wordbounds;
+ with it, nano counts words as 'wc' does; without it (the new default),
+ words are counted in a more human way: seeing punctuation as space.
+- The YAML syntax file is now actually included in the tarball.
+ |
+
+
+
+2021 October 6 - GNU nano 5.9 "El manicomio ha decidido: mañana sol!"
+
+
+- The extension of a filename is added to the name of a corresponding
+ temporary file, so that spell checking a C file, for example, will check
+ only the comments and strings (when using 'aspell').
+- The process number is added to the name of an emergency save file,
+ so that when multiple nanos die they will not fight over a filename.
+- Undoing a cutting operation will restore an anchor that was located
+ in the cut area to its original line.
+- When using --locking, saving a new buffer will create a lock file.
+- Syntax highlighting for YAML files has been added.
+ |
+
+
+2021 June 15 - GNU nano 5.8 "Why is it necessary to be special?"
+
+
+- After a search, the spotlighting is dropped after 1.5 seconds (0.8
+ seconds with --quick) to avoid the idea that the text is selected.
+- A + and a space before a filename on the command line will put
+ the cursor at the end of the corresponding buffer.
+- Linter messages no longer include filename and line/column numbers.
+- Color name "grey" or "gray" can be used instead of "lightblack".
+- The color of the minibar can be chosen with 'set minicolor'.
+ |
+
+
+2021 April 29 - GNU nano 5.7 "Toți ceilalți arau câmpurile"
+
+
+- The output of --constantshow (without --minibar) is more stable.
+- When opening multiple buffers and there is an error message, this
+ message is shown again upon first switch to the relevant buffer.
+- The position and size of the indicator now follow actual lines,
+ instead of visual lines when in softwrap mode, meaning that the
+ size of the indicator can change when scrolling in softwrap mode.
+ |
+
+
+2021 March 3 - GNU nano 5.6.1 "Geelgors"
+
+
+- Search matches are properly colorized in softwrap mode too.
+- Option 'highlightcolor' has been renamed to 'spotlightcolor'.
+ |
+
+
+2021 February 24 - GNU nano 5.6 "Wielewaal"
+
+
+- A search match gets highlighted (in black on yellow by default),
+ in addition to placing the cursor at the start of the match.
+ The color combination can be changed with 'set highlightcolor'.
+ By default the cursor is hidden until the next keystroke, but
+ it can be forced on with --showcursor / 'set showcursor'.
+- Option --markmatch / 'set markmatch' has been removed.
+- Cursor position and character code are displayed in the minibar
+ only when option --constantshow / 'set constantshow' is used,
+ and their display can be toggled with M-C.
+- The state flags are displayed in the minibar only when option
+ --stateflags / 'set stateflags' is used.
+ |
+
+
+2021 January 14 - GNU nano 5.5 "Rebecca"
+
+
+- Option 'set minibar' makes nano suppress the title bar and instead
+ show a bar with basic editing information at the bottom: file name
+ (plus an asterisk when the buffer is modified), the cursor position
+ (line,column), the character under the cursor (U+xxxx), the flags
+ that --stateflags normally shows, plus the percentage of the buffer
+ that is above the cursor.
+- With 'set promptcolor' the color combination of the prompt bar can
+ be changed, to allow contrasting it with the mini bar (which always
+ has the same color as the title bar).
+- Option 'set markmatch' highlights the result of a successful search
+ by putting the mark at the end of the match, making the match more
+ visible. It also suppresses the cursor until the next keystroke.
+ (If you dislike the hiding of the cursor, use 'set showcursor'.)
+- The bindable toggle 'nowrap' has been renamed to 'breaklonglines',
+ to match the corresponding option, like for all other toggles.
+- Support for Slang has been removed.
+ |
+
+
+2020 December 2 - GNU nano 5.4 "Terre des hommes"
+
+
+- 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.
+ |
+
+
+2020 October 7 - GNU nano 5.3 "Revolution!"
+
+
+- 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"
+
+
+- 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"
+
+
+- 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"
+
+
+- With --indicator (or -q or 'set indicator') nano will show a kind
+ of scrollbar on the righthand side of the screen to indicate where
+ in the buffer the viewport is located and how much it covers.
+- With <Alt+Insert> any line can be "tagged" with an anchor, and
+ <Alt+PageUp> and <Alt+PageDown> will jump to the nearest anchor.
+ When using line numbers, an anchor is shown as "+" in the margin.
+- The Execute Command prompt is now directly accessible from the
+ main menu (with ^T, replacing the Spell Checker). The Linter,
+ Formatter, Spell Checker, Full Justification, Suspension, and
+ Cut-Till-End functions are available in this menu too.
+- On terminals that support at least 256 colors, nine new color
+ names are available: pink, purple, mauve, lagoon, mint, lime,
+ peach, orange, and latte. These do not have lighter versions.
+- For the color names red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta,
+ white, and black, the prefix 'light' gives a brighter color.
+ Prefix 'bright' is deprecated, as it means both bold AND light.
+- All color names can be preceded with "bold," and/or "italic,"
+ (in that order) to get a bold and/or italic typeface.
+- With --bookstyle (or -O or 'set bookstyle') nano considers any
+ 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
+ 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.
+- Bindable function 'curpos' has been renamed to 'location'.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- Distro-specific syntaxes, and syntaxes of less common languages,
+ have been moved down to subdirectory syntax/extra/. The affected
+ distros and others may wish to move wanted syntaxes one level up.
+- Syntaxes for Markdown, Haskell, and Ada were added.
+ |
+
+
+2020 May 23 - GNU nano 4.9.3 "Almendras"
+
+
+ One more bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a crash when
+ the terminal screen is resized while at a lock-file prompt.
+ |
+
+
+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 <Enter> 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
+ spelling 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.
+- Opening a file no longer triggers an inotify CLOSE_WRITE event.
+- 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.
+ |
@@ -457,7 +882,7 @@ 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!
@@ -512,12 +937,4 @@ Bye! And thanks for all the grass!
|