2022.04.28 - GNU nano 6.3 "Wat zullen we drinken? Wat een dorst!"
• For multiline regexes, text is now colored as soon a start match is found, also when there is no end match at all. • The colorizing of any line is stopped after two thousand bytes, to avoid frustrating delays. • When environment variable NO_COLOR is set, the two default colors (yellow for the spotlight, red for error messages) are suppressed when no interface colors are specified in a nanorc file. • Full justification and piping the whole buffer through a command now keep the cursor at the same line number. • Utility 'xsel' can be used to copy a marked region to the system's clipboard. See doc/sample.nanorc for an example. GNU nano is a simple and easy-to-use editor for on the terminal. 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/v6/nano-6.3.tar.xz https://nano-editor.org/dist/v6/nano-6.3.tar.xz.asc Specific issues that were addressed in this release: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57248 (let piping keep cursor position [wish]) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60041 (some edits could still miscolor things) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61175 (let full-justify keep position [wish]) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61799 (coloring extreme lines could take ages) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62056 (drawing of huge XML file was too slow) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62107 (piping an empty buffer crashed) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62244 (an unintended file could be opened) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62276 (piping to xsel hung until typing ^C) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62285 (with --zero, cursor could be misplaced) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62341 (undoing formatting moved the cursor) Changes between v6.2 and v6.3: ------------------------------ Mike Frysinger (1): general: fix building for Windows Benno Schulenberg (42): build: add the --disable-maintainer-mode option to ./configure build: fix compilation for --enable-{tiny,nanorc,color} build: fix compilation when configured with --disable-color build: remove an obsolete check -- the dependent code was deleted bump version numbers and add a news item for the 6.3 release display: suppress spotlight yellow and error red when NO_COLOR is set docs: add an example binding for copying text to the system clipboard execute: clear an anchor only when the whole buffer gets filtered execute: don't crash when an empty buffer is piped through a command execute: stay on the same line number when filtering the whole buffer feedback: show extra warning when writing failed due to "No space left" files: do not change to a higher directory when the working one is gone files: show a warning when the working directory is gone (when used) files: when the working directory exists, still check its accessibility filtering: close all output descriptors, so that 'xsel' will terminate formatting: change cursor position only after saving it in the undo item gnulib: pull in the workaround for a build problem on NetBSD gnulib: update to its current upstream state justify: stay at the same line number when doing a full justification painting: colorize text also after an unterminated start match painting: look for another start match only after the actual end match painting: recalculate the multidata when making large strides or changes painting: stop coloring an extremely long line after 2000 bytes painting: tighten the check for a lacking end match on a colored line po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files syntax: xml: colorize /> properly, and colorize prolog tags differently syntax: xml: colorize user-defined entities differently tweaks: avoid a function call when two plain assignments will do tweaks: change the indentation of a list, to match other indentations tweaks: don't leave an orphaned temporary file behind when writing fails tweaks: elide an unneeded call of strlen() tweaks: exclude the extra truncation warning from the tiny version tweaks: make the triggering of the recalculation of multidata less eager tweaks: move the saving and restoring of flags to where it is needed tweaks: normalize the indentation after the previous change tweaks: prevent the adding of an unwanted newline in a different way tweaks: remove redundant braces, and add two translator hints tweaks: remove some stray spaces before a comma tweaks: simplify a bit of code, eliding two labels and three gotos tweaks: simplify a fragment of code, and fold two lines together tweaks: trim a few comments, rename a function, and reshuffle some code verbatim: with --zero, keep cursor in viewport when it was on bottom row -- Benno
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