Log message:
nano: Update to 5.5
2021.01.14 - GNU nano 5.5 "Rebecca"
• Option 'set minibar' makes nano suppress the title bar and instead
show a bar with basic editing information at the bottom: file name
(plus an asterisk when the buffer is modified), the cursor position
(line,column), the character under the cursor (U+xxxx), the flags
that --stateflags normally shows, plus the percentage of the buffer
that is above the cursor.
• With 'set promptcolor' the color combination of the prompt bar can
be changed, to allow contrasting it with the mini bar (which always
has the same color as the title bar).
• Option 'set markmatch' highlights the result of a successful search
by putting the mark at the end of the match, making the match more
visible. It also suppresses the cursor until the next keystroke.
(If you dislike the hiding of the cursor, use 'set showcursor'.)
• The bindable toggle 'nowrap' has been renamed to 'breaklonglines',
to match the corresponding option, like for all other toggles.
• Support for Slang has been removed.
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Log message:
nano: Update to 5.3
Add missing tools. Use NetBSD curses where possible.
2020.10.07 - GNU nano 5.3 "Revolution!"
• Option 'set stateflags' makes nano show the state of auto-indenting,
the mark, hard-wrapping, macro recording, and soft-wrapping in the
title bar. The flags take the place of "Modified", and a modified
buffer is instead indicated by an asterisk (*) after its name.
• Nano no longer by default tries using libmagic to determine the type
of a file (when neither filename nor first line gave a clue), because
in most cases it is a waste of time. It requires using the option
--magic or -! or 'set magic' to make nano try libmagic.
• The color of the indicator can be changed with 'set scrollercolor'.
2020.08.24 - GNU nano 5.2 "Ranrapalca"
• Making certain replacements after a large paste does not crash.
• Hitting a toggle at the Search prompt does not clear the answer.
• Using --positionlog does not complain at the first start.
• A macro containing a Search command will not sometimes fail.
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Log message:
nano: update to 5.1
2020.08.12 - GNU nano 5.1 "Cantabria"
• M-Bsp (Alt+Backspace) deletes a word backwards, like in Bash.
• M-[ has become bindable. (Be careful, though: as it is the
starting combination of many escape sequences, avoid gluing
it together with other keystrokes, like in a macro.)
• With --indicator and --softwrap, the first keystroke in an
empty buffer does not crash.
• Invoking the formatter while text is marked does not crash.
• In UTF-8 locales, an anchor is shown as a diamond.
2020.07.29 - GNU nano 5.0 "Among the fields of barley"
• With --indicator (or -q or 'set indicator') nano will show a kind
of scrollbar on the righthand side of the screen to indicate where
in the buffer the viewport is located and how much it covers.
• With <Alt+Insert> any line can be "tagged" with an anchor, and
<Alt+PageUp> and <Alt+PageDown> will jump to the nearest anchor.
When using line numbers, an anchor is shown as "+" in the margin.
• The Execute Command prompt is now directly accessible from the
main menu (with ^T, replacing the Spell Checker). The Linter,
Formatter, Spell Checker, Full Justification, Suspension, and
Cut-Till-End functions are available in this menu too.
• On terminals that support at least 256 colors, nine new color
names are available: pink, purple, mauve, lagoon, mint, lime,
peach, orange, and latte. These do not have lighter versions.
• For the color names red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta,
white, and black, the prefix 'light' gives a brighter color.
Prefix 'bright' is deprecated, as it means both bold AND light.
• All color names can be preceded with "bold," and/or "italic,"
(in that order) to get a bold and/or italic typeface.
• With --bookstyle (or -O or 'set bookstyle') nano considers any
line that begins with whitespace as the start of a paragraph.
• Refreshing the screen with ^L now works in every menu.
• In the main menu, ^L also centers the line with the cursor.
• Toggling the help lines with M-X now works in all menus except
in the help viewer and the linter.
• At a filename prompt, the first <Tab> lists the possibilities,
and these are listed near the bottom instead of near the top.
• Bindable function 'curpos' has been renamed to 'location'.
• Long option --tempfile has been renamed to --saveonexit.
• Short option -S is now a synonym of --softwrap.
• The New Buffer toggle (M-F) has become non-persistent. Options
--multibuffer and 'set multibuffer' still make it default to on.
• Backup files will retain their group ownership (when possible).
• Data is synced to disk before "... lines written" is shown.
• The raw escape sequences for F13 to F16 are no longer recognized.
• Distro-specific syntaxes, and syntaxes of less common languages,
have been moved down to subdirectory syntax/extra/. The affected
distros and others may wish to move wanted syntaxes one level up.
• Syntaxes for Markdown, Haskell, and Ada were added.
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Log message:
nano: update to 4.8
2020.02.07 - GNU nano 4.8 "Jaška"
• When something is pasted into nano, auto-indentation is suppressed,
and the paste can be undone as a whole with a single M-U.
• When a lock file is encountered during startup, pressing ^C/Cancel
quits nano. (Pressing 'No' just skips the file and continues.)
• Shift+Meta+letter key combos can be bound with 'bind Sh-M-letter'.
Making any such binding dismisses the default behavior of ignoring
Shift for all Meta+letter keystrokes.
• The configuration option --with-slang (to be avoided when possible)
can now be used only together with --enable-tiny.
• A custom nanorc file can be specified on the command line, with
-f filename or --rcfile=filename.
2019.12.23 - GNU nano 4.7 "Havikskruid"
• A <Tab> will indent a marked region only when mark and cursor are
on different lines.
• Two indentations (any mix of tabs and spaces) are considered the
same when they look the same (that is: indent to the same level).
• When using --breaklonglines or ^J, a line will never be broken in
its leading whitespace or quoting.
• The keywords in nanorc files must be in lowercase.
2019.11.29 - GNU nano 4.6 "And don't you eat that yellow snow"
• The 'formatter' command has returned, bound by default to M-F.
It allows running a syntax-specific command on the contents of
the buffer.
• ^T will try to run 'hunspell' before 'spell', because it checks
spellling for the locale's language and understands UTF-8.
• Multiple errors or warnings on startup will no longer slow nano
down but will be indicated on the status bar with trailing dots.
2019.10.04 - GNU nano 4.5 "Košice"
• The new 'tabgives' command allows you to specify per syntax what
the <Tab> key should produce: some spaces, a hard TAB, ...
• The output of --help is properly aligned again for all languages.
• <Tab> will indent a marked region also when M-} has been rebound.
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