2017.08.27 - GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are
wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting
more predictable by retaining relative indentations,
allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes
in Python to not be followed by a character, does not
scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds
Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and
fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping
and boundary-crossing tabs. Enjoy.
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-2.8.7.tar.xz
https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-2.8.7.tar.xz.asc
Specific bugs that were fixed in this release:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47684 (unindenting was too enthusiastic)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48501 (pasting at the prompt [request])
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51438 (indenting added inconstant width)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51526 (better triple quotes for Python)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51550 (replacing after linting crashed)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51621 (tabs were of inconstant width)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51644 (long line of HTML seemed to hang)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51735 (arrow keys could be rebound)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51743 (inserting at top left caused mess)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51770 (lockup when tab wider than screen)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51776 (failing to scroll with large tabs)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51778 (imprecise movement on some tabs)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51790 (too many line numbers)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51802 (mouse wheel scrolled too much)
Changes between v2.8.6 and v2.8.7:
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Urja Rannikko (1):
bindings: hard-bind Alt+Left and Alt+Right to buffer switching
Rishabh Dave (1):
new feature: allow pasting at all input prompts
David Lawrence Ramsey (23):
browser: allow backward/forward re-searches with Alt+Up/Alt+Down
display: constrain line numbers on softwrapped lines with sprawling tabs
display: do show the visible character for a tab when it starts a row
display: revamp how screen updates are done in the movement code
moving: redraw not just the new current line but also the prior one
small addition: allow customizing the color of selected text
softwrap: correctly move vertically through overwide tabs
softwrap: don't push a straddling tab to the next chunk
softwrap: improve left/right navigation across line boundaries
softwrap: make sure char_len is set when a tab is wider than a chunk
softwrap: properly update the viewport when adding text at firstcolumn
text: make indenting add to the beginning of the line
text: make unindenting remove from the beginning of the line
tweaks: adjust spacing and wording in sample.nanorc
tweaks: correct a comment typo and an indentation error
tweaks: harmonize some prototypes with their functions
tweaks: remove unneeded parentheses and blank line and braces
tweaks: replace a misplaced tab with a space
tweaks: set the target row for smooth scrolling more directly
tweaks: use charalloc() instead of (char *)nmalloc() * sizeof(char)
weeding: drop the forreal parameter from place_the_cursor()
weeding: remove redundant casts of nmalloc()
weeding: remove the unused be_clever parameter from do_home()/do_end()
Benno Schulenberg (55):
bindings: hard-bind Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext
browser: correct the inverted search behavior for Alt+Up/Alt+Down
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.7 release
display: catch all cases where the cursor can be pushed offscreen
display: don't doubly show tabs that cross a chunk boundary
files: do not silently ignore an invalid backup directory, but die
files: don't close a file descriptor when opening failed [coverity scan]
files: don't try to open a negative file descriptor [coverity scan]
gnulib: update to its current upstream state
linting: don't try to put the cursor at a negative x position
linting: skip the introductory message produced by 'gcc -fshow-column'
mouse: one click of the wheel should move three lines, not three pages
moving: don't push x forward when backward movement lands on a split tab
moving: get <Up> unstuck when trying to pass over a sprawling tab
moving: improve retention of the target column somewhat
moving: the current chunk is always 0 when not in softwrap mode
moving: use the correct formula for pushing the index forward
po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
rcfile: don't leak a shortcut when something goes wrong [coverity scan]
softwrap: properly move up and down over tabs that are split over rows
syntax: c: give labels some color too
syntax: html: don't bother coloring tags that cross line boundaries
syntax: python: don't require a character after an opening triple quote
text: properly unindent lines that consist of only whitespace
tweaks: a comma does not end a sentence, and is not part of a variable
tweaks: adjust the indentation after the previous change (3x)
tweaks: allow enough space for the Y/N/A characters [coverity scan]
tweaks: avoid trying to stat a file that might be NULL [coverity scan]
tweaks: close a file also in the error path [coverity scan]
tweaks: condense or improve some comments
tweaks: condense some logic, to elide a variable and a comment
tweaks: do not leak the indentation when all lines are empty
tweaks: don't close a descriptor when its stream has already been closed
tweaks: drop some debugging stuff
tweaks: drop some debugging stuff, and frob two comments
tweaks: elide an unneeded pointer
tweaks: elide the global variable 'full_operating_dir'
tweaks: fix compilation with --enable-{tiny,help,multibuffer}
tweaks: group all movement routines in corresponding pairs
tweaks: keep the const qualifier of the syntax name [coverity scan]
tweaks: remove includes that appear to be superfluous
tweaks: rename a function, to let it make more sense
tweaks: rename a label, to better match its task
tweaks: renumber the special key codes, to be in sequence and grouped
tweaks: reshuffle code and frob comments, to reduce the number of lines
tweaks: reshuffle some code to harmonize two related functions
tweaks: reshuffle some declarations and trim a few comments
tweaks: restore an include that is necessary on some platforms
tweaks: show "where is next" in the help lines of the file browser
tweaks: simply set the proper scrolling mode, instead of imitating it
tweaks: snip a superfluous clearing of the bottom bars after help
tweaks: sort the includes, so it's a little easier to see what is there
tweaks: specify more directly in what manner to move the viewport
--
Benno
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