[ANNOUNCE] nano-2.8.2 is released

[Benno Schulenberg]

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.


GNU nano is a simple and easy-to-use editor for on the terminal.
  https://nano-editor.org/

The tarball and its signature are here:
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-2.8.2.tar.xz
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-2.8.2.tar.xz.asc


Specific bugs that were fixed in this release:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28994  (searchable help texts, by Rishabh Dave)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50787  (a workaround for miscoloring on Alpine)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50872  (a segfault when resizing in verbatim 
input)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50877  (a "stammer" when switching buffers)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50897  (a warning when compiled without UTF-8)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50899  (an abort when compiled without UTF-8)


Changes between v2.8.1 and v2.8.2:
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Benno Schulenberg (65):
      bindings: allow using <Backspace> to scroll back up in the help viewer
      bindings: allow using '/' to start a search in the help viewer
      bindings: show Home and End in browser help text, instead of M-| and M-?
      browser: make ^End work properly by fixing a paste error
      build: make --enable-help properly depend on --enable-multibuffer
      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.2 release
      display: initialize the colors only when starting to draw the content
      display: push the titlebar to the screen as soon as it has been drawn
      docs: add an item to the FAQ, about pasting from Windows to a remote nano
      docs: harmonize the nanorc man page and Info document a bit
      docs: in the FAQ, extend the answer to the pasting problem
      docs: reword the main paragraph of the man page
      docs: update the list of who authored what
      gnulib: update to its current state in git
      help: after a search, show the cursor only when something was found
      help: allocate enough space for the descriptions, so we don't crash
      help: don't crash when nano was started with --noread
      help: don't cycle forward in the buffers when exiting from help
      help: keep the same position also after M-\ or M-/ has been used
      help: keep the text at the same position when the screen is resized
      help: remove the final blank line, so <End> does the same as all <Down>
      help: set tabsize to the default width while showing a help text
      help: suppress nano's name and number to make it clearer this is help
      help: use a dedicated syntax to color shortcuts in a help text
      help: when searching, do it forward, without case, and without regexes
      input: avoid crashing when resizing the window during verbatim input
      options: allow -U (--quickblank) to be used in the tiny version
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      scrolling: don't bother to limit the number of lines to step back
      startup: warn about a strange character size only in the UTF-8 case
      syntax: nanohelp: change the hue of the keystrokes to match sample.nanorc
      tweaks: add a warning for a condition that should never occur
      tweaks: add three warnings for conditions that should never occur
      tweaks: avoid an unused-variable warning
      tweaks: be more precise about what --disable-extra does
      tweaks: check for an empty needle in a central place
      tweaks: complete the exclusion of backups and such from the tiny version
      tweaks: condense two bits of code, and drop two asserts
      tweaks: distinguish (in the comments) between buffers and linestructs
      tweaks: drop a bunch of asserts
      tweaks: elide a function that is used just once
      tweaks: fix compilation with --enable-tiny --enable-color --enable-speller
      tweaks: fix two typos
      tweaks: remove a superfluous check
      tweaks: remove a superfluous strlen() call from the reverse searches
      tweaks: remove some superfluous placements of the cursor
      tweaks: remove two superfluous calls of wnoutrefresh()
      tweaks: rename a constant, to match the corresponding option
      tweaks: rename a function, to be more accurate
      tweaks: rename a function, to better suit what it does
      tweaks: rename another function, to better describe what it does
      tweaks: rename a parameter, to be more imperative
      tweaks: rename a variable, use a faster comparison, and reshuffle a bit
      tweaks: rename one variable again
      tweaks: rename some more of these 'rev_start' variables
      tweaks: rename three variables, elide another, and reshuffle some stuff
      tweaks: rename two variables, because this 'rev_start' is irksome
      tweaks: reshuffle a couple of lines to avoid a duplicate call
      tweaks: reshuffle help-text initialization, to elide a save-and-restore
      tweaks: reshuffle some more stuff, and rename two more variables
      tweaks: swap the names of two variables, to make more sense
      tweaks: transform the token DISABLE_MOUSE to ENABLE_MOUSE
      tweaks: transform the token DISABLE_MULTIBUFFER to ENABLE_MULTIBUFFER
      tweaks: use the logic from revstrstr() also in mbrevstrcasestr()
      tweaks: use the logic from revstrstr() also in revstrcasestr()

David Lawrence Ramsey (1):
      docs: mention that also numbercolor overrides boldtext

Rishabh Dave (1):
      new feature: add a search facility to the help viewer

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Benno

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