[Nano-devel] [ANNOUNCE] nano-2.9.2 is released

[Benno Schulenberg]

2018.01.02 - GNU nano 2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified
                state when undoing/redoing (also when the file was saved
                somewhere midway), improves the undoing of an automatic
                linefeed at EOF, fixes a build issue on the BSDs, shows
                the cursor again when compiled with --withslang, renames
                the option 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks' because it will
                now snip trailing whitespace also while you are typing
                (and hard-wrapping is enabled), continues pushing words
                to the next line much longer (when hard-wrapping), makes
                <Tab> and <Shift+Tab> indent and unindent a marked region,
                allows unindenting when not all lines are indented, lets a
                region marked with Shift persist when indenting/unindenting
                or commenting/uncommenting it, and in those cases excludes
                the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked
                (which makes for a more intuitive behavior).


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-2.9.2.tar.xz
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-2.9.2.tar.xz.asc


Specific bugs that were fixed in this release:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52198  (trimming of tail spaces [request])
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52523  (undoing added magic lines)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52546  (build failure on macOS Sierra)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52576  (too quickly created a new wrapline)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52651  (missing cursor when using Slang)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52682  (arrow keys failed with --rebindkeypad)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52689  (Modified state not shown correctly)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52755  (prompt bar not getting wiped)


Nano has complete translations for the following thirteen languages
(the language name is followed by the name of the last translator):

  Croat       -- Božidar Putanec
  Dutch       -- Benno Schulenberg
  Esperanto   -- Benno Schulenberg
  French      -- Jean-Philippe Guérard
  German      -- Mario Blättermann
  Irish       -- Kevin Scannell
  Japanese    -- Takeshi Hamasaki
  Portuguese  -- Rafael Fontenelle  (Brazil)
  Romanian    -- Mihai Cristescu
  Spanish     -- Antonio Ceballos
  Turkish     -- Mehmet Kececi
  Ukrainian   -- Yuri Chornoivan
  Vietnamese  -- Trần Ngọc Quân


Changes between v2.9.1 and v2.9.2:
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Benjamin Mintz (1):
      syntax: python: add 'async', 'await', and 'nonlocal' as keywords

Liu Hao (1):
      syntax: c: increase the color contrast of reminders like FIXME

Michael Francis (1):
      syntax: php: function and variable names can contain uppercase and digits

Mike Frysinger (1):
      syntax: javascript: add newer keywords and string syntax

Tom Levy (6):
      syntax: go: fix word boundary before dot in number literal
      syntax: go: sign of exponent in number literal is optional
      syntax: lua: add new and missing standard library functions
      syntax: lua: correct the word boundaries on standard library functions
      syntax: lua: require at least one digit for hexadecimal numbers
      syntax: lua: support fractional part and exponent for decimal and hex

David Lawrence Ramsey (3):
      input: support backtab when Slang and/or --rebindkeypad is used
      tweaks: use printf's z modifier for (s)size_t, instead of casting
      undo: when adding text adds a magicline, an undo should remove both

Benno Schulenberg (63):
      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.2 release
      display: ensure that cursor is visible when compiled with --with-slang
      docs: mention that the source code is best viewed with a tab size of 4
      docs: say thanks to some fairly recent translators, and rename one
      gnulib: pull in the fix for the missing stat include
      gnulib: update to its current upstream state
      help: show that "Tab" will indent, just like "Sh-Tab" will unindent
      help: swap the order of the Complete and Comment functions
      indenting: don't exclude last line of region when region is empty
      indenting: keep affecting last line of marked region if it was at first
      input: allow using <Tab> and <Shift+Tab> to (un)indent selected region
      input: make <Ctrl+Shift+Arrow> work also when using --rebindkeypad
      input: optimize a bit for non-shortcut keys, as they are most frequent
      options: rename 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks', because it has morphed
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      prompt: blank the bar when a "continue?" is answered with No or ^C
      syntaxes: remove redundant word-boundary markers
      syntax: javascript: add some comments, and color explicit numbers too
      syntax: javascript: add some keywords, and sort them more logically
      syntax: javascript: color strings differently from major keywords
      syntax: javascript: require that a comment is preceded by whitespace
      syntax: lua: condense some regexes, tweak comments, reorder things
      syntax: nanorc: don't color parts of valid strings as if invalid
      syntax: python: color also the special values 'False', 'None', 'True'
      text: allow unindenting when not all lines are indented
      text: keep cursor at left edge when it IS there when indenting/commenting
      text: let a Shift-selection persist when indenting and commenting
      text: let indenting/commenting skip the last line if its x is zero
      text: set and reset the Modified state correctly when undoing/redoing
      tweaks: add a separate function that actually wipes the status bar
      tweaks: avoid incrementing a variable that won't be used again later
      tweaks: condense or rewrap a bunch of repetitious comments
      tweaks: condense, reword, and rewrap a bunch of comments
      tweaks: condense some debugging code, and rewrap a line
      tweaks: convert the indentation of the NEWS file too
      tweaks: convert the indentation to use only tabs
      tweaks: drop some old debugging code plus a superfluous comment
      tweaks: elide two parameters from the get_region() function
      tweaks: elide two variables that are used just once
      tweaks: factor out a piece of common code
      tweaks: fix some whitespace errors, and convert alignment tabs to spaces
      tweaks: fold some regexes into one another, for conciseness
      tweaks: frob four comments, and rewrap two lines
      tweaks: invert the logic of a variable, and rename it
      tweaks: limit the resetting of "Modified" to writing a full buffer
      tweaks: move some frequently-used keystrokes to the top of the list
      tweaks: remove a redundant call of renumber()
      tweaks: remove a superfluous condition
      tweaks: remove a superfluous placing of a terminating nul byte
      tweaks: remove some unneeded parentheses, and shorten two function calls
      tweaks: remove two irrelevant conditions
      tweaks: rename three variables, for more contrast and variety
      tweaks: reshuffle a bit of common code, moving it to an existing function
      tweaks: reshuffle another bit of code, for conciseness
      tweaks: rewrap some lines and some comments, and trim two others
      tweaks: slightly rename four functions, for aptness and variety
      tweaks: strip some debugging stuff, and condense a bit of code
      tweaks: trim another placing of a terminating nul byte
      tweaks: use for git the more faithful "less -x1,5" suggested by Brand
      tweaks: use spaces for alignment also in the THANKS file
      wrapping: delete trailing blanks upon hardwrapping, when requested
      wrapping: keep prepending to the same next line as long as possible
      wrapping: we're still on the same line if the next line has not changed

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Benno