2021.01.14 - GNU nano 5.5 "Rebecca" • Option 'set minibar' makes nano suppress the title bar and instead show a bar with basic editing information at the bottom: file name (plus an asterisk when the buffer is modified), the cursor position (line,column), the character under the cursor (U+xxxx), the flags that --stateflags normally shows, plus the percentage of the buffer that is above the cursor. • With 'set promptcolor' the color combination of the prompt bar can be changed, to allow contrasting it with the mini bar (which always has the same color as the title bar). • Option 'set markmatch' highlights the result of a successful search by putting the mark at the end of the match, making the match more visible. It also suppresses the cursor until the next keystroke. (If you dislike the hiding of the cursor, use 'set showcursor'.) • The bindable toggle 'nowrap' has been renamed to 'breaklonglines', to match the corresponding option, like for all other toggles. • Support for Slang has been removed.
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/v5/nano-5.5.tar.xz https://nano-editor.org/dist/v5/nano-5.5.tar.xz.asc Specific issues that were addressed in this release: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58152 (an option to hide title bar [wish]) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58789 (option for conciser interface [wish]) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58904 ("Esc Esc X" for ^X failed in a macro) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59655 (mark the result of a search [wish]) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59744 (state flags were shown in browser) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59747 (M flag was unaffected by mouse) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59749 (line numbers skewed mouse clicks) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59769 ('set bookstyle' was not greened) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59796 (Undo left a magic line from Replace) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59802 (clipping of file name was unobvious) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59808 (possibly misplaced cursor in prompt) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59816 (long search could scroll prompt bar) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59854 (memory leak on multiple spell checks) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59855 (spell check crashed for --speller="") Changes between v5.4 and v5.5: ------------------------------ OIX (1): mouse: update title bar (the M flag) when the click is on the cursor Benno Schulenberg (85): build: fix compilation for --enable-{tiny,help,multibuffer} build: fix compilation when configured with --disable-utf8 build: fix compilation when configured with --enable-tiny build: remove the '--with-slang' configure option bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.5 release chars: short-circuit determining the width of characters under U+0300 chars: speed up the handling of invalid UTF-8 starter bytes copyright: update the years for the FSF display: add code for showing minimal state-information bar at the bottom display: do not show the state flags in the help viewer or file browser docs: explain the effect of --minibar / -_ / 'set minibar' docs: explain the purpose of --markmatch / -^ / 'set markmatch' docs: insert links to the mailing-list archives into the README docs: mention in NEWS that some workarounds were removed docs: mention the new 'set promptcolor' option docs: remove all mentions of Slang feedback: differentiate between remarks, mistakes, and information feedback: wipe the status bar by default after 20 keystrokes files: when truncating a file name, give an indication of this general: remove support for Slang gnulib: update to its current upstream state input: intercept ^Z also when --minibar is active input: interpret a keystroke as Meta only when an earlier escape was solo memory: avoid leaking the speller or linter command string, when invoked minibar: add an [x/y] "counter" when multiple files are open minibar: add a percentage that shows how far the cursor is into the file minibar: allow the number-of-lines to overrule also the state flags minibar: allow the number-of-lines to overrule location + character code minibar: drop the side spaces before suppressing the state flags minibar: represent bytes as 0xNN and valid Unicode code points as U+NNNN minibar: show the info bar again some 0.8 seconds after a message minibar: show the line count in the bar (at startup and when saving) minibar: show Unicode codes when in a UTF-8 locale minibar: suppress some elements when there is no room to show them minibar: when the next character has zero width, show its code too minibar: when the overnext character has zero width too, show its code mouse: do not offset the shortcuts by 'margin' when using --linenumbers oops: use the correct condition for checking the last line will change options: accept 'set promptcolor' for setting the color of the prompt bar options: add --markmatch and -^ for activating the select-match behavior options: add --minibar and -_ for activating basic state-information bar po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files prompt: restore a workaround for a cursor misplacement bug in ncurses prompt: suppress the ">" character always when exactly at the right edge rcfile: rename 'nowrap' toggle to 'breaklonglines', to match the option search: set the mark at the end of a found match so it gets highlighted search: suppress the cursor when highlighting a match speller: do an internal spell check when --speller is an empty string speller: strip leading whitespace from command, to avoid a sneaky crash syntax: go: add author and license line syntax: nanorc: colorize 'bookstyle' as a valid option syntax: nanorc: colorize 'set promptcolor' as valid syntax: sh: recognize shebangs with any shell after 'env', not just 'sh' tweaks: adjust the indentation after the previous change tweaks: avoid compilation warnings on 32-bit machine plus newer compiler tweaks: avoid computing the cursor column twice, and the "page" too tweaks: avoid hitting negative values when using size_t tweaks: change an intermediate variable to a better one tweaks: clean up after the previous change tweaks: condense the description of how to report a bug tweaks: correct a translator hint tweaks: correct two comments after the previous changes tweaks: do not change the pointer, but move the content of the string tweaks: drop a small optimization for invalid UTF-8 starter bytes tweaks: elide a variable, by using a reallocation instead tweaks: fold some conditions into bitwise masks, for efficiency tweaks: fold two similar and three identical cases together tweaks: move 'set indicator' to its alphabetical place in the manual tweaks: move the displaying of the state letters into a separate function tweaks: push back the deprecation of the 'set nowrap' option tweaks: put the new options in a consistent order in the code tweaks: reduce the scope of a static variable tweaks: remove some #ifdefs that were there only for Slang tweaks: rename a variable, to be similar to its sister tweaks: reshuffle a condition, to probably avoid an unneeded calculation tweaks: reshuffle an option, to have two related ones grouped together tweaks: reshuffle some lines, to group things better tweaks: reshuffle some lines, to have most #includes near the beginning tweaks: reshuffle some more lines, to have most #defines together tweaks: reshuffle two lines, and rename a variable to a plain word tweaks: reword the description of an option tweaks: simplify a bit of logic tweaks: use a boolean instead of an enumeration of two values undo: remove the added magic line when a replacement caused one weeding: remove some obsolete information from the README -- Benno
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