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2022.02.09 - GNU nano 6.1 "Rețelele de socializare sunt ca un frigider"
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• The behavior of ^K at a prompt has been enhanced: when there is some
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text after the cursor, just this text is erased. In the most common
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situation, when the cursor is at the end of the answer, the behavior
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is as before: the whole answer is erased.
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• At a prompt, M-6 copies the current answer into the cutbuffer.
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• Large external pastes into nano are handled more quickly.
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2021.12.15 - GNU nano 6.0 "Humor heeft ook zijn leuke kanten"
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• Option --zero hides the title bar, status bar and help lines, and
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uses all rows of the terminal as editing area. The title bar and
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status bar can be toggled with M-Z.
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• Colors can now be specified also as three-digit hexadecimal numbers,
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in the format #rgb. This picks from the 216 index colors (that most
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terminals know) the color that is nearest to the given values.
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• For users who dislike numbers, there are fourteen new color names:
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rosy, beet, plum, sea, sky, slate, teal, sage, brown, ocher, sand,
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tawny, brick, and crimson.
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• Suspension is enabled by default, invokable with ^T^Z. The options
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-z, --suspendable, and 'set suspendable' are obsolete and ignored.
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(In case you want to be able to suspend nano with a single keystroke,
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you can put 'bind ^Z suspend main' in your nanorc.)
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• When automatic hard-wrapping is in effect, pasting just a few words
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(without a line break) will now hard-wrap the line when needed.
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• Toggling Append or Prepend clears the current filename.
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• The word count as shown by M-D is now affected by option --wordbounds;
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with it, nano counts words as 'wc' does; without it (the new default),
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words are counted in a more human way: seeing punctuation as space.
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• The YAML syntax file is now actually included in the tarball.
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2021.10.06 - GNU nano 5.9 "El manicomio ha decidido: mañana sol!"
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• The extension of a filename is added to the name of a corresponding
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temporary file, so that spell checking a C file, for example, will
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check only the comments and strings (when using 'aspell').
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• The process number is added to the name of an emergency save file,
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so that when multiple nanos die they will not fight over a filename.
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• Undoing a cutting operation will restore an anchor that was located
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in the cut area to its original line.
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• When using --locking, saving a new buffer will create a lock file.
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• Syntax highlighting for YAML files has been added.
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2021.06.15 - GNU nano 5.8 "Why is it necessary to be special?"
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• After a search, the spotlighting is dropped after 1.5 seconds (0.8
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seconds with --quick) to avoid the idea that the text is selected.
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• A + and a space before a filename on the command line will put the
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cursor at the end of the corresponding buffer.
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• Linter messages no longer include filename and line/column numbers.
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• Color name "grey" or "gray" can be used instead of "lightblack".
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• The color of the minibar can be chosen with 'set minicolor'.
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2021.04.29 - GNU nano 5.7 "Toți ceilalți arau câmpurile"
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• The output of --constantshow (without --minibar) is more stable.
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• When opening multiple buffers and there is an error message, this
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message is shown again upon first switch to the relevant buffer.
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• The position and size of the indicator now follow actual lines,
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instead of visual lines when in softwrap mode, meaning that the
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size of the indicator can change when scrolling in softwrap mode.
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2021.03.03 - GNU nano 5.6.1 "Geelgors"
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• Search matches are properly colorized in softwrap mode too.
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• Option 'highlightcolor' has been renamed to 'spotlightcolor'.
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2021.02.24 - GNU nano 5.6 "Wielewaal"
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• A search match gets highlighted (in black on yellow by default),
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in addition to placing the cursor at the start of the match.
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The color combination can be changed with 'set highlightcolor'.
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By default the cursor is hidden until the next keystroke, but
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it can be forced on with --showcursor / 'set showcursor'.
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• Option --markmatch / 'set markmatch' has been removed.
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• Cursor position and character code are displayed in the minibar
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only when option --constantshow / 'set constantshow' is used,
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and their display can be toggled with M-C.
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• The state flags are displayed in the minibar only when option
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--stateflags / 'set stateflags' is used.
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2021.01.14 - GNU nano 5.5 "Rebecca"
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• Option 'set minibar' makes nano suppress the title bar and instead
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show a bar with basic editing information at the bottom: file name
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(plus an asterisk when the buffer is modified), the cursor position
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(line,column), the character under the cursor (U+xxxx), the flags
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that --stateflags normally shows, plus the percentage of the buffer
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that is above the cursor.
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• With 'set promptcolor' the color combination of the prompt bar can
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be changed, to allow contrasting it with the mini bar (which always
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has the same color as the title bar).
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• Option 'set markmatch' highlights the result of a successful search
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by putting the mark at the end of the match, making the match more
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visible. It also suppresses the cursor until the next keystroke.
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(If you dislike the hiding of the cursor, use 'set showcursor'.)
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• The bindable toggle 'nowrap' has been renamed to 'breaklonglines',
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to match the corresponding option, like for all other toggles.
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• Support for Slang has been removed.
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2020.12.02 - GNU nano 5.4 "Terre des hommes"
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• Moving the cursor now skips over combining characters (and other
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zero-width characters). Deleting a character deletes also any
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succeeding zero-width characters, but backspacing deletes just
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one character at a time.
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• Workarounds for older ncurses and older libvtes were removed.
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2020.10.07 - GNU nano 5.3 "Revolution!"
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• Option 'set stateflags' makes nano show the state of auto-indenting,
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the mark, hard-wrapping, macro recording, and soft-wrapping in the
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title bar. The flags take the place of "Modified", and a modified
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buffer is instead indicated by an asterisk (*) after its name.
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• Nano no longer by default tries using libmagic to determine the type
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of a file (when neither filename nor first line gave a clue), because
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in most cases it is a waste of time. It requires using the option
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--magic or -! or 'set magic' to make nano try libmagic.
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• The color of the indicator can be changed with 'set scrollercolor'.
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2020.08.24 - GNU nano 5.2 "Ranrapalca"
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• Making certain replacements after a large paste does not crash.
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• Hitting a toggle at the Search prompt does not clear the answer.
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• Using --positionlog does not complain at the first start.
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• A macro containing a Search command will not sometimes fail.
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2020.08.12 - GNU nano 5.1 "Cantabria"
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• M-Bsp (Alt+Backspace) deletes a word backwards, like in Bash.
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• M-[ has become bindable. (Be careful, though: as it is the
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starting combination of many escape sequences, avoid gluing
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it together with other keystrokes, like in a macro.)
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• With --indicator and --softwrap, the first keystroke in an
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empty buffer does not crash.
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• Invoking the formatter while text is marked does not crash.
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• In UTF-8 locales, an anchor is shown as a diamond.
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2020.07.29 - GNU nano 5.0 "Among the fields of barley"
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• With --indicator (or -q or 'set indicator') nano will show a kind
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of scrollbar on the righthand side of the screen to indicate where
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in the buffer the viewport is located and how much it covers.
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• With <Alt+Insert> any line can be "tagged" with an anchor, and
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<Alt+PageUp> and <Alt+PageDown> will jump to the nearest anchor.
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When using line numbers, an anchor is shown as "+" in the margin.
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• The Execute Command prompt is now directly accessible from the
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main menu (with ^T, replacing the Spell Checker). The Linter,
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Formatter, Spell Checker, Full Justification, Suspension, and
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Cut-Till-End functions are available in this menu too.
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• On terminals that support at least 256 colors, nine new color
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names are available: pink, purple, mauve, lagoon, mint, lime,
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peach, orange, and latte. These do not have lighter versions.
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• For the color names red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta,
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white, and black, the prefix 'light' gives a brighter color.
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Prefix 'bright' is deprecated, as it means both bold AND light.
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• All color names can be preceded with "bold," and/or "italic,"
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(in that order) to get a bold and/or italic typeface.
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• With --bookstyle (or -O or 'set bookstyle') nano considers any
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line that begins with whitespace as the start of a paragraph.
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• Refreshing the screen with ^L now works in every menu.
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• In the main menu, ^L also centers the line with the cursor.
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• Toggling the help lines with M-X now works in all menus except
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in the help viewer and the linter.
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• At a filename prompt, the first <Tab> lists the possibilities,
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and these are listed near the bottom instead of near the top.
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• Bindable function 'curpos' has been renamed to 'location'.
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• Long option --tempfile has been renamed to --saveonexit.
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• Short option -S is now a synonym of --softwrap.
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• The New Buffer toggle (M-F) has become non-persistent. Options
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--multibuffer and 'set multibuffer' still make it default to on.
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• Backup files will retain their group ownership (when possible).
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• Data is synced to disk before "... lines written" is shown.
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• The raw escape sequences for F13 to F16 are no longer recognized.
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• Distro-specific syntaxes, and syntaxes of less common languages,
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have been moved down to subdirectory syntax/extra/. The affected
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distros and others may wish to move wanted syntaxes one level up.
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• Syntaxes for Markdown, Haskell, and Ada were added.
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2020.05.23 - GNU nano 4.9.3 "Almendras"
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• One more bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a crash when
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the terminal screen is resized while at a lock-file prompt.
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2020.04.07 - GNU nano 4.9.2 "Mali Lošinj"
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• Another bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a likely crash
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after undoing an <Enter> at the end of leading whitespace.
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2020.03.31 - GNU nano 4.9.1 "Sapperdeflap"
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• Two bugs introduced in version 4.9 are fixed: the cursor
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getting misplaced when undoing line cuts, and filtering
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of the whole buffer to a new buffer not working.
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2020.03.24 - GNU nano 4.9 "die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"
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• When justifying a selection, the new paragraph and the
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succeeding one get the appropriate first-line indent.
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• Trying to justify an empty selection does not crash.
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• Redoing the insertion of an empty file does not crash.
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• On the BSDs and macOS, ^H has become rebindable again
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(in most terminal emulators, not on the console).
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• DOS line endings in nanorc files are accepted.
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• Option --suspend / 'set suspend' has been renamed to
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the more logical --suspendable / 'set suspendable'.
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2020.02.07 - GNU nano 4.8 "Jaška"
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• When something is pasted into nano, auto-indentation is suppressed,
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and the paste can be undone as a whole with a single M-U.
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• When a lock file is encountered during startup, pressing ^C/Cancel
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quits nano. (Pressing 'No' just skips the file and continues.)
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• Shift+Meta+letter key combos can be bound with 'bind Sh-M-letter'.
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Making any such binding dismisses the default behavior of ignoring
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Shift for all Meta+letter keystrokes.
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• The configuration option --with-slang (to be avoided when possible)
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can now be used only together with --enable-tiny.
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• A custom nanorc file can be specified on the command line, with
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-f filename or --rcfile=filename.
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2019.12.23 - GNU nano 4.7 "Havikskruid"
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• A <Tab> will indent a marked region only when mark and cursor are
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on different lines.
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• Two indentations (any mix of tabs and spaces) are considered the
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same when they look the same (that is: indent to the same level).
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• When using --breaklonglines or ^J, a line will never be broken in
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its leading whitespace or quoting.
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• The keywords in nanorc files must be in lowercase.
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2019.11.29 - GNU nano 4.6 "And don't you eat that yellow snow"
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• The 'formatter' command has returned, bound by default to M-F.
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It allows running a syntax-specific command on the contents of
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the buffer.
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• ^T will try to run 'hunspell' before 'spell', because it checks
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spelling for the locale's language and understands UTF-8.
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• Multiple errors or warnings on startup will no longer slow nano
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down but will be indicated on the status bar with trailing dots.
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2019.10.04 - GNU nano 4.5 "Košice"
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• The new 'tabgives' command allows you to specify per syntax what
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the <Tab> key should produce: some spaces, a hard TAB, ...
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• The output of --help is properly aligned again for all languages.
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• <Tab> will indent a marked region also when M-} has been rebound.
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2019.08.25 - GNU nano 4.4 "Hagelslag"
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• At startup, the cursor can be put on the first or last occurrence
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of a string by preceding the filename with +/string or +?string.
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• When automatic hard-wrapping occurs (--breaklonglines), any leading
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quoting characters will be automatically copied to the new line.
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• M-6 works again also when the cursor is at end of buffer.
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2019.06.18 - GNU nano 4.3 "Musa Kart"
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• The ability to read from and write to a FIFO has been regained.
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• Opening a file no longer triggers an inotify CLOSE_WRITE event.
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• Startup time is reduced by fully parsing a syntax only when needed.
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• Asking for help (^G) when using --operatingdir does not crash.
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• The reading of a huge or slow file can be stopped with ^C.
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• Cut, zap, and copy operations are undone separately when intermixed.
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• M-D reports the correct number of lines (zero for an empty buffer).
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2019.04.24 - GNU nano 4.2 "Tax the rich, pay the teachers"
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• The integrated spell checker does not crash when 'spell' is missing.
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• Option --breaklonglines works also when --ignorercfiles is used.
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• Automatic hard-wrapping is more persistent in pushing words to the
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same overflow line.
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2019.04.15 - GNU nano 4.1 "Qué corchos será eso?"
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• By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the
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end of a buffer, to produce valid POSIX text files by default, but
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also to get back the easy adding of text at the bottom.
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• The now unneeded option --finalnewline (-f) has been removed.
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• Syntax files are read in alphabetical order when globbing, so that
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the precedence of syntaxes becomes predictable.
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• In the C syntax, preprocessor directives are highlighted differently.
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• M-S now toggles soft wrapping, and M-N toggles line numbers.
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• The jumpy-scrolling toggle has been removed.
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• The legacy keystrokes ^W^Y and ^W^V are recognized again.
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• Executing an external command is disallowed when in view mode.
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• Problems with resizing during external or speller commands were fixed.
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2019.03.24 - GNU nano 4.0 "Thy Rope of Sands"
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• An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped.
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• Smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default.
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• A newline character is no longer automatically added at end of buffer.
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• The line below the title bar is by default part of the editing space.
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• Option --breaklonglines (-b) turns automatic hard-wrapping back on.
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• Option --jumpyscrolling (-j) gives the chunky, half-screen scrolling.
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• Option --finalnewline (-f) brings back the automatic newline at EOF.
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• Option --emptyline (-e) leaves the line below the title bar unused.
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• <Alt+Up> and <Alt+Down> now do a linewise scroll instead of a findnext.
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• Any number of justifications can be undone (like all other operations).
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• When marked text is justified, it becomes a single, separate paragraph.
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• Option --guidestripe=<number> draws a vertical bar at the given column.
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• Option --fill=<number> no longer turns on automatic hard-wrapping.
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• When a line continues offscreen, it now ends with a highlighted ">".
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• The halves of a split two-column character are shown as "[" and "]".
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• A line now scrolls horizontally one column earlier.
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• The bindable functions 'cutwordleft' and 'cutwordright' were renamed
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to 'chopwordleft' and 'chopwordright' as they don't use the cutbuffer.
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• The paragraph-jumping functions were moved from Search to Go-to-Line.
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• Option --rebinddelete is able to compensate for more misbindings.
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• Options --morespace and --smooth are obsolete and thus ignored.
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• The --disable-wrapping-as-root configure option was removed.
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2018.11.11 - GNU nano 3.2 "Het kromme hout" changes the default binding
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for the linter to M-B so that the spell checker (^T) can
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always be used, and changes (when linting) the text in the
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title bar and the color of the status bar to make linting
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mode more obvious. It also adds a bindable 'zap' function
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for deleting a line or marked region without changing the
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cutbuffer, adds --zap to bind the <Del> and <Backspace>
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keys to the zap function when something is marked, and
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hard-binds <Alt+Del> to 'zap'. Furthermore, it shows the
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cursor also in the help viewer (when --showcursor is used),
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renames the bindable functions 'prevhistory' to 'older' and
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'nexthistory' to 'newer' (update your nanorcs when needed),
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reads the nanorc files also in restricted mode to allow
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customization by the user (if this should not be allowed,
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use --ignorercfiles in addition to --restricted), allows
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in view mode to open also other files (if this should not
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be allowed, use --restricted in addition to --view), makes
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resizes respect a relative --fill again, no longer binds
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F13...F15 by default, properly re-highlights a misspelled
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word after invoking help in the internal spell checker,
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and does not skip Unicode characters in string binds.
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2018.09.18 - GNU nano 3.1 "Je faisais des bonds comme ça!" fixes a
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misbinding of ^H on some terminals and some systems,
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does not leave stray stuff after the prompt upon exit
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when having suspended nano while using --constantshow,
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and does not allow to toggle to Replace in view mode.
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2018.09.09 - GNU nano 3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the
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reading of a file by seventy percent, roughly doubles the
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speed of handling ASCII text, changes the way words at line
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boundaries are deleted, makes <Ctrl+Delete> wipe the next
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word and <Ctrl+Shift+Delete> the preceding word, binds M-Q
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to 'findprevious' by default (the Tabs-to-Spaces toggle is
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placed on M-O, and the More-Space toggle is fully removed),
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makes an external spell check undoable, shows the correct
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number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple
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files, removes the 'formatter' command, removes the
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'searchagain' bindable function (M-W is now bound to
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'findnext' by default), moves the No-Convert toggle to the
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Insert menu, removes the Backup and New-Buffer toggles from
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the main menu (they remain in the Write-Out and Insert
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menus, respectively), is more precise in what it accepts as
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a rebindable key name, ignores any presses of <Esc> before
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a valid command keystroke, recognizes some more escape
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sequences for modified editing-pad keys, does not hide
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rcfile error messages on a Linux console, renames the
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bindable functions 'copytext' to 'copy' and 'uncut' to
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'paste', and avoids a possible hang during a Full-Justify.
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2018.06.02 - GNU nano 2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the
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buffer (or the marked region) through an external command
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(^R^X and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is
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better at detecting and maintaining paragraphs, is able to
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justify //-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding
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of a key to a string lacks a closing quote, gives feedback
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about the number of lines written also when prepending or
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appending, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter.
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2018.05.15 - GNU nano 2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option '--afterends'
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for making Ctrl+Right (the nextword function) stop at word
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ends instead of beginnings, accepts multibyte letters for
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the Yes/No/All answers, does emergency saves of changed
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buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes, adds the
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until-now missing bindable function 'linenumbers', and
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renames the toggles 'constupdate' to 'constantshow' and
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'cuttoend' to 'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the
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corresponding options -- adjust your nanorc files soon.
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2018.04.27 - GNU nano 2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion,
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makes --enable-altrcname work again, improves the fluidity
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of scrolling when using the touchpad, tweaks the syntaxes
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for shell scripts and PO files, makes a replacing session
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go always forward by default, no longer inserts a newline
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after an external spell check of a selected region, always
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accepts the English Y and N (and A) at a yes-no prompt in
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any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs.
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2018.03.29 - GNU nano 2.9.5 "Kiša pada" changes the way the Scroll-Up
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and Scroll-Down commands work (M-- and M-+): instead of
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keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now
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keep the cursor in the same text position (if possible).
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This version further adds a new color name, "normal",
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which gives the default foreground or background color,
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which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous
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painting by earlier syntax regexes. Bug fixes include:
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a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted
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mode, the reading in of a new file being "undoable", a
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slight miswrapping of help texts when --linenumbers was
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used, and the shell syntax coloring the word "tar" in
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file names.
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2018.03.08 - GNU nano 2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a string
|
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(any piece of text and/or commands), permits customizing
|
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the color of error messages with 'set errorcolor', colors
|
|
those error messages by default in bright white on red,
|
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makes <Enter> at the bottom of the screen scroll just one
|
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row when --smooth is used, does not fail when redoing a
|
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file insertion, and cancels a Shift-selection when any
|
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cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor
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cannot move. Further, it treats tabs fully the same as
|
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spaces when doing automatic hard-wrapping, allows syntax
|
|
names to be unquoted, and removes two deprecated options
|
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and six deprecated bindable function names.
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2018.01.29 - GNU nano 2.9.3 "Córdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks
|
|
that could occur when a typed space caused the word after
|
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it to be pushed to the next line. It further makes macros
|
|
work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences,
|
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adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line,
|
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recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals,
|
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no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible
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whitespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing
|
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replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named
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pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects
|
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a needed color change when a line contains a start match
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but not a corresponding end match any more. Plus some
|
|
other small fry.
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|
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2018.01.02 - GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified
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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
|
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the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames
|
|
the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will
|
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now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing
|
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(and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words
|
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to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes
|
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<Tab> and <Shift+Tab> indent and unindent a marked region,
|
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allows unindenting when not all lines are indented, lets a
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region marked with Shift persist when indenting/unindenting
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or commenting/uncommenting it, and in those cases excludes
|
|
the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked
|
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(which makes for a more intuitive behavior).
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|
|
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2017.11.27 - GNU nano 2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where, when the mark
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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.
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|
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2017.11.18 - 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.
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|
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|
|
|
2017.08.27 - 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.
|
|
|
|
2017.07.21 - 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'
|
|
together with the softwrap option. This release further
|
|
fixes a handful of rare display glitches, fixes a build
|
|
failure on AIX, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc
|
|
files, and renames the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor'
|
|
(please update your nanorc files before 2020).
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|
|
|
2017.06.25 - GNU nano 2.8.5 "Farouche" 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
|
|
in the file browser, opens files in the order they were
|
|
mentioned on the command line, and does not pretend to
|
|
have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT.
|
|
|
|
2017.05.21 - GNU nano 2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc
|
|
man page again.
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|
|
|
2017.05.18 - GNU nano 2.8.3 "Hirsch" 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
|
|
asks “save anyway?” when the user ^Q discards the buffer.
|
|
|
|
2017.05.04 - GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" 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
|
|
without UTF-8 support in some locales, avoids redrawing
|
|
the screen twice when switching between buffers while
|
|
line numbers are active, and works around a coloring
|
|
bug on musl. Plus tweaks to the documentation; plus
|
|
translation updates for fifteen languages.
|
|
|
|
2017.04.12 - 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
|
|
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
|
|
only blanks when using autoindent, makes ^Home and ^End
|
|
go to the start and end of the file (on terminals that
|
|
support those keystrokes), places the cursor better when
|
|
linting, lets the linter ask only once whether to open
|
|
an included file, and adds bindings for ^Up and ^Down
|
|
in the file browser. Don't sit on your hands.
|
|
|
|
2017.03.31 - GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" 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
|
|
the start and end of a row, and only when already
|
|
there, then to the start and end of the logical line.
|
|
Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead
|
|
of always per logical line. On an entirely different
|
|
front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build
|
|
on more platforms. In short: there were many internal
|
|
changes, not many user-visible ones (apart from the
|
|
new softwrap navigation). The conversion to gnulib
|
|
was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by
|
|
David Ramsey.
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|
|
|
|
|
2017.02.23 - GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" 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,
|
|
does replacements at the edges of a marked region right,
|
|
no longer hides double-width characters at the head of
|
|
softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at
|
|
startup, and documents the ability to read a file from
|
|
standard input. Come tickle my ears.
|
|
|
|
2017.01.10 - GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" 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
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
2016.12.28 - GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" 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,
|
|
makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a
|
|
Linux console, is more resistant against malformations
|
|
in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is
|
|
typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL.
|
|
Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an
|
|
unlocked file just after saving a new one. That's it.
|
|
Tastes great with thick butter.
|
|
|
|
2016.12.12 - GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" 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
|
|
related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to
|
|
use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on
|
|
VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering
|
|
during interactive replacing, makes a 'set fill' override
|
|
an earlier 'set nowrap', properly restores the selected
|
|
region after an external spell check, and improves a few
|
|
other tidbits. If you should find any more bugs, please
|
|
run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there.
|
|
|
|
2016.10.29 - GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" 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
|
|
M-#. The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the
|
|
option 'set numbercolor'. This release furthermore fixes
|
|
some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict
|
|
in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer
|
|
as modified when the output of a command (^R^X) has been
|
|
read into it. Come and check it out!
|
|
|
|
2016.09.01 - GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" 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
|
|
the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces. Not much,
|
|
but it's time to get it out there.
|
|
|
|
|
|
2016.08.10 - nano 2.6.3 "Marika" 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
|
|
(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!
|
|
|
|
2016.07.28 - nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" 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
|
|
word-forming. Further, it provides feedback during Unicode
|
|
input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which
|
|
must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the
|
|
window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after
|
|
having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line
|
|
anchor (^) just once per line. There are also several tiny
|
|
improvements in screen rendering and key handling. Come get
|
|
your hair tousled!
|
|
|
|
2016.06.27 - nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" 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 bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that
|
|
they aren't even worth mentioning).
|
|
|
|
2016.06.17 - nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" 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
|
|
default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer,
|
|
shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor
|
|
is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if
|
|
there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes
|
|
when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename
|
|
on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches,
|
|
and allows to abort re-searches. Among bunches of other
|
|
things. It is worth the trouble to upgrade.
|
|
|
|
|
|
2016.02.25 - GNU nano 2.5.3 "Alphys" is released. This release contains
|
|
fixes for bugs like: stray cursor positioning errors, many
|
|
many memory leaks including during file reading, using the
|
|
file browser, searching for multibyte characters, history
|
|
completion, and many other places.
|
|
New features include the ability to trim whitespace
|
|
from the ends of lines when justifying text, see nanorc(5)
|
|
option justifytrim for deets. As always thank you for your
|
|
continued support of nano, and keep sparing.
|
|
|
|
2016.02.12 - GNU nano 2.5.2 is carrying too many dogs. This release
|
|
includes several fixes for various memory leaks, position-
|
|
history size growth, and a long-standing issue with using
|
|
nano under sudo creating root-owned files. There are also
|
|
the usual bevy of documentation and other miscellaneous
|
|
fixes and touchups. Upgrade today while supplies last,
|
|
operators are standing by!
|
|
|
|
2016.01.11 - GNU nano 2.5.1 "Salzburg" is released. It includes fixes
|
|
for a syntax-highlighting bug and a positionlog bug, it
|
|
disables a time-eating multiline regex in the C syntax,
|
|
and it adds an escape hatch to the WriteOut menu when
|
|
--tempfile is used: the discardbuffer command, ^Q. It
|
|
also has translation updates for fifteen languages, and
|
|
a small fix in the softwrap code. So... you are heartily
|
|
invited to upgrade. Enjoy!
|
|
|
|
2015.12.05 - GNU nano 2.5.0 "Karma", the first release of the 2.5 series,
|
|
is now available. Please note that as of this release,
|
|
there will no longer be separate stable and unstable
|
|
branches. The development team will prioritize bug fixes
|
|
as needed, and make new releases in proportion to the
|
|
severity of the bugs which are fixed.
|
|
This release includes all of the fixes now in 2.4.3, as
|
|
well as color syntax highlighting improvements, undo fixes,
|
|
and many more improvements! Thank you for using nano!
|
|
|
|
|
|
2015.11.18 - GNU nano 2.4.3 "Apocalypse" is now available for your
|
|
downloading pleasure. This release includes a myriad
|
|
of fixes including several memory leaks, issues with
|
|
color syntax highlighting, search/replace, file insertion
|
|
and help menu bugs. Many thanks to Benno Schulenberg for
|
|
tireless efforts on the vast majority of fixes for some
|
|
time now. As always please report bugs via the Savannah
|
|
page, and remember to Share and Enjoy.
|
|
|
|
2015.07.05 - GNU nano 2.4.2 "Portorož" is released. This release
|
|
includes several fixes, including the ability to resize
|
|
when in modes other than the main editing window, proper
|
|
displaying of invalid UTF-8 bytes, new syntax definitions
|
|
for Elisp, Guile, and PostgreSQL, and better display of
|
|
shortcuts in the help viewer and file browser. Thanks
|
|
for your patience and using nano!
|
|
|
|
2015.04.14 - GNU nano 2.4.1 "Glitch Gremlin" is released. This release
|
|
includes several fixes for issues with the file browser
|
|
menu, linter and formatter functions, spell checker,
|
|
undo/redo with some specific marked-cutting situations,
|
|
and some small improvements to the color syntax
|
|
highlighting definitions. There are also various
|
|
documentation and code comment updates included, and
|
|
finally, fixes for compilation on non-GNU/Linux systems
|
|
and certain configure combinations. Toasters!
|
|
|
|
2015.03.22 - GNU nano 2.4.0 "lizf" is released. This is the first
|
|
stable release in many years, and brings together many
|
|
new features from the 2.3 series, including:
|
|
a fully functional undo system (now enabled by default),
|
|
vim-compatible file locking, linter support, formatter
|
|
support, syntax highlighting flexibility, and many fixes
|
|
for issues reported since 2.2. Many sincere thanks
|
|
to all of the bug reports, patches, well wishes and
|
|
contributions from everyone who has continued to
|
|
support us. Thank you for using nano!
|
|
|
|
|
|
2015.02.27 - GNU nano 2.3.99pre3 "Ashley" is released. This is likely
|
|
to be the last release before the next major (2.4.0)
|
|
release. Please test it out and send us any feedback
|
|
via Savannah (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano).
|
|
This release includes fixes for rebinding toggles via
|
|
nanorc, several memory alignment fixes, and documentation
|
|
and build updates. As always thank you for using nano -
|
|
Share and Enjoy!
|
|
|
|
2015.02.06 - GNU nano 2.3.99pre2 "Snowblind" is released. This release
|
|
contains only fixes, including: a long-standing problem
|
|
with cutting in nano-tiny, several memory alignment
|
|
improvements, and issues with leftover file locks. Please
|
|
keep reporting bugs so we can get a happy and healthy
|
|
2.4.0 soon. Thanks for using nano!
|
|
|
|
2015.01.06 - GNU nano 2.3.99pre1 "Junior" is released. As the first
|
|
2.4 release candidate there will be fewer new features
|
|
but many bugfixes going forward. This release contains
|
|
new support for language reformatters like Go's gofmt
|
|
command which takes the place of the spelling checker.
|
|
Fixes in this release include many syntax highlighting
|
|
fixes and improvements, and documentation formatting updates.
|
|
As always please report bugs via the Savannah bug page for
|
|
nano (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano), so we can
|
|
release a super awesome and bug-free 2.4.0 soon!
|
|
|
|
2014.07.17 - GNU nano 2.3.6 "Columbo" is released. This release
|
|
contains a fix for installing internationalization
|
|
files. Also included are scattered documentation
|
|
(in particular man page) fixes, and a few touchups
|
|
to syntax highlighting definitions. Oh, just one
|
|
more thing, thanks for using nano!
|
|
|
|
2014.07.11 - GNU nano 2.3.5 "lucky day" is released. This release
|
|
contains many visible and under-the-hood fixes for
|
|
components such as file locking, more fixes to the
|
|
undo system, and you no longer have to explicitly ask
|
|
nano to have undo/redo support as it now defaults to
|
|
being enabled. Other notable fixes include a better
|
|
handling of --tempfile mode, and better handling of
|
|
command line arguments when also attempting to specify
|
|
+<line number>. As always, please file any bugs you
|
|
find via https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano
|
|
and thanks for using nano.
|
|
|
|
2014.06.02 - GNU nano 2.3.4 won't leave you high, won't leave you dry.
|
|
This release contains only a small number of fixes, but
|
|
in particular allows nano to compile on non-UTF-8 curses
|
|
implementations (i.e. libncursesw). Other small fixes to
|
|
the undo implementation and the default syntax config are
|
|
also included. As always, Share and Enjoy!
|
|
|
|
2014.05.28 - GNU nano 2.3.3 is in its right place. This release contains
|
|
many many improvements to the core system, including
|
|
substantial improvements to the undo/redo code, UTF-8
|
|
handling, the configure script, and display of shortcuts
|
|
on very wide terminals. New features include the
|
|
ability to write to named pipes (--noread), as well as
|
|
linter support (see the nanorc man page for details). Also
|
|
included are much improved syntax highlighting code, and
|
|
configurations for JSON, texinfo, Go, and a default syntax
|
|
for catch-all highlighting. Finally, nano now has the
|
|
ability to set the color of the title bar, status bar, and
|
|
shortcut keys (e.g. "^X") and their descriptions. Again
|
|
see the nanorc page for details. There's much more, too
|
|
much to include here, but please keep those reports and
|
|
general feedback coming! Thank you for helping us help
|
|
you help us all.
|
|
|
|
2013.03.22 - GNU nano 2.3.2 "Annoy your coworkers for fun and profit" is
|
|
released. This release introduces vim-style file locking
|
|
(though not backup/restore), useful when using nano in a
|
|
multi-editor environment. Feedback is welcome if you run
|
|
into any issues with this new code. Other new features
|
|
include additional support for word boundary checking when
|
|
cross compiling, fixes for trying to go to an invalid
|
|
line number, and the usual documentation tweaks.
|
|
|
|
2011.05.10 - GNU nano 2.3.1 "I'm in space" is released. This release
|
|
includes some fixes for the new libmagic code, as well as
|
|
a fix for improper character counts when using auto-indent.
|
|
Also included are new syntax highlighting definitions for
|
|
RPM spec and Lua files. Thanks for using nano and keep
|
|
circulating the tapes.
|
|
|
|
2011.02.26 - GNU nano 2.3.0 "Septic surprise" is released. This first
|
|
release in the 2.3 unstable series brings several new
|
|
features. First, libmagic support for syntax highlighting
|
|
has been added on top of the existing file extension and
|
|
header support already available. Secondly, cursor position
|
|
can be saved between editing sessions with the -P or --poslog
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command-line flag, or via 'set poslog' in your .nanorc. Also
|
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included are some fixes for compilation with g++, and better
|
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handling of issues writing the backup file, which should
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reduce the need for the 'set allow_insecure_backup' nanorc
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option. Don't stop, get it get it, don't stop, get it get it.
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2010.11.22 - GNU nano 2.2.6 "Pimp my BBS" wants you to go to
|
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www.desertbus.org and donate a few bucks for the great
|
|
Child's Play Charity! This is just a small release to
|
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update a bug where restricted mode was not particularly
|
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restricted since key bindings were introduced. It also
|
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signals the return of win32 builds which now feature
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nanorc support; please see the FAQ for details of how
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to enable it, this feature is a bit of a kludge for now.
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Remember that when all else fails, USE SPACE JUMP.
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2010.08.05 - GNU nano 2.2.5 "Inactivity timeout" is now available.
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This release includes slightly less restrictive checking
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when writing files in strange environments (e.g. when
|
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being used out of crontab). For very strange situations
|
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(such as where you cannot change the permissions on the
|
|
file you're writing), there is a new rc file option
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'allow_insecure_backup' to be even more permissive and
|
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allow the write to proceed. Also included are some
|
|
syntax highlighting updates, and that is about it.
|
|
Keep fighting the good fight children.
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|
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2010.04.15 - GNU nano 2.2.4 is nobody's fool. First and foremost,
|
|
this release includes some security fixes due to
|
|
an assessment of nano's vulnerability to symlink attacks
|
|
on open files. The CVEs fixed with this release are
|
|
CVE-2010-1160 and CVE-2010-1161. Also included are fixes
|
|
for various crash modes when using the spell checker
|
|
on new files in multibuffer mode (surely you've used
|
|
that combination recently? no?) as well as a fixing
|
|
the 'file was modified' message when saving to a
|
|
new filename (since how would nano know?). And
|
|
the list would not be complete without our
|
|
third-times-the-charm fixes to page up/down due to
|
|
the soft wrapping code. The lone new feature
|
|
included is a new syntax highlighting definition for
|
|
cmake-related files. Please do consider upgrading to
|
|
this release if still using the 2.0 series since
|
|
fixes for that version are still forthcoming.
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|
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2010.02.11 - GNU nano 2.2.3 "fumbling toward stability" is released.
|
|
This release contains a fix for only one bug, but a
|
|
rather irritating one: when paging up/down with smooth
|
|
scrolling, the cursor position was not being preserved
|
|
due to a bug in 2.2.2. With such a targeted fix
|
|
like this what could POSSIBLY go WRONG? Hahaha.
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|
Enjoy and if you find new bugs, as always please
|
|
use Savannah's bug tracker.
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|
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano
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2010.01.17 - GNU nano 2.2.2 is released for you, you, you. This
|
|
release includes fixes for: crashes when writing
|
|
backup files in certain conditions, improper
|
|
screen centering when moving up/down in various
|
|
combination of smooth scrolling and soft wrapping modes,
|
|
a search crash on the armel arch, and issues with
|
|
lots of keybinding customizations causing crashing
|
|
particularly on FreeBSD. Also included are better
|
|
help menu entries for forward/back in the file browser,
|
|
some man page tweaks and one assert fix. As always,
|
|
share and enjoy!
|
|
|
|
2009.12.12 - GNU nano 2.2.1 "DLR strikes back" is open for business.
|
|
This release fixes many bugs, including: missing
|
|
keybindings for page up/down and GotoDir in the browser,
|
|
^P/^N in the help menu, and restoration of M-W as the
|
|
default re-search binding. Other fixes include several
|
|
issues with compiler warnings and configure options, and
|
|
documentation updates, including the nano texinfo manual,
|
|
nano and nanorc man pages, and UPGRADE file, and some
|
|
missing syntax highlighting entries for the sample nanorc.
|
|
And no release would be complete without the latest round
|
|
of 'final' soft wrapping fixes! Finally, nano will no
|
|
longer print a warning when attempting to insert the
|
|
contents of a read-only file into an existing buffer.
|
|
Enjoy and Happy Hanukkah.
|
|
|
|
2009.11.30 - GNU nano 2.2.0 "Doc Brown" is released! The culmination
|
|
of almost two years of development and hot on the heels
|
|
of nano's 10th birthday is available for all your editing
|
|
needs! Bugs fixed since the last release include several
|
|
fixes for tiny mode (involving both the help keys and
|
|
replace menu text), more 'final' fixes for soft wrapping,
|
|
and several typo and documentation updates including nanorc
|
|
tweaks and a new syntax highlighting file for makefiles.
|
|
Also included is a long-standing fix for random crashing
|
|
when using nanorc on FreeBSD, and nano will no longer clear
|
|
the screen on suspend to maintain compatibility with other
|
|
*nix editors. For those who haven't been playing along at
|
|
home, please see the official web page for the summary of
|
|
new features since 2.0. Special thanks to all who have
|
|
submitted bug reports recently in support of our new stable
|
|
release, and apologies for all those bugs we didn't yet
|
|
find :-) Peace to all.
|
|
|
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|
|
2009.11.21 - GNU nano 2.1.99pre2 is available for a special pre-Black
|
|
Friday discount. Included are some (hopefully final)
|
|
fixes for issues with last page display caused by the
|
|
soft wrapping code, and a fix for a long-standing issue
|
|
with hitting the Home key when going through the search
|
|
history. On the features front, nano will now attempt to
|
|
retain the proper ownership and permissions when trying
|
|
to create a .save file due to receiving a signal. Nano
|
|
can now also unbind keys from one or more menus via the
|
|
'unbind' keyword. Finally, passing --fill or --nowrap on
|
|
the command line will now override any related .nanorc
|
|
entries. Speak now or forever hold your bugs!
|
|
|
|
2009.11.15 - GNU nano 2.1.99pre1 "take a bow" is out there, man, it's
|
|
out there all right. This release contains mainly
|
|
bugfixes, underscoring that we are preparing for the
|
|
next stable series release. Included are many fixes
|
|
for the new soft wrapping code, compiler warning tweaks,
|
|
and the modification time warning no longer triggers
|
|
when saving a file as a new name. Also include are
|
|
some fixes for various nanorc options, and there are
|
|
surely more bugs to find before we call the code base
|
|
stable, so please keep those reports coming!
|
|
|
|
2009.09.14 - GNU nano 2.1.11 is on very thin ice, very thin ice, very
|
|
thin ice. This release includes two new features: first,
|
|
nano will check whether the current file is writable when
|
|
it is opened, and warn if it is not on the status bar.
|
|
Secondly, a new soft-wrapping (AKA full-line display)
|
|
option is available, which will attempt to fully display
|
|
the contents of lines longer than the width of the screen
|
|
without the usual truncation and a '$' symbol at the end
|
|
of the line. It can be enabled via Meta-$ inside the
|
|
editor, via the -$ or --softwrap command-line flags,
|
|
or via "set softwrap" in your .nanorc. As always,
|
|
please report any bugs to the nano Savannah project page
|
|
(https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano)
|
|
Remember: data loss happens, back up your files.
|
|
|
|
2009.07.28 - GNU nano 2.1.10 "Ellie" is released. This version includes
|
|
various fixes for portability including some older HP-UX
|
|
compiler combos, various compiler warnings, and some crash
|
|
fixes in the undo code. On the topic of the latter item,
|
|
the undo code is now marked as experimental since it can
|
|
cause severe stability and memory issues, and thus now
|
|
requires a flag (-u, --undo) in order to enable it.
|
|
Please feel free to continue to test the undo code and
|
|
thanks again for using nano for your text editing needs.
|
|
Go team Nano!
|
|
|
|
2009.02.16 - GNU nano 2.1.9 wonders what all that glass is doing on the
|
|
floor! This release is primarily meant as a less buggy
|
|
version of 2.1.8, particularly for issues with the new
|
|
sped-up syntax highlighting code. Other fixes include
|
|
configure-time detection of groff HTML support before
|
|
attempting to generate the HTML version of man pages,
|
|
and using ~ or ~username syntax in .nanorc should now
|
|
work again. Also, nano will now only ask for one
|
|
acknowledgement of errors it encounters when parsing
|
|
nanorc files, and a new flag -q (--quiet) will silence
|
|
these messages altogether. Give it a go, and happy
|
|
birthday lenny!
|
|
|
|
2009.02.07 - GNU nano 2.1.8 "unsafe at any speed" is released. This
|
|
release includes some long overdue performance improvements
|
|
in syntax color highlighting, the ability to abort running
|
|
searches (useful mainly when editing very large files) and
|
|
the ability to use nano like a pager for viewing standard
|
|
input (i.e. "nano -"). Additionally, there are gentoo
|
|
syntax highlighting updates and fixes for issues with
|
|
reading files in a directory with strange parent directory
|
|
permissions. The key-bindings code was also substantially
|
|
changed in order to be more ISO-C compatible. Be sure to
|
|
use the Savannah page not only for bug reports but for any
|
|
features you would like to see before the next stable
|
|
series is released. Have fun with it!
|
|
|
|
2008.11.10 - GNU nano 2.1.7 "Effingham" is ready to make good on those
|
|
campaign promises of lower bug rates and 50% more pie.
|
|
This release includes a new check for external modifications
|
|
when saving a file, some code and documentation cleanups,
|
|
and more bug fixes for the new undo code (but we continue
|
|
to welcome your bug reports via the Savannah bug page at
|
|
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano).
|
|
Come get some.
|
|
|
|
2008.10.03 - GNU nano 2.1.6 was for new features before it was against
|
|
them. This release includes more undo capability, several
|
|
new syntax highlighting configurations including Objective
|
|
C, OCaml, and Fortran, and a new capability to activate
|
|
highlighting based on the 1st line of the file being
|
|
edited. Also, the new default configure options now
|
|
include color syntax highlighting, .nanorc support,
|
|
multibuffer and extras. These items can still be disabled
|
|
and are not enabled with --enable-tiny. Bug fixes include
|
|
better signal handling under Cygwin, and that's about it.
|
|
Again please remember to submit bug reports via Savannah at
|
|
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=nano as
|
|
undo functions certainly need more testing. Bon appetit.
|
|
|
|
2008.08.30 - GNU nano 2.1.5 is ready to lead on day one. This release
|
|
contains a better fix for incorrectly reported successful
|
|
writes on full filesystems, more helpful messages when
|
|
an internal error occurs in the undo code, and fixes for
|
|
various combinations of configure-time options and
|
|
compiler flags. Also included is new support for
|
|
changing the rc file name at configure time, and using
|
|
GNU-style regexes for word-boundaries on systems which
|
|
do not support them natively, as well as the ever popular
|
|
translation updates. Rock the tarball.
|
|
|
|
2008.08.09 - GNU nano 2.1.4 "I told you so!" is released. This release
|
|
includes fixes for several severe issues with the new
|
|
undo/redo code. Also the behavior of writing files when
|
|
using backup mode has changed as well: if writing the
|
|
backup file fails, nano will not attempt to write the
|
|
current file. This should help folks who enjoy "extreme
|
|
text editing", i.e. editing files on file systems which
|
|
are likely to run out of space; see Savannah bug #24000.
|
|
Have fun with it!
|
|
|
|
2008.08.04 - GNU nano 2.1.3 "least stable version ever" is released.
|
|
This release includes new (and experimental) undo and redo
|
|
functionality for most text operations. The default key
|
|
bindings are Meta-U for undo and Meta-E for redo, but these
|
|
can be remapped using the new 2.1 keybinding code. Also
|
|
included are some fixes for configuring using wide curses,
|
|
crashing when invoking the help menu with certain locales,
|
|
and not saving the search history when compiled with
|
|
configure options.
|
|
|
|
2008.06.24 - GNU nano 2.1.2 "New York City" is released. This
|
|
release contains fixes for binding bad keys, some
|
|
configure-specific compilation failures, and more
|
|
issues with the new input back end and in particular
|
|
the status bar. Also fixed are some long-standing
|
|
issues with compiling on AIX, and a segfault when
|
|
making the terminal window too small. Rest in Peace
|
|
Tim and George!
|
|
|
|
2008.04.01 - GNU nano 2.1.1 won't get fooled again. This release
|
|
contains fixes for the new user-rebindable keys (in
|
|
particular bracket match which was mis-bound), and
|
|
various problems with translations and configure-
|
|
related compilation problems are now fixed as well.
|
|
It also contains new syntax highlighting definitions
|
|
for Tcl, PHP, Gentoo and Debian-related files, and
|
|
some documentation updates as well. Please continue to
|
|
send reports with the key binding code to the Savannah
|
|
page (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano).
|
|
|
|
2008.03.18 - GNU nano 2.1.0 "under old mismanagement" is released.
|
|
This first release in the 2.1 development series
|
|
introduces rebindable keys for most actions inside
|
|
the editor. Please see the nanorc(5) page for more
|
|
information on configuring key bindings. Please
|
|
also report all keybinding bugs (crashes, missing
|
|
menu functions) using the Savannah bug tracker URL,
|
|
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano and
|
|
thanks for sticking with us!
|
|
|
|
|
|
2007.12.20 - GNU nano 2.0.7 keeps its balance. This release fixes
|
|
several bugs, among others: a segfault and several
|
|
cursor positioning problems when uncutting text or
|
|
inserting files into the current buffer; a problem where
|
|
the total number of characters would be miscalculated
|
|
when replacing single-byte characters with multibyte
|
|
ones; several minor issues with the statusbar prompt
|
|
involving text display and mouse support; and several
|
|
oddities when tab-completing in the middle of a line.
|
|
It also improves autodetection of DOS and Mac format
|
|
files, properly supports the mouse wheel when using a
|
|
version of ncurses built with the --enable-ext-mouse
|
|
option, fixes some problems under NetBSD curses, adds a
|
|
lot of translation updates, and adds more minor
|
|
documentation updates. Slang curses emulation support
|
|
has also been changed to turn off all the options that
|
|
--enable-tiny does, as it's hopelessly broken otherwise.
|
|
Finally, nano is now licensed under the GNU GPL version
|
|
3 or later, and its documentation is now dual-licensed
|
|
under the GNU GPL version 3 or later and the GNU FDL
|
|
version 1.2 or later. Have fun.
|
|
|
|
2007.04.26 - GNU nano 2.0.6 "that was quick" is released. This release
|
|
fixes a potential segfault after justifying text marked
|
|
from the bottom up. It also adds one more minor
|
|
documentation update. Enjoy.
|
|
|
|
2007.04.22 - GNU nano 2.0.5 braces for impact. Among other things, this
|
|
release fixes various problems (including a segfault)
|
|
when trying to open or save a file in a directory
|
|
beginning with "~" that isn't a home directory; fixes a
|
|
problem where a file with no name could be saved over an
|
|
existing filename with no warning about overwriting it;
|
|
properly disallows opening directories or device files
|
|
from "include" commands in nanorc files; no longer
|
|
displays a misleading prompt when trying to save in
|
|
restricted mode with the mark on; and properly supports
|
|
the Cancel and Shift-Cancel keys. It also improves
|
|
several color syntaxes to highlight trailing whitespace,
|
|
just as the Java syntax does, and adds yet more minor
|
|
documentation updates. Have fun.
|
|
|
|
2007.04.06 - GNU nano 2.0.4 heralds the dawn. This release contains
|
|
proper support for the Ctrl-[arrow key], Shift-[arrow
|
|
key], and F13-F16 keys under Xfce's Terminal. It also
|
|
adds still more minor documentation updates. Enjoy.
|
|
|
|
2007.01.29 - GNU nano 2.0.3 flows toward its ending. This release
|
|
contains several minor optimizations to make the
|
|
executable a little smaller under some circumstances,
|
|
some translation updates, improvements to the color
|
|
syntax for Python, and still more minor documentation
|
|
updates. Have fun.
|
|
|
|
2006.12.20 - GNU nano 2.0.2 forges ahead. This release fixes a segfault
|
|
when trying to save in a nonexistent directory; fixes
|
|
handling of strings containing nulls at the "Write File",
|
|
"Insert File", "Execute Command", and "Go to Directory"
|
|
prompts; fixes several minor memory leaks; fixes two
|
|
more potential compilation warnings; adds a few
|
|
translation updates; and adds a few more minor
|
|
documentation updates. Enjoy.
|
|
|
|
2006.11.20 - GNU nano 2.0.1 emerges from its cocoon. This release
|
|
contains several bugfixes: saving one file over another
|
|
will now always warn about overwriting it, overwriting
|
|
a file is no longer possible when saving a new file in
|
|
restricted mode, and zero-length Unicode characters are
|
|
now highlighted properly when nano is built without
|
|
regular expression support. It also adds several minor
|
|
documentation updates. Have fun with it.
|
|
|
|
2006.11.06 - GNU nano 2.0.0 does its little dance. This release adds
|
|
documentation updates and a few cosmetic tweaks.
|
|
For those who haven't been following nano 1.3
|
|
development, there are a ton of new features, including
|
|
support for UTF-8, moving to a specified line and column
|
|
instead of just a line, improved color syntax
|
|
highlighting, inserting previously untypeable characters
|
|
using "Verbatim Input" mode, and copying text into the
|
|
cutbuffer without cutting it. There are also fixes for
|
|
some long-standing bugs, such as the "NumLock glitch"
|
|
from nano 1.2.x, and the inability to unjustify text
|
|
after resizing. Finally, there are also a ton of
|
|
translation updates and new translations, as well as new
|
|
color syntaxes. See the UPGRADE file for more
|
|
information, and enjoy the new stable release.
|
|
|
|
|
|
2006.10.25 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre3 learns to appreciate life. This
|
|
release fixes a bug where the screen sometimes wouldn't
|
|
be updated properly after copying text into the
|
|
cutbuffer, fixes a potential warning while compiling,
|
|
and fixes a few other minor inconsistencies. Have fun.
|
|
|
|
2006.10.02 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre2 crosses the threshold. This release
|
|
fixes a few more bugs: cursor positioning after leaving
|
|
the statusbar prompt has been fixed, and verbatim input
|
|
at the statusbar prompt now properly handles newlines.
|
|
Enjoy.
|
|
|
|
2006.08.29 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre1 passes through the flames. This
|
|
release fixes various bugs in the last version: the
|
|
mouse support properly ignores everything except clicks
|
|
of the left mouse button; the statusbar is now blanked
|
|
properly when it should be; indenting and unindenting
|
|
operate on the current line when the mark is off; nano
|
|
should build on Tru64, NetBSD, and other systems that
|
|
use termcap instead of terminfo in their curses
|
|
libraries; the built-in file browser now properly
|
|
navigates file lists that take up only one row; the
|
|
cursor position is now completely restored after
|
|
inserting a file into the current buffer, and after
|
|
inserting the output of a command into a new buffer; the
|
|
^X shortcut at the search prompt has been removed, as
|
|
official Pico doesn't include it and it's too easily
|
|
confused with Exit; the screen is updated properly after
|
|
scrolling a line without moving the cursor; the keyboard
|
|
input routines behave more consistently; and so on.
|
|
Have fun with it.
|
|
|
|
2006.06.26 - GNU nano 1.3.12 escapes the darkness. This release
|
|
contains the last new features that nano will have
|
|
before 2.0: copying text into the cutbuffer without
|
|
cutting it, indenting lines of marked text with a single
|
|
keystroke, reworked help text that should be easier for
|
|
new users, searching for filenames in the file browser,
|
|
the ability to include color regexes in files separate
|
|
from nanorc files, etc. It also contains many bugfixes.
|
|
Text can now be unjustified after justifying it and
|
|
resizing the window; the screen is now cleared when
|
|
suspending; the "default" color syntax is now handled
|
|
properly at all times; lines of text containing tabs are
|
|
now wrapped at the right place; double-column characters
|
|
are now properly displayed when past the right edge of
|
|
the screen; invalid multiline color regexes are now
|
|
ignored; and so on. Enjoy.
|
|
|
|
2006.03.30 - GNU nano 1.3.11 awakens from its fever dream. This release
|
|
focuses mostly on bugfixes, which include better
|
|
handling of the cursor at the statusbar prompt, support
|
|
for certain combinations of Shift and keypad keys in
|
|
both normal and --rebindkeypad mode, a fix for a minor
|
|
display problem after some searches, a real fix for a
|
|
long-standing segfault when displaying overly long
|
|
lines, and a real fix for nano's not hanging up properly
|
|
in xterm under certain circumstances. There are also
|
|
several new features, such as the ability to set the
|
|
characters used as brackets when searching for matching
|
|
brackets, and tab completion of directories at the "Go
|
|
To Directory" prompt. Have fun.
|
|
|
|
2005.12.23 - GNU nano 1.3.10 rises to the surface. This release
|
|
contains several new features as well as fixes for
|
|
several long-standing bugs. The former include the
|
|
ability to scroll up or down single lines without
|
|
scrolling the cursor, reworked bracket searching code
|
|
that doesn't require regular expression support,
|
|
reworked command execution code that uses $SHELL if
|
|
available instead of hardcoding "/bin/sh", and the
|
|
ability to no longer add newlines to files that don't
|
|
end in them via the -L/--nonewlines option. The latter
|
|
include fixes to the statusbar prompt so that mouse
|
|
clicks work properly on it, fixes to the Yes/No/All
|
|
prompt so that mouse clicks on it work properly when
|
|
-O/--morespace is used, and fixes to the resize handling
|
|
so that nano dies properly when the terminal is too
|
|
small to display a prompt. Enjoy.
|
|
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|
2005.10.23 - GNU nano 1.3.9 breaks through the wall. This release
|
|
includes major enhancements as well as bugfixes. The
|
|
enhancements include better handling of invalid UTF-8,
|
|
expansion of the word count option to also count lines
|
|
and characters in the file or selection, more efficient
|
|
screen update routines, a readded -K/--rebindkeypad
|
|
option to work around numeric keypad problems on
|
|
terminals that don't show the usual NumLock glitch, a
|
|
new -W/--wordbounds option to properly detect words
|
|
containing punctuation when moving among them, and
|
|
massive improvements to the color code such as handling
|
|
of unspecified foreground colors, more efficient memory
|
|
usage for color regexes, and new reserved syntaxes
|
|
"default" and "none". The bugfixes include fixes for
|
|
the rewritten history code, fixes for potential line
|
|
numbering problems on 64-bit platforms, fixes for a few
|
|
long-standing minor display problems, a fix for erroneous
|
|
hangups occurring while waiting for input, and a fix for
|
|
a segfault when displaying certain overly long lines.
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|
Have fun with it.
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|
|
|
2005.06.30 - GNU nano 1.3.8 floats at its own level. This release
|
|
contains several new features. Among other things,
|
|
you can now move to a specified column number as well
|
|
as line number within a file, file backups saved in a
|
|
backup directory will have unique names, the search and
|
|
replace history routines should work more consistently,
|
|
you can get a word count by pressing Meta-D at the edit
|
|
window, and there's a new -E/--tabstospaces option to
|
|
convert all typed tabs to spaces (--backupdir's short
|
|
option has been changed to -C). In terms of bugfixes,
|
|
this release contains fixes for minor problems with
|
|
screen updates, UTF-8 display, and flow control; a fix
|
|
for a segfault when displaying some lines ending with
|
|
tabs; better handling of constant cursor position
|
|
display; improved color parsing in the rcfile;
|
|
and support for the "Regexp" toggle in tiny mode
|
|
(-R/--regexp is gone, and --restricted's short option
|
|
has been changed to -R), among other things. Enjoy.
|
|
|
|
2005.04.10 - GNU nano 1.3.7 claws its way to the top. This release
|
|
mostly contains bugfixes for the massive amount of new
|
|
code in 1.3.6. Among other things, nano builds with
|
|
debug support again; going into the help browser at the
|
|
"Read File" prompt no longer kicks you out of the prompt
|
|
after you exit the help browser; paragraph searching no
|
|
longer skips over certain cases of single-line
|
|
paragraphs; the titlebar no longer cuts off some UTF-8
|
|
strings prematurely; and the text displayed in the help
|
|
browser is now wrapped as it was in nano 1.2.x, taking
|
|
UTF-8 support into account. New features include an
|
|
--enable/disable-utf8 configure option to explicitly
|
|
turn detection of UTF-8 support on or off, and sample
|
|
regexes for C++ as well as C. Have fun.
|
|
|
|
2005.03.20 - GNU nano 1.3.6 "shout it from the rooftops" is released.
|
|
This release finally includes the long-awaited support
|
|
for UTF-8. Other new features include the ability to
|
|
insert UTF-8 characters using verbatim input; the
|
|
ability to delete all text from the cursor position to
|
|
the end of the file via ^W^X as (patched) Pico does;
|
|
improvements to input and output so that pasted text
|
|
displays faster, improvements to the statusbar prompt so
|
|
that more edit window shortcuts, including verbatim
|
|
input and previous/next word search, work in it; a new
|
|
option to allow using the formerly always-blank second
|
|
line of the screen as part of the edit window; and the
|
|
ability to refresh the help browser and file browser
|
|
windows via Ctrl-L. Notable bug fixes include a fix for
|
|
a segfault when using full justify, and a fix for the
|
|
long-standing bug where nano would keep running if the
|
|
terminal it was in died unexpectedly. Enjoy.
|
|
|
|
2004.11.22 - GNU nano 1.3.5 hurls itself forward. New features in this
|
|
release include the ability to replace only marked text
|
|
when the mark is on, improvements to smooth scrolling so
|
|
that it applies everywhere instead of just affecting the
|
|
movement keys, improvements to how files are opened so
|
|
that they are no longer displayed unnecessarily, support
|
|
for multiple +LINE arguments in addition to multiple
|
|
filenames on the command line, autodetection of the
|
|
format to save a file in based on the format it was in
|
|
when it was opened, the ability to toggle both ways
|
|
between the "Read File" and "Execute Command" prompts
|
|
and the "Search" and "Go to Line" prompts, and support
|
|
for cross-compiling nano. As for bug fixes, the
|
|
"tabsize" nanorc option works again, mouse clicks on the
|
|
shortcut list trigger the right shortcuts again,
|
|
tab-completing a filename with %'s in it no longer
|
|
causes a segfault, the internal spell checker no longer
|
|
skips words after the cursor position when the cursor is
|
|
in the middle of the file, and spell checking of only
|
|
marked text now works properly. Have fun with it.
|
|
|
|
2004.08.17 - GNU nano 1.3.4 marches forth after a false start. This
|
|
release mainly features fixes for the bugs that crept
|
|
into the last release. Among other things, nano now
|
|
compiles again with certain options, quoted justify now
|
|
works properly on systems without regex.h, full justify
|
|
no longer segfaults when used on a file with no
|
|
paragraphs, previous paragraph searching works properly
|
|
again, tab completion is properly disabled when needed
|
|
in restricted mode, Ctrl-C is no longer disabled after
|
|
using the alternate spell checker, the permissions of a
|
|
newly created file now match those of nano 1.2.x again,
|
|
and replacing all text in a file now properly updates
|
|
the screen in all cases. New features include sample
|
|
regexes for patch files, improvements to the sample
|
|
regexes for C files, and support for strings greater
|
|
than 1023 characters and/or containing nulls in
|
|
.nano_history. Additionally, the full justify keystroke
|
|
has been changed to match current Pico, and whitespace
|
|
display mode is now turned off by default. Enjoy.
|
|
|
|
2004.06.28 - GNU nano 1.3.3 marches forth. There are several new
|
|
features in this release, including a restricted mode
|
|
that provides better security than just setting an
|
|
operating directory, the ability to justify the entire
|
|
file at once, support for a "smart" Home key that can
|
|
leap from the beginning of text on a line to the true
|
|
beginning of the line (or the reverse) in one stroke,
|
|
support for specifying an alternative spell checker in
|
|
$SPELL, the ability to specify the characters used to
|
|
display spaces and tabs so that they can easily be told
|
|
apart, and the ability to specify the characters marking
|
|
the ends of sentences as used in justification. There
|
|
are also several bug fixes; among other things,
|
|
justification now keeps spaces at the ends of all but
|
|
the last line of a paragraph as Pico does, saving a
|
|
marked selection no longer changes the current filename
|
|
to the filename the selection was saved under, resizing
|
|
now works better and no longer corrupts the screen under
|
|
slang, and the movement functions now avoid doing
|
|
unnecessary redraws and hence work faster. In short,
|
|
there are a lot of new things to play with. Enjoy.
|
|
|
|
2004.03.31 - GNU nano 1.3.2 is prepared for the void. New features in
|
|
this release include the ability to spell-check only
|
|
marked text and the ability to save all backup files in
|
|
a specified directory instead of wherever the original
|
|
files are. Bug fixes include a fix for a segfault when
|
|
replacing certain regular expressions, fixes for some
|
|
misbehavior when doing searches, minor fixes to verbatim
|
|
input mode and keyboard input in general, better
|
|
handling of window resizes at certain times, and
|
|
allowing the mark to be saved properly again when
|
|
switching between multiple file buffers. nano has also
|
|
been ported to the Tandem NonStop Kernel. Have fun.
|
|
|
|
2004.01.09 - GNU nano 1.3.1 is outside the gates. This release
|
|
features, among other things, fixes for the input
|
|
routines to deal with some problems they had, a
|
|
reorganized shortcut list for the help browser, minor
|
|
Pico compatibility improvements for the file browser,
|
|
fixes for misbehavior when replacing certain regular
|
|
expressions, and the ability to highlight those regular
|
|
expressions properly. It also allows searching without
|
|
prompting to work in view mode, adds support for glib
|
|
2.x for those systems that need it, updates the .spec
|
|
file for the 1.3 branch, prompts you first when you try
|
|
to save a file under a different name, and adds a new
|
|
verbatim input mode that acts as ^V does under vi, but
|
|
with additional Pico compatibility (explained in the
|
|
FAQ). Basically, a bunch of fixes and a few new
|
|
features for your editor of choice. Enjoy.
|
|
|
|
2003.10.22 - GNU nano 1.3.0 is loosed upon the world. This is the first
|
|
release in the unstable 1.3.x series, and as such it
|
|
includes a lot of new features, including the addition
|
|
of a -d option for those FreeBSD users with Backspace
|
|
keys that act like Delete keys, the ability to repeat
|
|
the last search without prompting, the ability to search
|
|
for the beginning or end of a paragraph, new smooth
|
|
paging routines to go with the smooth scrolling
|
|
routines, and various improvements to the input and
|
|
display routines to make them behave more intuitively.
|
|
It also includes the usual load of bugfixes. Enjoy.
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003.08.11 - GNU nano 1.2.2 is released, only four months since the
|
|
last version :-). This release includes fixes for
|
|
broken regex detection, search history recall, and
|
|
keypad handling with -K. Debugging strings are no
|
|
longer translated and comments denote where translations
|
|
should be as short as possible (i.e. the statusbar).
|
|
There are new examples for syntax highlighting, and
|
|
documentation updates and fixes. The 1.3.0 CVS tree
|
|
will be opening soon for all your nano desires, so stay
|
|
tuned!
|
|
|
|
2003.04.19 - Happy Easter! GNU nano 1.2.1 is released. This release
|
|
features a new check for broken regexec()
|
|
implementations and some variable, function and macro
|
|
cleanups. Fixes are included for search history,
|
|
cutting marked text, alt keyboard mode, and the usual
|
|
translation and documentation updates.
|
|
|
|
2003.02.19 - GNU nano 1.2.0 is released. Few changes from pre3, just
|
|
some doc and translation updates, and bugfixes for
|
|
justify and file conversion. For those of you who
|
|
haven't kept up with the 1.1 unstable series, v1.2
|
|
brings nanorc support, color syntax highlighting,
|
|
multiple file buffers, search/replace history and much
|
|
much more. Please read the UPGRADE file for details,
|
|
and enjoy GNU nano 1.2.0.
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003.02.13 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre3 "The last testing version, no really!"
|
|
is released. This release includes fixes for wrapping
|
|
(again), resizing, color syntax highlighting, rcfile
|
|
parsing, the mouse code, more memory leaks, and some
|
|
reversion of the code to get the user's home directory
|
|
(nano will now again rely on $HOME). There are also
|
|
translation updates, a new manual page for the nanorc
|
|
file, and an UPGRADE file detailing the changes since
|
|
version 1.0. Please submit reports for any bugs you
|
|
might find to the development team (nano-devel@gnu.org),
|
|
and enjoy nano almost-1.2.0 ;-)
|
|
|
|
2003.02.03 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre2 "bugs in my pockets, bugs in my shoes"
|
|
is released. There are, not surprisingly, only bugfixes
|
|
in this release as we move toward the stable 1.2.0
|
|
release. Fixes are included for translatable string
|
|
format, subexpression replacement, constant cursor
|
|
position, invalid search regexes, justify, screen state on
|
|
SIGHUP and SIGTERM, cutting to end cuts with long lines,
|
|
many file browser and operating directory bugs, memory and
|
|
file descriptor leaks, marker code, spell checker, the
|
|
mouse code with long lines, multiple buffers and non-file
|
|
open errors, replacement string length, and a silly but
|
|
serious history message crash. There is also a drastic
|
|
improvement in CPU utilization for the color regex code.
|
|
Depending on the number of bugs found in this release,
|
|
there may be a 1.1.99pre3 or RC1, or just a 1.2.0 release.
|
|
Most of the major bugs seem to have been worked out, so if
|
|
you are waiting for a good time to test nano before the
|
|
official 1.2.0 release, this would be the one to use.
|
|
Happy bug hunting!
|
|
|
|
2003.01.17 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre1 "enough already" has been released.
|
|
This release is, barring bug fixes and documentation
|
|
updates, what version 1.2.0 has looked like, feature
|
|
wise. There will very likely be bugs, just due the
|
|
volume of changes made in this release. Search and
|
|
replace string history has been added, including an
|
|
option to log history to ~/.nano_history (-H,
|
|
--historylog). Because of this, the Pico incompatible
|
|
search/replace string behavior that used to be the
|
|
default has been deleted. The old "pico" flag (-p) is
|
|
now compatible with Pico's "preserve" mode for allowing
|
|
flow control characters; by default this version ignores
|
|
both ^Q and ^S. The --disable-wrapping-as-root
|
|
configure option has been forward ported from version
|
|
1.0.x, and a new flag to enable all extra options
|
|
(--enable-all) has been added. The internal spell
|
|
checker has been improved, meaning you will now be
|
|
prompted only once for each unique capitalization of a
|
|
given word.
|
|
There have also been lots of bug fixes,
|
|
including the "trying to insert a directory name in
|
|
multibuffer mode bug", the ugly spell checker scrolling,
|
|
the color code, cutting text crashes, justification,
|
|
deleting the "magic line" via replace, and cursor
|
|
positioning on the statusbar. There have also been the
|
|
usual helping of translation and documentation updates.
|
|
Please send all new feedback on this release
|
|
direct to the development list (nano-devel@gnu.org).
|
|
|
|
2002.10.24 - GNU nano 1.1.12 "Make Jordi happy" is released. This
|
|
release demonstrates that nano is starting to freeze for
|
|
version 1.2. New features include a Meta-Y toggle for
|
|
syntax highlighting, pluralized i18n, and a handler for
|
|
SIGTERM. Nano now ignores XOFF (^S) to stop accidental
|
|
lock-ups, and no longer references malloc.h.
|
|
Also included are fixes for zero-length regex
|
|
matches, segfaults with --disable-mouse, justification,
|
|
memory corruption with the browser, version and help
|
|
cmdline output, and translation updates. Aside from the
|
|
(currently up in the air) search history behavior, the
|
|
next version of nano should be 1.1.99pre1. Have fun!
|
|
|
|
2002.10.01 - GNU nano 1.1.11 "Oddball" is released. This release
|
|
features a new version of gettext, a new and improved
|
|
syntax highlighting engine, and some updates for the
|
|
nanorc.sample file. The toggles for case sensitivity
|
|
(Meta-C) and regular expressions (Meta-R) have changed
|
|
in the search and replace prompts, multibuffer status is
|
|
now displayed and can be toggled from the insert file
|
|
menu, and some wrapping behavior that changed in 1.1.10
|
|
has reverted. The --enable-color warning was also made
|
|
less severe, as the color syntax code has improved, and
|
|
nano now uses extended regexes in the .nanorc file.
|
|
Also included are fixes for various memory
|
|
leaks, the operating directory option, username tab
|
|
completion, the page_up and down arrow, go to previous
|
|
word and next word, nanorc parser and line wrapping
|
|
code. Have fun!
|
|
|
|
2002.07.25 - At long last! GNU nano 1.1.10 "What didn't we break?"
|
|
is released. This version of GNU nano features version
|
|
0.11.2 of gettext, building with automake 1.6, some new
|
|
code for displaying control characters, browser
|
|
improvements, a new backup file option (-B, --backup),
|
|
a new option to ignore rc files (-I, --ignorercfiles),
|
|
compatibility with -pedantic, handling null characters
|
|
before EOF, a slightly sportier nanorc.sample and more.
|
|
Fixes are included for justification, the reading
|
|
and writing file routines, resizing and fill length,
|
|
millions of memory leaks, the usage screen was updated,
|
|
and the --quotestr and --regexp really work now ;-)
|
|
Enjoy :)
|
|
|
|
2002.05.12 - GNU nano 1.1.9 is released, happy Mother's Day! This
|
|
release includes many new features, including a prepend
|
|
mode (^O,M-P), a new "syntax" command in the .nanorc to
|
|
allow multiple syntax highlighting types, and a new -Y,
|
|
--syntax flag to set a specific one if there's no
|
|
filename regex to match it against (i.e. w/mutt). The
|
|
^space and M-space keys will now show up in the help
|
|
menu, which itself has been tweaked a bit, and many more
|
|
configure options should now cooperate (like the odd
|
|
pairing of --enable-tiny and --enable-multibuffer). The
|
|
marker should now work when using multiple buffers, and
|
|
the huge memory leak in color syntax highlighting has
|
|
been fixed. A lot of new stuff for everyone's favorite
|
|
text editor ;) Have fun!
|
|
|
|
2002.03.30 - GNU nano 1.1.8 is released. New features include an
|
|
"Insert Output of External Command", ^R^X, and a .spec
|
|
file is now included in the distribution. There are
|
|
cleanups in the usage code, fixes for regex parsing, the
|
|
file browser, the NO_CONVERT auto-detect, indented
|
|
justification, the internal spell checker, and a serious
|
|
bug where reading a file of 0 lines would hang nano.
|
|
Also, the "show position" code now shows the starting
|
|
column as 1 instead of 0. Have fun!
|
|
|
|
2002.03.05 - GNU nano 1.1.7 "let's change everything and see what breaks"
|
|
is released. New features include the new flags
|
|
-N, --noconvert (to stop any file format conversion) and
|
|
-Q, --quotestr (for the new quoted text justification),
|
|
a new tempnam() implementation to avoid silly warnings,
|
|
DOS and Mac file options in the Write File dialog,
|
|
multiple save files (file.1) for abnormal exits,
|
|
^C now showing column as well as character position, and
|
|
multibuffer allowing duplicate files, even unnamed ones.
|
|
Also, the static shortcut and toggle lengths are history,
|
|
nano now reads SYSCONFDIR/nanorc if rc file support is
|
|
enabled, and nano is now built with (and for rebuilding
|
|
requires) autoconf 2.5.
|
|
This release also includes fixes for some memory
|
|
leaks, detecting DOS and Mac file format, justification,
|
|
suspending keys, search & replace under various
|
|
conditions, variable width for shortcuts, and the usual
|
|
ton of translation updates.
|
|
|
|
2002.01.25 - GNU nano 1.1.6 is released. Lots of new features in this
|
|
release. New Meta-keys were added as alternates for
|
|
control sequences: Meta-A for the marker key (^^), and
|
|
Meta-G for the 'goto dir' key in the file browser (^_).
|
|
The color syntax highlighting now supports multiple
|
|
lines via start="regex" end="regex" syntax, and the
|
|
.nanorc regex format itself has changed. Also, the
|
|
gettext code was upgraded to version 0.10.40, and nano
|
|
will now display a message if only occurrence of a given
|
|
search exists.
|
|
For bugfixes, there are fixes for spelling,
|
|
stray newlines in the usage() function, suspend issues
|
|
with tcsh, auto-indent and wrapping clashes, ugly code
|
|
in rcfile.c, global variable compatibility with AIX.
|
|
There are also oodles of translation updates. Have fun
|
|
with it.
|
|
|
|
2002.01.05 - GNU nano 1.1.5 is out. The main new feature in this
|
|
release is the changed behavior of the keypad. Nano
|
|
now does the Right Thing and uses keypad() by default.
|
|
If you wish to use the keypad arrow keys in certain
|
|
terminals, you may use the -K or --keypad flag to get
|
|
the old behavior. Users of other OSes should see better
|
|
handling of their non-keypad keys in this release.
|
|
Other changes include more Hurd fixes, fixes parsing the
|
|
.nanorc, display fixes for the color syntax highlighting,
|
|
gettext stabilization and many translation updates.
|
|
This is almost like a stable release, much like in the
|
|
0.9.x series when every other release was the most stable
|
|
one :) Have fun!
|
|
|
|
2001.12.11 - GNU nano 1.1.4 is released. This release contains
|
|
rudimentary color syntax support (but it's still
|
|
broken), compatibility fixes for the Hurd and FreeBSD,
|
|
spell checker and wrapping fixes, and more. It seems
|
|
that the amount of interest in the code is inversely
|
|
proportional to the amount of time since last release,
|
|
so it's time to show the world all the changes since
|
|
1.1.3 ;) Have fun with it!
|
|
|
|
2001.10.26 - GNU nano 1.1.3 is released. As far as new features go,
|
|
the help system is now available for all functions in
|
|
the editor. Also, nano will now also print a message on
|
|
the status bar when it automatically converts a file
|
|
from Mac or DOS format, and trying to load a file that
|
|
has already been loaded in multibuffer mode will now
|
|
also cause an error message. There is now a "goto
|
|
previous word" which you can use by hitting Meta-Space
|
|
Bar.
|
|
As for fixes, a SEVERE bug in the null_at code
|
|
which discarded the memory address of reallocated memory
|
|
has been fixed. This is probably the biggest bug fix in
|
|
well over the last year of development. There are also
|
|
some display fixes for when the screen shouldn't center
|
|
itself on cut or uncut text. Also, the comments in the
|
|
header files incorrectly said that nano was distributed
|
|
under version 1 of the GPL when the accompanying license
|
|
was the GPLv2.
|
|
If you're using nano-1.1, it is highly
|
|
recommended you upgrade to this release. If using 1.0,
|
|
wait for version 1.0.6 which should be available early
|
|
next week. Enjoy!
|
|
|
|
2001.10.03 - GNU nano 1.1.2 is out there. Many new features in this
|
|
release, including support for auto-converting from DOS
|
|
and Mac formatted files, as well as toggles for writing
|
|
out files in these formats. Pico's -o flag has been
|
|
implemented, as has some new smooth scrolling code
|
|
(which can be used in place of the default jerky
|
|
scrolling behavior). Also, there is now a "find
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matching bracket/brace/etc" feature (Meta-]). The
|
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.nanorc file now accepts setting the tabsize, and the
|
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help text at the bottom of the editor is now better
|
|
spaced out in the search/replace prompts. There are
|
|
also the usual helping of bugfixes, translation updates
|
|
and, surely a bug or two. You better get ready!
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|
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2001.07.28 - GNU nano 1.1.1 is released. Our second 1.1 unstable
|
|
release features many bugfixes from the initial release,
|
|
in particular fixes for the multibuffer code, and
|
|
various compiler macro fixes. The shortcut lists for
|
|
the search and replace prompts are a little more logical
|
|
(with cancel the last option again), and the included
|
|
gettext was re-downgraded to 0.10.35 due to problems on
|
|
the PPC platform. GNU nano now includes its own aclocal
|
|
macros in the m4/ directory to allow rebuilding the
|
|
configure script to work on platforms regardless of
|
|
their gettext version.
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|
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2001.07.15 - GNU nano 1.1.0 is released. This is the first release
|
|
in the 1.1.x unstable series of GNU nano. It
|
|
incorporates all changes up to the 1.0.3 release, and
|
|
also includes many many new features, including
|
|
appending to as well as overwriting files, writing
|
|
marked text to a separate file, dynamic wrap length,
|
|
lots more compatibility with Pico, and new optional
|
|
features like .nanorc file support and multiple file
|
|
buffers! All in all, plenty of new stuff that's sure to
|
|
introduce lots of bugs ;-) Have fun with it, but be
|
|
careful, unstable means unstable.
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|
|
|
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2001.07.01 - GNU nano 1.0.3 is the "mutt" release. This release
|
|
features oodles of bug fixes with cutting text,
|
|
especially with the -k (cut to end) option. There is
|
|
also a new suspend handler which should make nano play
|
|
better with mutt (the code for which came from mutt
|
|
itself; many many thanks to Jordi Mallach and Tom Lear
|
|
for working late into the night fixing this). Nano now
|
|
also features mutt's case insensitive string compare
|
|
function for more speed and less memory usage. Two new
|
|
translations are included, Ukrainian and Russian.
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|
|
|
2001.05.12 - GNU nano 1.0.2 is the "just the bugfixes ma'am" release.
|
|
The most noticeable fixes are for display errors using
|
|
page up/down with the marker code, and view mode (-v)
|
|
not stopping the replace function. Other fixes include
|
|
being able to use the arrow keys while holding down the
|
|
ctrl key in certain TERMs, and there are many
|
|
documentation updates and spelling tweaks. We also have
|
|
a new Galician translation (provided by Jacobo Tarrío).
|
|
Have fun with it!
|
|
|
|
2001.04.06 - GNU nano 1.0.1 is out there. The only new feature is a
|
|
configure option for those who want to disable all word
|
|
wrapping from nano, --disable-wrapping. Bug fixes this
|
|
release include some bugs with autoconf and i18n, and
|
|
several fixes in the file browser including a segfault
|
|
on Solaris, symlinks to directories now work properly,
|
|
and nano now sorts files case insensitively like Pilot.
|
|
Have fun with it.
|
|
|
|
2001.03.22 - GNU Nano 1.0 is released! The autoindent wrapping bug
|
|
has been fixed, as well as a strange bug when using Pico
|
|
mode and regex search. There have also been some minor
|
|
spelling and documentation updates. As stated on the
|
|
website, there are currently no known bugs with nano,
|
|
but some will pop up eventually and they will be
|
|
addressed in subsequent releases. We hope you enjoy
|
|
this first stable release of nano, and as always,
|
|
feedback is welcome! <nano@nano-editor.org>
|
|
|
|
|
|
2001.02.19 - Nano 0.9.99pre3 brings a lot of changes! The most important
|
|
being that nano is now officially a GNU program. Some
|
|
changes have been made for GNU compatibility (like in the
|
|
default list of shortcuts: "^G Get Help" is now listed
|
|
and "^_ Goto Line" is not). The Yes/No/All keys have
|
|
finally been internationalized also. All in all, quite
|
|
a few changes, considering nano is supposed to be in
|
|
a code freeze. But there are the usual helping of
|
|
bugfixes, a nasty bug when cutting text in -k mode and
|
|
some compatibility issues with older ncurses libraries
|
|
have also been fixed. All in all, a lot to see.
|
|
|
|
2001.01.31 - Nano 0.9.99pre2 is released. Not surprisingly, all that
|
|
is new is bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes. There were a
|
|
few cleanups in unneeded global variables and duplicate
|
|
functions, but most is just fixing. Specifically, there
|
|
is now a preliminary (read: needs testing) fix for
|
|
resizing the editor in any mode other than normal edit
|
|
mode. Other fixes include some more tab completion
|
|
segfaults, and a silly segfault that occurred when
|
|
successfully writing a file on the 2nd try (i.e. after
|
|
an initial write error). Slowly but surely, on toward
|
|
1.0 we travel.
|
|
|
|
2001.01.17 - Nano 0.9.99pre1 is released. This is the first pre-1.0
|
|
release of nano, and is also the first release since the
|
|
code freeze for nano 1.0. Don't expect (or request) any
|
|
new features between now and nano 1.0, only bugfixes,
|
|
optimizations and doc/translation updates. For fixes, a
|
|
nasty segfault when trying to insert one's home directory
|
|
(~), some checks for the NumLock key making the keypad go
|
|
awry, window size sanity checks, many autoconf fixes, and
|
|
support for the KDE Konsole keypad layout. Have fun.
|
|
|
|
2001.01.07 - Nano 0.9.25 is the "Just one more feature I swear!"
|
|
release. It includes one new feature that Pico has had
|
|
forever, a built-in file browser. Since not everyone
|
|
may want this option, there is a --disable-browser
|
|
option to the configure script as well. Other changes
|
|
include slightly different keypad handling, and a bugfix
|
|
for crashes when tab completion in certain instances.
|
|
Have fun and Happy New Year!
|
|
|
|
2000.12.18 - Nano 0.9.24 is released. This version contains the last
|
|
of the security fixes for writing files, as well as for
|
|
a nasty segfault when nano is unable to open a file for
|
|
reading, among other fixes. Nano now also cowardly
|
|
refuses to open device files, to stop silly things like
|
|
trying to open /dev/zero. New features include being
|
|
able to use Meta-Meta-<key> as Control-<key>, better
|
|
HURD support, and some new flags have been added for
|
|
Pico compatibility. Upgrading to this version is highly
|
|
recommended.
|
|
|
|
2000.12.08 - Nano 0.9.23 is the "race conditions bite" release. The
|
|
main reason for this release is the less-than-optimal
|
|
fix for the security issue in nano with following
|
|
symbolic links. Hopefully this will fix the problem
|
|
permanently. The --nofollow option also works again
|
|
for those who are real security nuts. There are also
|
|
some display and search fixes, and the --disable-spell
|
|
function was renamed to --disable-speller to be in line
|
|
with nano and Pico's "speller" term.
|
|
|
|
2000.12.02 - Nano 0.9.22 is released, with many more changes and
|
|
additions than imaginable. The most important change is
|
|
a fix for unsafe handling of symbolic links which could
|
|
lead to symlink attacks if nano were to exit because of
|
|
an error or signal. Also there are better checks when
|
|
saving files.
|
|
As for new features, username tab completion is now
|
|
working well, the internal spell checker code has been
|
|
tweaked, you can now unjustify if you don't like how the
|
|
justify formatted your text, and there are more options
|
|
for configure, including --disable-spell and
|
|
--disable-justify and --enable-extra (for those who like
|
|
surprises). All in all, a whole lot of changes in a
|
|
little over a week.
|
|
|
|
2000.11.23 - Happy Thanksgiving! Nano 0.9.21 is our "last version was
|
|
a big turkey" release. It fixes several bugs introduced
|
|
by the previous version, as well as a few long-standing
|
|
display bugs. All 0.9.20 users are strongly encouraged
|
|
to upgrade to this release.
|
|
|
|
2000.11.18 - Nano 0.9.20 is finally out the door. Probably the biggest
|
|
change is the brand new way nano displays previous search
|
|
and replace strings (they are now editable!) This is a
|
|
break from Pico's (inconsistent) interface, so if you
|
|
don't like the new way, "Pico" mode (-p on the command
|
|
line or Meta-P within nano) still works the "old" way.
|
|
Other new features include being able to deal with
|
|
search strings of any length, a new internal spell feature
|
|
(courtesy of Mr. Rocco Corsi) and tab completion when
|
|
reading in or writing out files! There's also the usual
|
|
billion or so bug fixes. Feedback on this release is
|
|
welcome because so much has changed, especially with the
|
|
previous string display in search and replace. Email
|
|
-> nano@nano-editor.org <-. If you like something,
|
|
don't like something, or just want to order a pizza,
|
|
let us know!
|
|
|
|
2000.10.02 - Nano 0.9.19 is the "Chris is getting married in less than
|
|
a week and needs a distraction" release. There are only
|
|
a few actual code changes, mainly portability and
|
|
compiler warning fixes. Nano now also supports
|
|
PDCurses, which enables easily-built nano executables
|
|
for Windows NT and 95/98 for the brave. The official
|
|
nano site has changed (again) as well, check out
|
|
www.nano-editor.org for all the latest nano schtuff.
|
|
|
|
2000.09.18 - Nano 0.9.18 is unleashed. It has some new keyboard
|
|
handling code, Cygwin support out of the box, and a more
|
|
portable handler for the NOHELP toggle. There is also a
|
|
fix for a somewhat serious bug whereby trying to insert
|
|
a directory instead of a normal file would destroy the
|
|
contents of the editor. A must-see. Four stars.
|
|
|
|
2000.09.04 - Nano 0.9.17, the Labor Day release, is released after a
|
|
quiet spell (almost an entire month since last release!)
|
|
New features include better (not yet perfect) binary
|
|
display support and toggle support for most of the
|
|
program flags (M-c, M-i, M-z, M-x, M-p, M-w, M-m, M-k
|
|
and M-e for -c, -i, -z, -x, -p, -w, -m, -k, and -R).
|
|
|
|
2000.08.09 - Nano 0.9.16, after some struggling, is released. This
|
|
release should fix a few of the holes that 0.9.15 dug.
|
|
The "cutting text on the first line" bug is fixed, as is
|
|
the "cutting text on the last line" bug. Nice symmetry
|
|
there huh? Also the --tabsize argument should now work
|
|
as well as by using -T.
|
|
|
|
2000.08.03 - Nano 0.9.15 is the "I can't think of a release description"
|
|
release. There are the usual gala of display bugfixes,
|
|
a fix for the nasty bug in -k mode that could create
|
|
a loop in the file being edited, and some other code
|
|
cleanup. Also, the -T option should now work regardless
|
|
of the curses library used. Yay.
|
|
|
|
2000.07.27 - Nano 0.9.14 is officially the "13 is so unlucky it should
|
|
be skipped as a version number" release. One typo caused
|
|
unending problems (calling nano with either -t or -k
|
|
caused both flags to be used). The -k code is now also
|
|
closer in functionality to Pico's -k mode; please note
|
|
that this code is not finished yet. Working on this code
|
|
has made me realize that there is not enough abstraction
|
|
in the code, and I will be working on that for the next
|
|
release. Until then, have fun with this version.
|
|
|
|
2000.07.23 - Nano 0.9.13 has a few new bits and bobs, most notably the
|
|
-k option from Pico (cut to end of line). The majority
|
|
of changes in this release are bugfixes, however,
|
|
including the usual display fixes and fixes for writing
|
|
to symbolic links and unwritable files. Barring any
|
|
other major changes, this should be the feature set for
|
|
nano 1.0, whenever it might be released =-)
|
|
|
|
2000.07.07 - Nano 0.9.12 (the "lucky day" release) is bursting with
|
|
new features, bug fixes, and yummy fruit flavor. For
|
|
changes, the alternate replace keystroke ^W^T is now
|
|
^W^R to be compatible with later versions of Pico. ^W^T
|
|
is now goto line, again for Pico compatibility. As for
|
|
new features, the wonderful/hated magic line code has
|
|
returned with a vengeance! Also, regular expression
|
|
searches and replaces have been incorporated via the -R
|
|
flag. And, of course, there are the usual helping of
|
|
display and other bug fixes to top it all off.
|
|
|
|
2000.06.20 - Nano 0.9.11 presents drastic rewrites of the most buggy
|
|
routines in the program, specifically the wrapping code
|
|
and almost all of the display routines. There are many
|
|
improvements and bugfixes to the display subsystem in
|
|
general, but there may be bugs lurking yet. Also, after
|
|
many MANY requests, there is now an option to set the
|
|
displayed tab width (-T, --tabsize). Note that this
|
|
function just changes the way tabs LOOK in the editor,
|
|
the tabs you input are still real tabs of normal width
|
|
(usually 8 characters); nano just makes them look
|
|
smaller or bigger while in the editor. New in the
|
|
translation department is an Indonesian translation
|
|
(id).
|
|
|
|
2000.06.06 - Nano 0.9.10 is primarily a bugfix for the loss of SIGINT
|
|
when using "run and terminate" flags (for example, --help).
|
|
There are also some minor documentation updates. This
|
|
version of nano is the most stable in quite some time,
|
|
and is likely to be the most stable for awhile. Users
|
|
are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
|
|
|
|
2000.05.31 - Nano 0.9.9 introduces much better working i18n support,
|
|
more portability, and a ton of bugfixes. While nano is
|
|
not likely anywhere near 1.0 in terms of code quality,
|
|
it gets a quantum leap closer with this release.
|
|
|
|
2000.05.18 - Nano 0.9.8 (the 'what broke now?' release) should fix
|
|
the resize crash people have been experiencing. It also
|
|
offers a new input method that should allow nano to do
|
|
things the right way (like ^S, ^Q, custom suspend keys)
|
|
and hopefully won't break with non-US keyboards. There
|
|
are also the obligatory display fixes and speedups.
|
|
Have fun with it.
|
|
|
|
2000.05.14 - Nano 0.9.7 (the Mother's Day release) continues in the
|
|
long line of display fixes, and also fixes the broken
|
|
symlink behavior (i.e. symlinks weren't being followed
|
|
by default). Hopefully all major bugs can be worked out
|
|
soon and we can have a 1.0 release before the end of the
|
|
year, but who knows.
|
|
|
|
2000.05.08 - Nano 0.9.6 cleans up a lot of the display bugs that 0.9.5
|
|
uncovered. There are improvements (and some remaining
|
|
segfaults) in the wrapping code, and even more display
|
|
optimizations. I would still say 0.9.4 or 0.9.2 are the
|
|
most stable versions of nano to date, but this one may
|
|
not be too bad =-)
|
|
|
|
2000.05.01 - Nano 0.9.5 attempts to speed up the display of text to be
|
|
at least somewhat reasonable. Much code profiling has been
|
|
done to reduce the ridiculous number of redundant display
|
|
updates. This will probably expose a lot of bugs that can
|
|
then be fixed, so this release is probably not for the faint
|
|
of heart. For anyone curious, I would call nano 0.9.2 the
|
|
most stable version recently, so use that if you're not
|
|
particularly concerned with being on the bleeding edge.
|
|
|
|
2000.04.25 - Nano 0.9.4 fixes some problems in 0.9.3 with the last
|
|
line code and related segfaults. It now also has much
|
|
better handling for 8-bit characters. The --enable-tiny
|
|
code also produces a smaller executable.
|
|
|
|
2000.04.19 - Nano 0.9.3 is officially the "Micro$oft" release. It
|
|
underscores the recent problem of bugfixes introducing
|
|
more bugs than they fix. The most important change to
|
|
this version of nano is the removal of the "magic line".
|
|
You will no longer see a blank line at the end of the
|
|
file. If you want a new line at the end of your file,
|
|
you'll have to hit enter to get one.
|
|
|
|
NOTE: THIS BREAKS COMPATIBILITY WITH PICO.
|
|
Unfortunately, this feature has been causing many many
|
|
problems with nano so it is being removed for the time
|
|
being, and perhaps indefinitely.
|
|
|
|
Other new stuff includes an --enable-tiny option to make
|
|
nano ultra small (disabling i18n, detailed help and the
|
|
marker and mouse code), and --with-slang to use the
|
|
slang libraries instead of ncurses.
|
|
|
|
2000.04.15 - Nano 0.9.2 just fixes the serious segfault problem if
|
|
nano is invoked any way other than using the absolute
|
|
path. The bug was in the new code for checking whether
|
|
nano is invoked as 'pico'.
|
|
|
|
2000.04.14 - Nano 0.9.1 has some more Pico compatibility built-in. The
|
|
option to switch to/from Search and Search/Replace (^T)
|
|
is now available, and nano now displays the more
|
|
Pico-like shortcut list when invoked as 'pico' (i.e. if
|
|
'pico' is a symlink to nano). There is an important
|
|
change to the handling of symbolic links as well. Now,
|
|
nano does the "correct" thing and automatically writes
|
|
to the object of the symlink, rather than replace the
|
|
symlink with the updated file. This behavior is still
|
|
available with the --nofollow or -l flags.
|
|
Other new things include a fix for the infamous
|
|
"recursive replace" bug, and more bugfixes in the
|
|
wrapping code.
|
|
|
|
2000.04.07 - Nano 0.9.0 has some updates, new language support and
|
|
a much better refresh setup (It's still not great,
|
|
but...) There should also be more stability editing
|
|
long lines, as there was a stupid mistake in the
|
|
update_line call. Silly me =)
|
|
|
|
2000.03.22 - Nano 0.8.9 is basically just a bugfix release of 0.8.8
|
|
to reflect the current stagnant status of the project.
|
|
Most things work, the rest doesn't doesn't work because
|
|
(a) I can't fix it or I would have already done so, and
|
|
(b) the amount of patches I'm receiving right now is
|
|
quite negligible. Fortunately, this release marks the
|
|
first release since I have acquired ownership of the
|
|
nano pages on SourceForge. Here's hoping SF will get us
|
|
some more visibility, translators and patches.
|
|
|
|
2000.03.12 - After a hiatus, I have finally moved (not unpacked though)
|
|
to my new home into Albany. Thus I should now have more
|
|
time to work on nano. Nano 0.8.8, the "dear god what
|
|
broke this time?" release, incorporates patches for both
|
|
i18n and many bugfixes. It is VERY likely something
|
|
broke this version, and it's likely I didn't even apply
|
|
the i18n stuff properly, so *it* may not even work.
|
|
|
|
I would like to announce that I'm going to need
|
|
translations soonish, so if you are fluent in other
|
|
languages than English (or even better, if your native
|
|
language is not English) and you would like to submit a
|
|
translation file to me, please feel free to do so. If
|
|
you do, I will list your name and email in the AUTHORS
|
|
file as the maintainer of the .po file, and from then on
|
|
it is yours to take care of and keep up to date.
|
|
|
|
2000.03.01 - Well, to continue my trend of going back on my previous
|
|
release's comments, nano 0.8.7 is released. The crashing
|
|
behavior was still occurring, and this most recent fix
|
|
also fixes some other wrapping problems, so here you go.
|
|
There may be another release soon, there may not be, is
|
|
that vague enough? =)
|
|
|
|
2000.02.25 - More minor bugfixes in 0.8.6, the bizarre behavior at the
|
|
end of a page has ceased, thankfully. I'm also moving
|
|
next weekend, so don't be shocked if you don't see a new
|
|
version of nano next week =-)
|
|
|
|
2000.02.11 - Okay, here we go again. Aside from a few minor fixes
|
|
and some under-the-hood changes, you won't notice much
|
|
different in this version of nano. I haven't gotten
|
|
much feedback on the help feature, is it simply amazing
|
|
or does no one care? Write and let me know! =)
|
|
|
|
2000.02.08 - Nano 0.8.3 marks the first time in a long time that there
|
|
has been more than three days since the last release.
|
|
New features include an initial help mode (YAY!),
|
|
hopefully much more support for i18n out of the box, and
|
|
a flag for more Pico compatibility in the shortcut lists
|
|
displayed. This release also marks the new nano
|
|
distribution site, http://www.asty.org/nano and email
|
|
address nano@asty.org for bugs, etc.
|
|
|
|
2000.02.02 - Okay, I hate to go back on what I said in the last release,
|
|
but I may be changing jobs very soon. I will release version
|
|
0.8.2 as is (no i18n, no help menu (yet)). I expect things
|
|
to settle down by the end of next week, and then I can try to
|
|
start on the i18n support and help menu; look for these new
|
|
features in version 0.8.5 to 0.9.0.
|
|
|
|
2000.01.28 - Nano 0.8.1 marks our first official step toward
|
|
internationalization (i18n) and the help system (^G).
|
|
I will be merging in Jordi's patches for initial i18n
|
|
in the next version, and will implement the help system
|
|
with i18n built into it shortly after that. Please
|
|
don't hesitate to send bug reports, as long as you're
|
|
sure the fault lies with nano =-).
|
|
|
|
2000.01.25 - Nano 0.8.0 is officially the "let's try and be at least
|
|
a little portable, mmmmkay?" release. There are many
|
|
portability checks and fixes; many thanks to Andy Kahn
|
|
for his patches. I removed the broken do_spell behavior
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with the 'spell' program; for now, we only try to call
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'ispell' until I write a better method to handle the
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output of the normal 'spell' command.
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2000.01.24 - Nano 0.7.9 features many new features. Among them are a
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new autoindent feature (-i, --autoindent), tempfile flag
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like Pico's -t flag (-t, --tempfile), and preliminary
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spelling program support. The spelling function tries to
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run 'spell' and then 'ispell' in that order, but you can
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specify another spelling program with -s or --speller.
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2000.01.17 - Nano 0.7.7 is officially the "way too much stuff changed
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this release" release. It's the busy time at work for me,
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so please don't get offended if your patch doesn't get
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included in the next immediate version of nano. I'm sure
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all the changes in this release will cause a few bugs, so
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0.7.8 will primarily be about fixing those bugs.
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Things added this release include resizability (kinda),
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new -x and -c flags (see nano -h for help), long command
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line flag support, and the usual array of bugfixes.
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2000.01.15 - Nano 0.7.6 is officially the "lightning" release.
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It now loads large files much faster than previous
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versions, and is even much faster than Pico or vi
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in some rather rudimentary tests. Many thanks to
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Adam Rogoyski for the read_byte patch!
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2000.01.09 - As of this version (0.7.4), TIP has officially
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been renamed to nano. The new homepage is at
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http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/astyanax/nano.
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Please update your bookmarks, tell your friends,
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and all that jazz.
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