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[Info-nano] [ANNOUNCE] nano-4.0 is released
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Benno Schulenberg |
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[Info-nano] [ANNOUNCE] nano-4.0 is released |
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Sun, 24 Mar 2019 13:34:27 +0100 |
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2019.03.24 - GNU nano 4.0 "Thy Rope of Sands"
• An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped.
• Smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default.
• A newline character is no longer automatically added at end of buffer.
• The line below the title bar is by default part of the editing space.
• Option --breaklonglines (-b) turns automatic hard-wrapping back on.
• Option --jumpyscrolling (-j) gives the chunky, half-screen scrolling.
• Option --finalnewline (-f) brings back the automatic newline at EOF.
• Option --emptyline (-e) leaves the line below the title bar unused.
• <Alt+Up> and <Alt+Down> now do a linewise scroll instead of a findnext.
• Any number of justifications can be undone (like all other operations).
• When marked text is justified, it becomes a single, separate paragraph.
• Option --guidestripe=<number> draws a vertical bar at the given column.
• Option --fill=<number> no longer turns on automatic hard-wrapping.
• When a line continues offscreen, it now ends with a highlighted ">".
• The halfs of a split two-column character are shown as "[" and "]".
• A line now scrolls horizontally one column earlier.
• The bindable functions 'cutwordleft' and 'cutwordright' were renamed
to 'chopwordleft' and 'chopwordright' as they don't use the cutbuffer.
• The paragraph-jumping functions were moved from Search to Go-to-Line.
• Option --rebinddelete is able to compensate for more misbindings.
• Options --morespace and --smooth are obsolete and thus ignored.
• The --disable-wrapping-as-root configure option was removed.
GNU nano is a simple and easy-to-use editor for on the terminal.
https://nano-editor.org/
A concise overview of nano's shortcut keystrokes:
https://nano-editor.org/cheatsheet.html
The tarball and its signature are here:
https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-4.0.tar.xz
https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-4.0.tar.xz.asc
Specific bugs that were fixed in this release:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44630 (cryptic configure error)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46900 (undoable justifications [request])
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53785 (removal of deprecated options)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55054 (justifiable marked region [request])
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55067 (no hard-wrapping by default [request])
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55129 (some old URLs in the FAQ)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55169 (crashed upon a bad quoting regex)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55207 (all systems seem to know \< and \>)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55247 (no <Backspace> on FreeBSD)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55303 (-K together with -m entered junk)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55304 (two unclear error messages)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55305 (undoing a cut could leave a newline)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55315 (a guiding margin line [request])
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55330 (a noop ^K did add an undo item)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55336 ("Esc Esc [" was bindable)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55352 (wrong file size after redoing deletion)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55423 (invalid backup directory was accepted)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55442 ("Esc Meta-letter" was misinterpreted)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55535 (switching buffer canceled a region)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55571 (highlight the ">" character [request])
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55620 (mishandled two-column characters)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55638 (two-column characters pushed off row)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55655 (messed-up help lines in file browser)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55657 (differentiate split from continuation)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55679 (more mishandled two-column characters)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55716 (don't show placeholder under cursor)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55759 (zero-width character pushed stuff off)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55792 (using multiple nanos could crash one)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55912 (reading from '-' lamed modified keys)
Changes between v3.2 and v4.0:
------------------------------
David Lawrence Ramsey (34):
display: correctly trim an overshooting character from a prompt answer
display: correct the logic for making room for the ">" character
display: properly handle double-width characters when spotlighting
display: properly trim double-width characters at the edit window's edge
display: show the guide stripe for double-width/multi-byte characters
docs: remove references to not being able to undo justifications
input: properly handle <Escape>s followed by a shifted Meta+letter
justify: handle the leading part when justifying a marked region
justify: initialize a variable before making use of its value
justify: put a mid-line marked region onto separate lines
justify: when justifying a marked region, strip whitespace after the lead
moving: make the generic paragraph movement functions work on any buffer
new feature: marked text gets justified into a single, new paragraph
options: exit on a bad quoting regex, instead of crashing later
text: hook the new justify mechanism up to the undo system
text: make do_justify() use the cutbuffer
text: make find_paragraph() work on any buffer
text: make justify_format() work on any buffer
text: make justify_paragraph() work on any buffer
text: prepare to make find_paragraph() work on any buffer
text: properly check again for no paragraphs after the current line
text: remove the old unjustify mechanism, to prepare for the new justify
tweaks: adapt find_paragraph()/justify_paragraph() for multiple quotes
tweaks: adjust indentation after the previous commit
tweaks: adjust some indentation after the previous change
tweaks: normalize the indentation, and remove unneeded braces
tweaks: remove unnecessary variable initializations
tweaks: rename a variable, to prepare for its new role
tweaks: split justify_paragraph() into three separate functions
tweaks: swap the names of the variables 'wrap_at' and 'fill'
tweaks: use proper variable types in the word-completion functions
undo: after undoing a cut, don't remove the magicline if we're on it
undo: set and check 'xflags' in a bitwise manner
undo: when undoing a cut, remove also the magicline if it added one
Brand Huntsman (1):
history: use an unfreed 'position_history' to avoid a possible crash
Benno Schulenberg (193):
bindings: change the action of <Alt+Up>/<Alt+Down> to 'scroll linewise'
bindings: hard-bind ASCII code 0x08 (BS) to the backspace function
bindings: make the normal scrolling keystrokes work also in help viewer
bindings: provide usable shortcuts for prevword/nextword in tiny version
bindings: rename 'cutwordleft' to 'chopwordleft', and similar for right
browser, help: make <Bsp> page up also when terminfo mismatches terminal
browser: say "Close" instead of "Exit" for the ^X shortcut
browser: show the ^G item again in the help lines
build: ensure that also new PO files are committed to git
build: eradicate the --disable-wrapping-as-root configure option
build: fix compilation when configured with --disable-utf8
build: stop using the --disable-wrapping-as-root configure option
build: use wget over https (instead of plain rsync) to fetch PO files
build: verify that 'pkg.m4' is available when building from git
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.0 release
copyright: update the years for significantly changed files
copyright: update the years for the FSF
copyright: update the years for the FSF in the documentation too
cutting: cover the corner cases where cut commands do not cut anything
cutting: give feedback when otherwise nothing happens
cutting: when ^K does not actually cut anything, do not add an undo item
display: account for horizontal scrolling when drawing the guide stripe
display: account for zero-width characters when reserving space for '>'
display: change the "$" continuation character to ">" and "<"
display: dot the stripe when it's in the last column, to defeat a VTE bug
display: ensure that spotlighted text is not treated as a prompt answer
display: highlight the ">"/"<" continuation characters in reverse video
display: represent half of a double-width character with "[" and "]"
display: scroll horizontally one column earlier
display: show "[" for half of two-column character also when softwrapping
display: show it in title bar when starting up in restricted mode
display: use non-breaking space instead of dot for VTE-bug workaround
docs: add notes to draw attention to the changed defaults
docs: adjust and extend the Pico-compatibility section in the manual
docs: adjust for the enhancement of the default quoting regex
docs: correct the descriptions of 'speller' and 'linter' functions
docs: deprecate the use of morespace, smooth, nonewlines, and nowrap
docs: describe breaklonglines, emptyline, finalnewline, jumpyscrolling
docs: describe the four new options (-b, -f, -j, -e)
docs: describe the new options -J, --guidestripe, and 'set stripecolor'
docs: harmonize the style of bindable-function descriptions
docs: mention nano's major features directly instead of referring
docs: mention that 'cutwordleft' is bound to <Shift+Ctrl+Delete>
docs: mention that --morespace and --smooth are obsolete and ignored
docs: mention that 'quotestr' enables the rewrapping of comment blocks
docs: mention three features in their proper place
docs: remove from the FAQ some items that are no longer relevant
docs: remove the mentioning of --disable-wrapping-as-root from the FAQ
docs: reword and reshuffle the description of --rawsequences
docs: say that --rebinddelete can correct both <Backspace> and <Delete>
docs: stop implying that nano wants to be fully compatible with Pico
docs: stop saying that --fill switches on automatic hard-wrapping
docs: suggest a setting for 'stripecolor' in the sample nanorc
docs: update the links in the FAQ to the mailing-list info pages
feedback: complete the removal of some superfluous words
feedback: make two error messages better match the option
feedback: remove some superfluous words from Undid/Redid messages
files: retain a Shift-selected region when switching between buffers
gnulib: update to its current upstream state
help, docs: say "Delete" when things don't go into the cutbuffer
help: don't advertise ^S and ^Q when --preserve is used
help: don't list the obsoleted -O and -S options in the --help output
help: don't list the unbound <Alt+Up> and <Alt+Down> in the tiny version
help: in the tiny version, don't list an option that is the default
help: reword the description of ^U to avoid the impression of "Undo"
help: reword the tags for deleting a word left and right
justify: correctly detect when we've reached end of buffer
justify: extend the quoting regex, to cover more types of comments
justify: move the check for a bad quoting regex to a better place
menus: don't show ^S and ^Q in the help lines in the tiny version
menus: move the paragraph-jumping functions from Search to Goto-Line
menus: put the ^T toggle in Search in the same position as in Goto-Line
menus: remove the ^Y and ^V shortcuts from the Search menus
new feature: option --guidestripe that shows a vertical guiding bar
options: actually rename --rebindkeypad to --rawsequences (-K)
options: add -b, --breaklonglines, the counterpart of --nowrap
options: add -e, --emptyline, the counterpart of --morespace
options: add -f, --finalnewline, the counterpart of --nonewlines
options: add -j, --jumpyscrolling, the counterpart of --smooth
options: disable hard-wrapping and automatic newlines by default
options: let --fill no longer imply automatic hard-wrapping
options: make -d (--rebinddelete) work without -K (--rebindkeypad)
options: make --rawsequences disable --mouse, to prevent entering junk
options: rename long version of -K from --rebindkeypad to --rawsequences
options: stop recognizing and ignoring -b, -e, -f, -j, and -q
options: stop recognizing and mentioning --quiet and 'set quiet'
options: warn when option -O or -S is given, and ignore them
po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
prompt: trim a double-width character at the screen's edge
rcfile: add 'stripecolor' for changing the color of the guiding stripe
rcfile: add the options that correspond to -b, -f, -j, and -e
rcfile, docs: remove deprecated forms of two options and five bindables
rcfile: don't report an error when the globbing pattern matches nothing
rcfile: reject an attempt to bind ^[
rcfile: when a keystroke is rebound, don't bother unbinding it
rcfile: when an old flag is unset, set the corresponding new flag
rcfile: when rebound, DO unbind a keystroke from its earlier function
startup: check again for a Linux console after reading all files
startup: check that a backup directory is valid also when backups are off
startup: improve two error messages by mentioning the invalid operand
syntax: nanorc: stop coloring 'unset fill ...' as if it were valid
syntax: tcl: colorize comments normally, not with a background hue
text: turn the mark off when justifying, to not confuse an undo
tweaks: add a consistency check plus a corresponding warning
tweaks: add an alias for a string variable, so the code makes more sense
tweaks: add deprecation comments to the four superseded options
tweaks: add two comments, and reduce the scope of another variable
tweaks: adjust indentation after previous change, and rename a parameter
tweaks: adjust the indentation after the previous change
tweaks: avoid parsing the same character twice
tweaks: calculate the length of a completion word in a more direct way
tweaks: change do_para_end() to not step beyond end of paragraph
tweaks: condense a comment, and drop two others
tweaks: condense a couple of comments and rewrap a few lines
tweaks: condense a handful of comments
tweaks: condense and correct a comment
tweaks: condense and improve a couple of comments
tweaks: condense and improve a handful of comments, and rewrap two lines
tweaks: condense the logic of find_paragraph()
tweaks: condense two regexes in the Tcl syntax, and add a comment
tweaks: correct a comment typo, and trim a few other comments
tweaks: don't bother executing two functions that are empty
tweaks: don't bother special-casing non-UTF8 when checking for a blank
tweaks: don't bother trying to draw characters beyond the screen's edge
tweaks: don't bother zeroing the x position when doing a full justify
tweaks: don't pass a pointer when a boolean is expected
tweaks: elide a function that is called just once
tweaks: elide an unneeded intermediate variable
tweaks: elide a one-line function that is used just twice
tweaks: elide a parameter -- do the NULL checks in the caller
tweaks: elide a parameter that is always TRUE
tweaks: elide a tiny function by making a variable global
tweaks: elide a variable that is a copy of another
tweaks: elide two unneeded intermediate variables
tweaks: escape hyphens that must be hard hyphens in the man pages
tweaks: exclude the guide-stripe code from the tiny version
tweaks: hard-bind ASCII DEL in a slightly more economical way
tweaks: improve a comment, and add an intermediate variable for clarity
tweaks: improve a comment, to better match the changed code
tweaks: improve and condense some comments, and remove an unneeded one
tweaks: make an assignment only when the option is valid, like elsewhere
tweaks: move declaration of variable that does not need to be global
tweaks: move the character/word-deletion functions to a better location
tweaks: move the check for beginning-of-paragraph to a better place
tweaks: move the checks for git and gettext to a far earlier point
tweaks: reduce a bunch of repetitious comments to their essence
tweaks: reduce the scope of a variable, and rename it
tweaks: reduce the scope of two variables, and rename one of them
tweaks: reduce two parameters to a single one by summing them
tweaks: refer to the magic line as "magic line", not as "magicline"
tweaks: remove a superfluous check for a special case
tweaks: remove a superfluous incrementing and decrementing of a variable
tweaks: remove a variable that is no longer used
tweaks: remove two tag definitions that are no longer needed
tweaks: rename a function for aptness, and two variables for shortness
tweaks: rename a function, to be simpler and more accurate
tweaks: rename and invert a function, to avoid double negatives
tweaks: rename an overlooked variable from a single letter to a word
tweaks: rename a parameter plus a variable, and reshuffle an assignment
tweaks: rename a struct element, to make sense
tweaks: rename a symbol, to match its corresponding option
tweaks: rename a type, to make more sense
tweaks: rename a variable, because it also serves as "last line"
tweaks: rename a variable, elide another, and adjust two comments
tweaks: rename a variable, to be more distinct
tweaks: rename four functions, to make more sense
tweaks: rename some variables from a single letter to meaningful word
tweaks: rename some variables, to match others that have the same task
tweaks: rename three functions and two symbols, to match the new wording
tweaks: rename three variables, and reshuffle two declarations
tweaks: rename two parameters to be more descriptive
tweaks: rename two variables, to be less confusing
tweaks: rename two variables, to be more descriptive
tweaks: rename two variables, to indicate better what they mean
tweaks: renumber some FAQ items, to compensate for the deleted ones
tweaks: reorder some ifs, to reduce the average number of comparisons
tweaks: reshuffle a bit of code, to have the exit point near the end
tweaks: reshuffle a few lines, and condense some comments
tweaks: reshuffle and frob a couple of comments, and reindent two lines
tweaks: reshuffle some code, to require two fewer ifs
tweaks: reword the description of the disadvantages of Pico
tweaks: rewrap a line and improve a few comments
tweaks: schedule a call of edit_refresh() instead calling it directly
tweaks: slightly indent warnings and errors during the configure phase
tweaks: slightly reword, for esthetics of the resulting Info document
tweaks: split a variable into two, as they have different roles
tweaks: switch from checking MORE_SPACE to checking EMPTY_LINE
tweaks: switch from checking SMOOTH_SCROLL to checking JUMPY_SCROLLING
tweaks: switch from referencing NO_NEWLINES to referencing FINAL_NEWLINE
tweaks: switch from referencing NO_WRAP to referencing BREAK_LONG_LINES
tweaks: word some comments more concisely
undo: set the correct file size for a redo of a character deletion
utils: retire the fixbounds() function -- it is no longer needed
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Benno
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