[Nano-devel] [ANNOUNCE] nano-4.5 is released

[Benno Schulenberg]

2019.10.04  -  GNU nano 4.5  "Košice"

• The new 'tabgives' command allows you to specify per syntax what
  the <Tab> key should produce: some spaces, a hard TAB, ...
• The output of --help is properly aligned again for all languages.
• <Tab> will indent a marked region also when M-} has been rebound.


GNU nano is a simple and easy-to-use editor for on the terminal.
  https://nano-editor.org/
  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/latest/nano-4.5.tar.xz
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-4.5.tar.xz.asc


Specific bugs that were fixed in this release:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53661  (per-syntax tabbing behavior [request])
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56845  (+/string skipped start of file)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56846  (column was not retained after +/string)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56902  (filename could fail to match syntax)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56928  (output of --help was misaligned)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56930  (untranslated word in --help output)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56960  (with M-} rebound, <Tab> did not indent)


Changes between v4.4 and v4.5:
------------------------------

Dirkjan Ochtman (1):
      syntax: rust: add the words reserved in 2018, and remove unreserved ones

Brand Huntsman (1):
      search: accept a match at start of file when searching from command line

Benno Schulenberg (62):
      bindings: add a dedicated keycode for <Tab> for when a region is marked
      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.5 release
      color: don't concatenate an absolute path with the working directory
      docs: add two examples of the 'tabgives' command to the sample nanorc
      docs: describe the new syntax-specific 'tabgives' command
      docs: mark the undoing of justifications as done in the TODO list
      docs: mention that gcc must be at least version 5.0
      gnulib: update to its current upstream state
      mouse: make the clickable width of menu items more consistent
      new feature: a 'tabgives' command to define what the Tab key produces
      oops: fix typo in Changelog
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      search: after search-at-startup, store the column (for vertical movement)
      tweaks: add a translator hint, and correct two others
      tweaks: add some translator hints, be more precise on permissible length
      tweaks: add two hints for translators, to try and help avoid mistakes
      tweaks: adjust indentation after previous change, reshuffle declarations
      tweaks: avoid a comparison between signed and unsigned  [coverity]
      tweaks: avoid leaking memory when finding an invalid string  [coverity]
      tweaks: avoid recomputing a maximum value every time round the loop
      tweaks: don't burden all menus with something meant for the WriteOut menu
      tweaks: elide a function from a non-UTF8 build
      tweaks: elide two multiplications with something that is always 1
      tweaks: frob a few comments
      tweaks: improve a bunch of comments, and reshuffle some declarations
      tweaks: improve a handful of comments, and reduce the needed padding
      tweaks: mark as 'const' a parameter that takes fixed strings  [coverity]
      tweaks: meld two calls of free() into a single one, to elide an 'else'
      tweaks: move a fragment of common code into the appropriate function
      tweaks: move a function to a better file, to be amongst its kind
      tweaks: move a function to before its callers and next to its kind
      tweaks: move two functions to after the ones that they call
      tweaks: remove some timing code that has served its purpose
      tweaks: remove two superfluous macros, as sizeof(char) is always 1
      tweaks: rename a function, to be a bit more fitting
      tweaks: rename another type, again to better fit the general pattern
      tweaks: rename another type, to also better fit the general pattern
      tweaks: rename another variable, for a better fit
      tweaks: rename a type, to better fit the general pattern
      tweaks: rename a variable, normalize a comment, and reshuffle a free()
      tweaks: rename a variable, to be more compact
      tweaks: rename three variables, for contrast and more sense
      tweaks: rename three variables, for more contrast
      tweaks: rename three variables, to better indicate what they hold
      tweaks: rename two variables, away from single letters
      tweaks: rename two variables, to better describe what they contain
      tweaks: reshuffle a fragment, to group some toggles together
      tweaks: reshuffle a line, to group things better
      tweaks: reshuffle some lines, to elide an unneeded assignment
      tweaks: reshuffle some lines, to have the same order as elsewhere
      tweaks: reshuffle two fragments, to group things better
      tweaks: rewrap a line, reshuffle a declaration, and improve some comments
      tweaks: simplify a calculation, as done elsewhere
      tweaks: simplify the determination of a canonical path
      tweaks: sort two keywords strictly alphabetically
      tweaks: speed up determining the width of plain ASCII characters
      tweaks: speed up the counting of the menu entries to be shown
      tweaks: use a more effecient way to skip storing an empty file name
      tweaks: use an early return when there is no tilde
      tweaks: use 'void' in prototypes of parameterless functions  [coverity]
      usage: mark the -J/--guidestripe option plus argument as translatable
      usage: properly align --help output also when it has accented characters

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Benno

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