2025.04.02 - GNU nano 8.4 "Five Miles Out"
• Bracketed pastes over a slow connection are more reliable. • Tabs in an external paste at a prompt are not dropped. • Feedback occurs when the cursor sits on a Byte Order Mark. • The Execute prompt is more forgiving of a typo. 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-8.4.tar.xz https://nano-editor.org/dist/v8/nano-8.4.tar.xz.asc Specific issues that were addressed in this release: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66637 (retain answer after mistake [wish]) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66858 (extra tilde after paste over ssh) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66892 (pasting at a prompt ignored tabs) Changes between v8.3 and v8.4: ------------------------------ Brand Huntsman (1): files: improve the wording of the normal file-writing prompts Benno Schulenberg (41): bump version numbers and add a news item for the 8.4 release copyright: update the years for the FSF docs: add a suggestion to the FAQ on how to configure nano for git docs: change two interface colors in the sample nanorc docs: improve the description of the `constantshow` bindable function docs: in the FAQ, replace an old item with an item about Byte Order Marks docs: replace a word that is better not used in the plural docs: use proper emdashes instead of double hyphens: "--" => "\(em" execute: retain what the user typed before a tool was invoked feedback: warn when the cursor sits on a Byte Order Mark (BOM) gnulib: update to its current upstream state input: adjust file browser and help viewer for changed bracketed pastes input: implement bracketed pastes in a different manner input: make bracketed paste more robust against loss of closing sequence input: remove a special-case workaround input: remove single-keycode detection from the bracketed-paste routine input: robustness is good, but dropping a key code is not a good idea input: wait a bit for "~" when bracketed-paste sequence is incomplete po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files prompt: accept tabs in an external paste as literal tabs prompt: beep when an external paste contains a command code syntax: groff: highlight the zeroeth macro argument too syntax: man: highlight some escapes, like \& and \(em, specially syntax: po: colorize also a 'msgctxt' line, and the 'c++-format' flag syntax: po: colorize also format specifiers like "%.6f" syntax: po: colorize also format specifiers like "%<PRIu64>" syntax: po: colorize also Python's "%(name)x" format specifiers syntax: po: colorize also the %llu and %hhi format specifiers syntax: po: colorize also the Python-specific conversion specifier "%r" tweaks: add a translator hint for the three changed file-writing prompts tweaks: add missing closing quotes, as reported by `mandoc -T lint ...` tweaks: avoid running tolower() on an out-of-range value tweaks: change the man-page markup of options that take an argument tweaks: condense a fragment of code tweaks: consistently use "\fR" for switching back to normal, roman font tweaks: prevent some color keywords from getting hyphenated in man page tweaks: prevent some more keywords from getting hyphenated tweaks: remove an unwanted newline from a debugging message tweaks: remove three redundant pairs of parentheses from a nanorc regex tweaks: remove two commented-out lines and two unused variables tweaks: swap two fragments of code, to allow unwrapping a line -- Benno
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