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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