2017.06.25 - GNU nano 2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from a suspension that was induced from the outside, allows negative line and column numbers on the command line, avoids some flickering when resizing the screen while in the file browser, opens files in the order they were mentioned on the command line, and does not pretend to have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT.
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-2.8.5.tar.xz https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-2.8.5.tar.xz.asc Specific bugs that were fixed in this release: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51124 (segfault when foregrounded after SIGTSTP) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51131 (misplaced cursor after foregrounding) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51134 (inopportune cursor with --constantshow) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51147 (some flicker during resizing in browser) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51173 (Ctrl+Left exiting from prompt) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51206 (theoretical segfault when stdin fails) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51207 (wrong order of showing files) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51208 (double "see see" in Info manual) Changes between v2.8.4 and v2.8.5: ---------------------------------- Benno Schulenberg (37): bindings: in the tiny version exclude word jumping from the prompts bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.5 release display: don't let a SIGCONT write anything to the screen display: don't show the cursor while we are busy calculating its position display: redraw title bar and edit window only when needed display: show the cursor position also when searching took a while docs: avoid a double "see" for cross references in the HTML manual docs: spell "title bar" and "status bar" correctly gnulib: update to its current state input: give an appropriate message when there are too many errors po: regenerate POT file and PO files startup: allow negative line and column numbers on the command line startup: allow positioning the cursor also when reading standard input startup: always open with the file that was mentioned first startup: don't crash when opening standard input would fail startup: don't mark the buffer as modified when in view mode startup: don't mark the buffer as modified when nothing was read startup: don't try placing the cursor when reading standard input failed startup: don't use position history when reading from standard input suspension: fake a SIGWINCH when coming back out of the background suspension: remove a duplicate setting of the HUP and TERM handler syntax: default: allow leading whitespace before a hash comment tweaks: adjust indentation after preceding changes tweaks: avoid compiler warning about implicit type tweaks: baptize the previous release tweaks: be consistent in the spelling of title bar and status bar tweaks: don't bother calculating the position when we won't show it tweaks: elide a function that should not be a separate one tweaks: elide a variable tweaks: frob a few comments, and elide and #ifndef tweaks: reduce the scope of three variables, and rename them besides tweaks: reduce the scope of two variables, and rename them too tweaks: rename a function and a variable, to better match what they do tweaks: rename a variable, and frob a couple of comments tweaks: rename two functions and a variable, and invert its logic tweaks: reshuffle some stuff, to put related things closer together tweaks: unglobalize the nodelay_mode variable -- Benno -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.