2024.09.05 - GNU nano 8.2 "Charlotte will climb walls!"
• At a Yes-No prompt, beside Y and the localized initial for "Yes", also ^Y is accepted. Similarly, ^N for "No", and ^A for "All". • A text-highlighting bug with Alt+Home/Alt+End is fixed. 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/v8/nano-8.2.tar.xz https://nano-editor.org/dist/v8/nano-8.2.tar.xz.asc Specific issues that were addressed in this release: https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/?65991 ({runmacro} discarded rest of string bind) https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/?65992 (Alt+Home/End did not highlight selection) Changes between v8.1 and v8.2: ------------------------------ Collin Funk (1): build: update a symbol that was renamed in gnulib Benno Schulenberg (23): bindings: at a Yes-No-All prompt, accept also ^A for "All" bindings: let the central numpad key (with Ctrl) center the current line bump version numbers and add a news item for the 8.2 release docs: do not quote the argument of 'include' statements in sample nanorc docs: mention former maintainership last among an author's contributions docs: mention the availability of ^Y, ^N, and ^A at a Yes-No prompt docs: trim stuff that is more than four years old from the changelog gnulib: update to its current upstream state macro: insert it in keystroke buffer without discarding latter's contents moving: for Alt+Home/Alt+End, refresh the screen when the mark is on po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files syntax: autoconf: colorize the keywords 'case', 'esac', and 'ifelse' too syntax: awk: add a missing "|" between "\?" and ":" syntax: awk: colorize escape sequences specially syntax: awk: rewrite a regex more densely, and add the missing ~ operator syntax: man: colorize also the .MT .ME .EX .EE .SY .OP and .YS macros syntax: nanorc: an unquoted argument of 'include' may not contain blanks tweaks: delete three redundant checks from the undo/redo code tweaks: improve or rewrap six comments, and add two missing ones tweaks: move a condition to the only place that needs it tweaks: rename a symbol, away from an obscure abbreviation tweaks: reshuffle a seldom-used function to the end of an if-else series tweaks: unwrap three lines that don't need to be wrapped -- Benno
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