2018.09.09 - GNU nano 3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the
reading of a file by seventy percent, roughly doubles the
speed of handling ASCII text, changes the way words at line
boundaries are deleted, makes <Ctrl+Delete> wipe the next
word and <Ctrl+Shift+Delete> the preceding word, binds M-Q
to 'findprevious' by default (the Tabs-to-Spaces toggle is
placed on M-O, and the More-Space toggle is fully removed),
makes an external spell check undoable, shows the correct
number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple
files, removes the 'formatter' command, removes the
'searchagain' bindable function (M-W is now bound to
'findnext' by default), moves the No-Convert toggle to the
Insert menu, removes the Backup and New-Buffer toggles from
the main menu (they remain in the Write-Out and Insert
menus, respectively), is more precise in what it accepts as
a rebindable key name, ignores any presses of <Esc> before
a valid command keystroke, recognizes some more escape
sequences for modified editing-pad keys, does not hide
rcfile error messages on a Linux console, renames the
bindable functions 'copytext' to 'copy' and 'uncut' to
'paste', and avoids a possible hang during a Full-Justify.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-3.0.tar.xz https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-3.0.tar.xz.asc Specific bugs that were fixed in this release: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54032 (misplaced cursor when undoing cut) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54042 (external spell check was not undoable) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54047 (wrong number of lines in file shown) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54071 (undocumented rebinding of "Del"/"Ins") https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54265 (puzzling error message sans gettext) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54274 (bad rebindings not flagged as error) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54291 (modified PgUp/PgDn entered characters) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54301 (command not recognized after <Esc>) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54314 (mouse click on Yes/No not working) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54332 (more undocumented possible rebindings) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54344 (undoing could give incorrect file size) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54409 (signal handler should not call print) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54441 (poor error message for included files) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54442 (rcfile messages not shown on Linux VT) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54447 (unbinding ^C would handicap Yes/No) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54449 (error message for rebind lacked info) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54478 (redoing filtering gave bad file size) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54499 (spell check failed after filtering) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54516 (awk syntax lacked header detection) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54536 (No-Convert was missing in Insert menu) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54573 (Full-Justify could hang on last line) Changes between v2.9.8 and v3.0: -------------------------------- Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita (1): input: erase the next word when Ctrl is held while pressing Delete Devin Hussey (2): files: speed up reading by using getc_unlocked() instead of getc() syntax: sh: recognize more file extensions and header lines Mark-Weston (2): build: fix compilation when CC=tcc syntax: lua: do not color strings inside comments, and add a linter Brand Huntsman (4): input: give feedback for all unbound keys also in the help viewer statusbar: elevate three messages to an ALERT, to make them more visible tweaks: correct four spaces of indentation to a tab, in two places tweaks: remove the 'bright' field from the colortype struct David Lawrence Ramsey (13): bindings: make "n" work again in file browser and help viewer bindings: make ^Q start a backward search also in the file browser docs: mention that "Ins" and "Del" are valid rebindable keys justify: verify being in a paragraph before trying to find its beginning speller: hook up a full alternative spellcheck to the undo system speller: hook up a marked-text alternative spellcheck to the undo system speller: make replace_buffer() use the cutting functions directly speller: make replace_marked_buffer() use the cutting functions directly undo: actually enable undoing/redoing an alternative spellcheck undo: always initialize the 'newsize' element in the undo struct undo: position the cursor properly when undoing/redoing magicline cuts undo: restore the cursor position when a cut and paste are paired undo: store the correct cursor position after a paired cut+insert Benno Schulenberg (114): bindings: bind M-Q to 'findprevious' by default, and M-W to 'findnext' bindings: hard-bind <Ctrl+Shift+Delete> to 'cutwordleft' bindings: make ^Q and M-Q available also in the help viewer bindings: move the noconvert toggle from the main to the insert menu bindings: reassign the M-| keystroke to 'cutwordleft' by default bindings: remove backup and new-buffer toggles (M-B, M-F) from main menu bindings: remove the More-Space toggle entirely bindings: remove the 'searchagain' function entirely bindings: rename two bindable functions: copytext to copy, uncut to paste bindings: unassign the M-? keystroke, to free it up for future use build: add the release script to the repository build: fix compilation again when configured with --enable-tiny build: fix compilation when configured with --enable-tiny build: verify that 'msgfmt' is available when building from git bump version numbers and add a news item for the 3.0 release chars: make the UTF-8 case ever so slightly faster by eliding an 'if' chars: speed up the counting of string length for the plain ASCII case chars: speed up the parsing of a character for the plain ASCII case completion: when the cursor is not after a word fragment, say so cut: concentrate the logic for clearing the cutbuffer mostly in one place cutting: when deleting whole words, don't join lines unexpectedly debug: add some code to time the performance of get_totsize() docs: improve a comment about rebinding <Backspace> docs: mention that also Ctrl increases the stride when selecting text docs: mention that "normal" can be used to give things the default color docs: mention that the 'formatter' command has been superseded docs: reshuffle a bindable function to a slightly better position docs: say that 'cutwordright' is now bound to <Ctrl+Delete> by default docs: slightly reword the description of four bindable functions docs: the 'noconvert' bindable function was renamed to 'flipconvert' dropping a feature: remove the ability to use the 'formatter' command easter: show the crawl only when there is room enough for the lines files: add the file format on the status bar when switching buffers filtering: wait for the data-sending process to terminate too gnulib: update to its current upstream state help: for ^R^X, mention that the buffer can be piped to the command help: move "Search Again" away from "Find Next" and "Find Previous" input: consume the whole escape sequence for modified PgUp and PgDn keys input: fully consume modified PgUp and PgDn keys also in the tiny version input: ignore any <Escape>s before a valid command keystroke input: stop <Alt+Insert> from entering "3~" into the buffer input: stop a modified Delete key from entering stuff into the buffer mouse: put the row/column arguments in the proper order [coverity scan] po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files prompt: concentrate manipulations of 'statusbar_x' into a single file prompt: remove redundant redrawings of the prompt bar rcfile: allow to rebind the Cancel function in the yesno menu rcfile, docs: no longer recognize nor mention 'set backwards' rcfile: do not accept rebinding F0 nor function keys above F16 rcfile: ensure that in the yesno menu Cancel is bound to some keystroke rcfile: explicitly check for disallowed keywords in included files rcfile: reject things like "M-Del" and "^{" as invalid key names rcfile: when a vital function is not mapped, mention in which menu search: include 'findprevious' and 'findnext' in the tiny version signals: don't call a print routine in a signal handler speller: do not replace the text when the temporary file did not change startup: don't overwrite rcfile error messages on a Linux console startup: show the correct number of lines when opening multiple files syntax: awk: recognize any {g,m,n,}awk script also by its shebang line syntax: default: colorize also two-digit and capitalized nano versions syntaxes: remove all traces of the 'formatter' command syntax: nanorc: recognize 'yesno' as a valid menu to bind/unbind keys in syntax: nanorc: show ^@ as validly rebindable, but not any ^digit syntax: python: avoid coloring the three special values inside strings text: add auto-whitespace to the file size after creating the undo item tweaks: adjust indentation after the previous change tweaks: adjust one more translator hint, for removed toggles tweaks: adjust some translator hints for past changes, and add two more tweaks: adjust two comments, to be more accurate and general tweaks: avoid dereferencing a pointer when it is NULL [coverity scan] tweaks: close a temp file only when descriptor is valid [coverity scan] tweaks: correct a comment, rewrap a line, and drop some debugging stuff tweaks: delete some old debugging code that no longer seems useful tweaks: don't bother having debug code that deallocates all memory tweaks: don't call va_start() without calling va_end() [coverity scan] tweaks: drop a condition that has been made redundant two commits ago tweaks: drop some old debugging code tweaks: elide a bunch of unneeded constant strings tweaks: elide a function that is used just once tweaks: elide another function that is used just once tweaks: elide an unneeded/duplicate variable tweaks: elide a one-line function -- no, a half-line function tweaks: elide a subfunction that is used just once tweaks: exclude a global flagging variable when it is not needed tweaks: exclude the file-prepending code from the tiny version tweaks: fix a pasting error from a month ago tweaks: implement the name-to-menu function in another manner tweaks: improve a couple of comments in the sample nanorc tweaks: improve a translator hint and some other comments tweaks: move a call to where it will be executed [coverity scan] tweaks: normalize the indentation after the previous change tweaks: properly escape "\" in a man page and "@" in a texi document tweaks: recognize escape sequences of modified Ins/Del more precisely tweaks: reduce the counting of characters to just the needed function tweaks: remove a redundant "struct" word, and replace it in comments tweaks: remove a superfluous condition and a redundant refresh tweaks: remove redundant braces and conditions after the previous change tweaks: remove some braces that are now superfluous tweaks: remove some ineffectual parts from header-line regexes tweaks: remove the superfluous calls that reset the mbtowc() state tweaks: remove two needless words, and split up a changed text further tweaks: remove two superfluous assignments tweaks: rename a constant, to match what it actually means tweaks: rename a function and place its call better tweaks: rename a function to better match its counterpart tweaks: rename a function, to better state what it does tweaks: rename a variable and a function, for more clarity tweaks: rename a variable, to better match its task tweaks: reshuffle some lines, in order to elide one tweaks: reshuffle the order of the bindings, for help-line esthetics tweaks: show "Space" and "Bsp" in the help text of the browser tweaks: slightly improve error message when vital function is unmapped tweaks: use a shorter message, because when the screen is small... undo: differentiate between general filtering and spell checking -- Benno
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