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[ANNOUNCE] nano-4.2 is released
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Benno Schulenberg |
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[ANNOUNCE] nano-4.2 is released |
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Wed, 24 Apr 2019 11:42:17 +0200 |
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2019.04.24 - GNU nano 4.2 "Tax the rich, pay the teachers"
• The integrated spell checker does not crash when 'spell' is missing.
• Option --breaklonglines works also when --ignorercfiles is used.
• Automatic hard-wrapping is more persistent in pushing words to the
same overflow line.
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-4.2.tar.xz
https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-4.2.tar.xz.asc
Specific bugs that were fixed in this release:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56179 (--break not working with --ignore)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56180 (--trim not removing all tail blanks)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56185 (unneeded addition of tail blank)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56188 (^T crashing when 'spell' is missing)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56189 (improvable prepending behavior)
Changes between v4.1 and v4.2:
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Benno Schulenberg (24):
build: be more specific and avoid committing accidentally changed files
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.2 release
docs: put the 'set guidestripe' option into its alphabetical position
options: make --breaklonglines work also when --ignorercfiles is used
po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
speller: do not crash by trying to free something that cannot be freed
tweaks: adjust a few comments and some indentation
tweaks: condense and improve a handful of comments
tweaks: declare a function as const and let its allocated string leak
tweaks: drop an unneeded saving and restoring of a variable
tweaks: elide an unneeded intermediate variable
tweaks: elide an unneeded parameter, as the function already assumes it
tweaks: elide an unneeded variable
tweaks: exclude a bit more code from a single-buffer build
tweaks: remove an unneeded condition
tweaks: remove a redundant, enclosed #ifdef
tweaks: rename a function, to be distinct and fitting
tweaks: rename another function, to be distinct and fitting
tweaks: rename a variable, for a little more meaning
tweaks: rename a variable, to distinguish it from a browser function
wrapping: add a missing space only when the remainder will be prepended
wrapping: compute the width of a succeeding line in the correct manner
wrapping: improve the persistence of the prepending behavior
wrapping: trim any trailing blanks when cursor goes to next line
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Benno
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