2021.06.15 - GNU nano 5.8 "Why is it necessary to be special?" • After a search, the spotlighting is dropped after 1.5 seconds (0.8 seconds with --quick) to avoid the idea that the text is selected. • A + and a space before a filename on the command line will put the cursor at the end of the corresponding buffer. • Linter messages no longer include filename and line/column numbers. • Color name "grey" or "gray" can be used instead of "lightblack". • The color of the minibar can be chosen with 'set minicolor'.
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-5.8.tar.xz https://nano-editor.org/dist/v5/nano-5.8.tar.xz.asc Specific issues that were addressed in this release: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57393 (^/ looks better than ^_) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60537 (resizing during linter run crashed) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60570 (poor behavior on one-row terminal) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60596 (memory leak for automatic wrap) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60605 (wrong file size after automatic wrap) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60658 (searching had "undefined behavior") https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60660 (new file was wrongly tagged as "Mac") https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60663 (let a bare + mean "at EOF" [wish]) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60667 (stray letters after + were accepted) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60669 (+?string said "Search Wrapped") https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60668 ("lightnormal" was accepted) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60674 ("lightlime" was colored as valid) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60764 (heap buffer overflow on toggling pipe) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60766 (Execute was inaccessible with CUA) Changes between v5.7 and v5.8: ------------------------------ Hussam al-Homsi (1): bindings: allow copying text (with M-6) also when in view mode Benno Schulenberg (56): bindings: show either "^/" or "^-" in the help lines, instead of "^_" build: commit the LINGUAS file too while rolling a release bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.8 release display: when a message gets overwritten, note that it is cleared docs: add a relevant item to the news for the 4.3 release docs: add example bindings for uppercasing and lowercasing a word docs: improve the contact info and some line spacing in the PDF docs: make ^E access the Execute menu in the example CUA bindings docs: mention that "grey"/"gray" may be used as a synonym of "lightblack" docs: mention the new 'set minicolor' option docs: say thanks to the Icelandic and Slovak translators feedback: ensure that the reporting of DOS/Mac format is truthful gnulib: update to its current upstream state help: use smaller triangles for the arrows linter: block the resizing signal while reading output from the linter linter: strip filename and line plus column number from the message memory: move the correct number of bytes, and not one too many memory: prevent a leak when copying the leading quoting to the next line minibar: stay out of sight when the terminal has just one row options: accept 'set minicolor' for setting the color of the minibar po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files rcfile: allow using "grey" or "gray" as a synonym for "lightblack" rcfile: do not allow color name "normal" to have a prefix replacing: report the number of replacements also on a one-row terminal search: automatically drop the spotlighting after a few moments search: show "This is the only occurrence" also on a one-row terminal startup: allow using a bare "+" to mean put-cursor-on-last-line startup: do not accept stray characters after a "+" on the command line startup: skip drawing edit window when having message on one-row terminal startup: suppress "Search Wrapped" when using +? to search from EOF statusbar: ensure that "No further matches" does not get overwritten statusbar: on a one-row terminal, drop light messages after a few moments statusbar: suppress --constantshow when the terminal has just one row statusbar: suppress the cursor when the terminal has just one row syntax: nanohelp: avoid colorizing M-) in (M-) and M-" in "M-" syntax: nanorc: colorize "light" as valid only for the eight basic colors syntax: nanorc: colorize literal control codes, to make them stand out syntax: php: colorize the full short tag for echo (<?=) tweaks: avoid a compiler warning when configured with --enable-tiny tweaks: avoid the subtraction of two size_t variables becoming negative tweaks: condense and correct a comment, and move another tweaks: condense some code by putting all color names in a single array tweaks: drop an assignment that is already part of the called function tweaks: frob some whitespace, and rewrap a line tweaks: improve a comment, remove unneeded braces, reshuffle some lines tweaks: normalize the indentation after the previous change tweaks: prevent two more size_t subtractions from going negative tweaks: redraw only the affected line instead of doing a full refresh tweaks: remove a check that has become superfluous tweaks: remove a check that is not needed tweaks: rename a variable, for contrast with the function name tweaks: rename two functions, to get rid of an ugly _void suffix tweaks: reshuffle the coloring of color names, to remove some duplication tweaks: use a symbol instead of a hard-coded number tweaks: use two symbolic names instead of TRUE and FALSE, for clarity wrapping: when copying the quoting part, adjust the file size accordingly -- Benno
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