[Info-nano] [ANNOUNCE] nano-8.2 is released

[Benno Schulenberg]

2024.09.05 - GNU nano 8.2  "Charlotte will climb walls!"

• At a Yes-No prompt, beside Y and the localized initial for "Yes",
  also ^Y is accepted.  Similarly, ^N for "No", and ^A for "All".
• A text-highlighting bug with Alt+Home/Alt+End is fixed.



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

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/v8/nano-8.2.tar.xz
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/v8/nano-8.2.tar.xz.asc



Specific issues that were addressed in this release:
  https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/?65991  ({runmacro} discarded rest of string bind)
  https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/?65992  (Alt+Home/End did not highlight selection)



Changes between v8.1 and v8.2:
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Collin Funk (1):
      build: update a symbol that was renamed in gnulib

Benno Schulenberg (23):
      bindings: at a Yes-No-All prompt, accept also ^A for "All"
      bindings: let the central numpad key (with Ctrl) center the current line
      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 8.2 release
      docs: do not quote the argument of 'include' statements in sample nanorc
      docs: mention former maintainership last among an author's contributions
      docs: mention the availability of ^Y, ^N, and ^A at a Yes-No prompt
      docs: trim stuff that is more than four years old from the changelog
      gnulib: update to its current upstream state
      macro: insert it in keystroke buffer without discarding latter's contents
      moving: for Alt+Home/Alt+End, refresh the screen when the mark is on
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      syntax: autoconf: colorize the keywords 'case', 'esac', and 'ifelse' too
      syntax: awk: add a missing "|" between "\?" and ":"
      syntax: awk: colorize escape sequences specially
      syntax: awk: rewrite a regex more densely, and add the missing ~ operator
      syntax: man: colorize also the .MT .ME .EX .EE .SY .OP and .YS macros
      syntax: nanorc: an unquoted argument of 'include' may not contain blanks
      tweaks: delete three redundant checks from the undo/redo code
      tweaks: improve or rewrap six comments, and add two missing ones
      tweaks: move a condition to the only place that needs it
      tweaks: rename a symbol, away from an obscure abbreviation
      tweaks: reshuffle a seldom-used function to the end of an if-else series
      tweaks: unwrap three lines that don't need to be wrapped


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Benno

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