2017.08.27 - GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are
wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting
more predictable by retaining relative indentations,
allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes
in Python to not be followed by a character, does not
scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds
Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and
fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping
and boundary-crossing tabs. Enjoy.
Upstream changes:
2017 July 21
GNU nano 2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a new feature: the ability
to do softwrapping between words -- at whitespace --
instead of always at the edge of the screen. This can
be activated with -a or --atblanks or 'set atblanks'
together with the softwrap option. This release further
fixes a handful of rare display glitches, fixes a build
failure on AIX, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc
files, and renames the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor'
(please update your nanorc files before 2020).
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.
2017.05.21 - GNU nano 2.8.4 includes the nanorc man page again.
2017.05.18 - GNU nano 2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight
during interactive replacing, avoids build failures on AIX
and Solaris, fixes a crash on Solaris, speeds up backwards
searching, improves PHP syntax highlighting, and no longer
asks “save anyway?” when the user ^Q discards the buffer.
2017.05.04 - GNU nano 2.8.2 "Krats" adds another new feature: it makes
the ^G help texts searchable with ^W. Apart from that,
it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle
of verbatim input, avoids an unlikely crash when used
without UTF-8 support in some locales, avoids redrawing
the screen twice when switching between buffers while
line numbers are active, and works around a coloring
bug on musl. Plus tweaks to the documentation; plus
translation updates for fifteen languages.
2017.04.12 - GNU nano 2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS and
on musl, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when
double-width characters on row boundaries are involved,
shows double-width characters as ">" and "<" when split
across two rows, moves the cursor more predictably (at
the cost of sometimes putting it on the second "half"
of a character), avoids creating lines that consist of
only blanks when using autoindent, makes ^Home and ^End
go to the start and end of the file (on terminals that
support those keystrokes), places the cursor better when
linting, lets the linter ask only once whether to open
an included file, and adds bindings for ^Up and ^Down
in the file browser. Don't sit on your hands.
2017.03.31 - GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in
softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from
visual row to visual row instead of jumping between
logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to
the start and end of a row, and only when already
there, then to the start and end of the logical line.
Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead
of always per logical line. On an entirely different
front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build
on more platforms. In short: there were many internal
changes, not many user-visible ones (apart from the
new softwrap navigation). The conversion to gnulib
was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by
David Ramsey.
the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things
when multiline regexes with identical start and end are
involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches,
does replacements at the edges of a marked region right,
no longer hides double-width characters at the head of
softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at
startup, and documents the ability to read a file from
standard input. Come tickle my ears.
2017.01.10 - GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly
manner again (bug was introduced in previous version),
sets the preferred x position for vertical movements
more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in
softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your
system lacks 'makeinfo', and corrects the behavior of
the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches.
2016.12.28 - GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs:
your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain
newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching
between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes,
makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a
Linux console, is more resistant against malformations
in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is
typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL.
Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an
unlocked file just after saving a new one. That's it.
Tastes great with thick butter.
2016.12.12 - GNU nano 2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature:
the ability to complete with one keystroke (^] by default)
a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in
the current buffer. Besides, this release fixes two bugs
related to using line numbers in softwrap mode, allows to
use the PageUp and PageDown keys together with Shift on
VTE-based terminals, stops the help lines from flickering
during interactive replacing, makes a "set fill" override
an earlier "set nowrap", properly restores the selected
region after an external spell check, and improves a few
other tidbits. If you should find any more bugs, please
run 'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there.
2016.10.29 - GNU nano 2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often-asked-for feature: the
ability to display line numbers beside the text. This can
be activated with -l or --linenumbers on the command line,
or with 'set linenumbers' in your nanorc, or toggled with
M-#. The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the
option 'set numbercolor'. This release furthermore fixes
some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode, is more strict
in the parsing of key rebindings, and marks a new buffer
as modified when the output of a command (^R ^X) has been
read into it. Come and check it out!
2016.09.01 - GNU nano 2.7.0 "Suni" adds a new feature: allowing text to be
selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys.
Besides that, nano now works also when run in very tiny
terminals (down to one line, one column), and improves
the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces. Not much,
but it's time to get it out there.
2016.08.10 - nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on
a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very
first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it
holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits
(when using the default speller), fixes a small sorting bug
in the file browser, makes searching case-insensitively in
a UTF-8 locale a little faster, and doesn't enter invalid
bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Santé!
2016.07.28 - nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the
keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks
of text, and the option 'wordchars' for specifying which
characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered
word-forming. Further, it provides feedback during Unicode
input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which
must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the
window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after
having been suspended, and replaces the beginning-of-line
anchor (^) just once per line. There are also several tiny
improvements in screen rendering and key handling. Come get
your hair tousled!
2016.06.27 - nano 2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update, but also
adds one little feature (the ability to use negative numbers
with Go To Line: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom),
includes syntax highlighting for Rust, and fixes three tiny
bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren't
even worth mentioning).
2016.06.17 - nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and
some of them not so little. It improves moving about in
the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell
checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with
default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer,
shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor
is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if
there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes
when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename
on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches,
and allows to abort re-searches. Among bunches of other
things. It is worth the trouble to upgrade.
2016.02.25 - GNU nano 2.5.3 "Alphys" is released. This release
contains fixes for bugs like: stray cursor positioning
errors, many many memory leaks including file reading,
using the file browser, searching for multi-byte characters,
history completion, and many other places.
New features include the ability to trim whitespace
from the ends of lines when justifying text, see nanorc(5)
option justifytrim for deets. As always thank you for your
continued support of nano, and keep sparing.
2016.02.12 - GNU nano 2.5.2 is carrying too many dogs. This release includes
several fixes for various memory leaks, position history
size growth, and a long standing issue with using
nano under sudo creating root-owned files. There are also
the usual bevy of documentation and other miscellaneous
fixes and touch ups. Upgrade today while supplies last,
operators are standing by!
2016.01.11 - GNU nano 2.5.1 "Salzburg" is released. It includes fixes
for a syntax-highlighting bug and a positionlog bug, it
disables a time-eating multiline regex in the C syntax,
and it adds an escape hatch to the WriteOut menu when
--tempfile is used: the discardbuffer command, ^Q. It
also has translation updates for fifteen languages, and
a small fix in the softwrap code. So... you are heartily
invited to upgrade. Enjoy!
2015.12.05 - GNU nano 2.5.0 "Karma", the first release of the 2.5 series,
is now available. Please note that as of this release,
there will no longer be separate stable and unstable
branches. The development team will prioritize bug fixes
as needed, and make new releases in proportion to the
severity of the bugs which are fixed.
This release includes all of the fixes now in
2.4.3, as well as color syntax highlighting improvements,
undo fixes, and many more improvements! Thank you for
using nano!
2015.11.18 - GNU nano 2.4.3 "Apocalypse" is now available for your
downloading pleasure. This release includes a myriad
of fixes including several memory leaks, issues with
color syntax higlighting, search/replace, file
insertion and help menu bugs. Many thanks to
Benno Schulenberg for tireless efforts on the vast
majority of fixes for some time now. As always please
report bugs via the Savannah page, and remember to
Share and Enjoy.
Problems found with existing distfiles:
distfiles/javascript-2.1b1.el
distfiles/yEd-3.14.2.zip
No changes made to the javascript-mode or yEd distinfo files.
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
2015.07.05 - GNU nano 2.4.1 "Portorož" is released. This release
includes several fixes, including the ability to resize
when in modes other than the main editing window,
proper displaying of invalid UTF-8 bytes, new syntax
definitions for Elisp, Guile, and PostgreSQL, and
better display of shortcuts in the help menu and file
browser. Thanks for your patience and using nano!
2015.04.14 - GNU nano 2.4.1 "Glitch Gremlin" is released. This release
includes several fixes for issues with the file browser
menu, linter and formatter functions, spell checker,
undo/redo with some specific marked-cutting situations,
and some small improvements to the color syntax
highlighting definitions. There are also various
documentation and code comment updates included, and
finally, fixes for compilation on non-GNU/Linux systems
and certain configure combinations. Toasters!
2015.03.22 - GNU nano 2.4.0 "lizf" is released. This is the first
stable release in many years, and brings together many
new features from the 2.3 series, including:
a fully functional undo system (now enabled by default),
vim-compatible file locking, linter support, formatter
support, syntax highlighting flexibility, and many fixes
for issues reported since 2.2. Many sincere thanks
to all of the bug reports, patches, well wishes and
contributions from everyone who has continued to
support us. Thank you for using nano!
2015.02.27 - GNU nano 2.3.99pre3 "Ashley" is released. This is likely
to be the last release before the next major (2.4.0)
release. Please test it out and send us any feedback
via the Savannah bug page for nano
(https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano). This
release includes fixes for rebinding toggles via
nanorc, several memory alignment fixes, and documentation
and build updates. As always thank you for using
nano - Share and Enjoy!
2015.02.06 - GNU nano 2.3.99pre2 "Snowblind" is released. This release
contains only fixes, including: a long-standing problem
with cutting in nano-tiny, several memory alignment
improvements, and issues with leftover file locks. Please
keep reporting bugs so we can get a happy and healthy
2.4.0 soon. Thanks for using nano!
2015.01.06 - GNU nano 2.3.99pre1 "Junior" is released. As the first
2.4 release candidate there will be fewer new features
but many bugfixes going forward. This release contains
new support for language reformatters like Go's gofmt
command which takes the place of the spelling checker.
Fixes in this release include many syntax highlighting
fixes and improvements, and documentation formatting updates.
As always please report bugs via the Savannah bug page for
nano (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano), so we can
release a super awesome and bug-free 2.4.0 soon!
2014.07.17 - GNU nano 2.3.6 "Columbo" is released. This release
contains a fix for installing internationalization
files. Also included are scattered documentation
(in particular man page) fixes, and a few touch ups
to syntax highlighting definitions. Oh, just one
more thing, thanks for using nano!
2014.07.11 - GNU nano 2.3.5 "lucky day" is released. This release
contains many visible and under-the-hood fixes for
components such as file locking, more fixes to the
undo system, and you no longer have to explicitly ask
nano to have undo/redo support as it now defaults to
being enabled. Other notable fixes include a better
handling of --tempfile mode, and better handling of
command line arguments when also attempting to specify
+<line number>. As always, please file any bugs you
find at the Savannah page for nano, at
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?42639 and
thanks for using nano.
2014.06.02 - GNU nano 2.3.4 won't leave you high, won't leave you dry. This
release contains only a small number of fixes, but in
particular allows nano to compile on non-UTF8 curses
implementations (i.e. libncursesw). Other small fixes to
the undo implementation and the default syntax config are
also included. As always, Share and Enjoy!
2014.05.28 - GNU nano 2.3.3 is in its right place. This release contains
many many improvements to the core system, including
substantial improvements to the undo/redo code, UTF-8
handling, the configure script, and display of shortcuts
on very wide terminals, New features include the
ability to write to named pipes (--noread), as well as
linter support (see the nanorc man page for details). Also
included are much improved syntax highlighting code, and
configurations for JSON, texinfo, Go, and a default syntax
for catch all highlighting. Finally, nano now has the
ability to set the color of the title bar, status bar, and
shortcut keys (e.g. "^X") and their descriptions. Again
see the nanorc page for details. There's much more, too
much to include here, but please keep those reports and
general feedback coming! Thank you for helping us help
you help us all.
2013.03.22 - GNU nano 2.3.2 "Annoy your coworkers for fun and profit" is
released. This release introduces vim-style file locking
(though not backup/restore), useful when using nano
in a multi-editor environment. Feedback is welcome if
you run into any issues with this new code. Other new
features include additional support for word boundary
checking when cross compiling, fixes for trying to go to
an invalid line number, and the usual documentation
tweaks.
2011.05.10 - GNU nano 2.3.1 "I'm in space" is released. This
release includes some fixes for the new libmagic code, as
well as a fix for improper character counts when using
auto-indent. Also included are new syntax highlighting
definitions for RPM spec and lua files. Thanks for
using nano and keep circulating the tapes.
2011.02.26 - GNU nano 2.3.0 "Septic surprise" is released. This first
release in the 2.3 unstable series brings several new
features. First, libmagic support for syntax highlighting
has been added on top of the existing file extension
and header support already available. Secondly, cursor
position can be saved between editing sessions with
the -P or --poslog command-line flag, or via "set poslog"
in your .nanorc. Also included are some fixes for
compilation with g++, and better handling of issues
writing the backup file, which should reduce the need
for the 'set allow_insecure_backup" nanorc option.
Don't stop, get it get it, don't stop, get it get it.
* Replace PKG_LEGACY_OPTS with PKG_OPTIONS_LEGACY_OPTS
Changelog:
2010.11.22 - GNU nano 2.2.6 "Pimp my BBS" wants you to go to
www.desertbus.org and donate a few bucks for the great
Child's Play Charity! This is just a small release to
update a bug where restricted mode was not particularly
restricted since key bindings were introduced. It also
signals the return of win32 builds which now feature
nanorc support; please see the FAQ for details of how
to enable it, this feature is a bit of a kludge for now.
Remember that when all else fails, USE SPACE JUMP.
2010.08.05 - GNU nano 2.2.5 "Inactivity timeout" is now available.
This release includes slightly less restrictive checkng
when writing files in strange environments (e.g.
when being used out of crontab). For very strange situations
(such as where you cannot change the permissions on the
file you're writing, there is a new rc file option
"allow_insecure_backup" to be even more permissive and
allowing the write to proceed. Also included are
some syntax highlighting updated, and that is about it.
Keep fighting the good fight children.
Patches for NetBSD curses no longer need.
2007/12/20 - GNU nano 2.0.7 keeps its balance. This release fixes
several bugs, among others: a segfault and several
cursor positioning problems when uncutting text or
inserting files into the current buffer; a problem where
the total number of characters would be miscalculated
when replacing single-byte characters with multibyte
ones; several minor issues with the statusbar prompt
involving text display and mouse support; and several
oddities when tab-completing in the middle of a line.
It also improves autodetection of DOS and Mac format
files, properly supports the mouse wheel when using a
version of ncurses built with the --enable-ext-mouse
option, fixes some problems under NetBSD curses, adds a
lot of translation updates, and adds more minor
documentation updates. Slang curses emulation support
has also been changed to turn off all the options that
--enable-tiny does, as it's hopelessly broken otherwise.
Finally, nano is now licensed under the GNU GPL version
3 or later, and its documentation is now dual-licensed
under the GNU GPL version 3 or later and the GNU FDL
version 1.2 or later. Have fun.
Based on patch provided by Jason White in PR 37133.
* Added patch to work with NetBSD's curses.
* Added ncuesesw option.
* IRIX now require glib2, not glib.
The 2.0 release of GNU nano is a major leap forward in usability and
features, building on the 1.3 branch. The following improvemens and features
are available in version 2.0 include:
* UTF-8 support.
* Improved color syntax highlighting.
* Copy text without cutting..
* Verbatim input mode.
* Repeat last seach w/o confirmation (Meta-W)
* Spell check/replace selected text only
* Indent marked text
* Move to beginning/end of paragraph
* Search within the file browser
* Mixed file format auto-conversion
Based on patch provided by Jason White in PR 32859.
GNU nano 1.2.5 - 2005.05.15
- files.c:
open_prevfile(), open_nextfile()
- Translate the "New Buffer" string when displaying "Switched
to" messages on the statusbar. (DLR)
input_tab()
- Fix snprintf() call so that we don't segfault when trying to
complete a filename containing %'s. (Ulf H<E4>rnhammar)
- global.c:
shortcut_init()
- Move the "Cancel" shortcut up so that it's just after the "Get
Help" shortcut, for consistency with the other shortcut lists.
(DLR)
- nano.c:
do_int_spell_fix()
- Move the REVERSE_SEARCH flag toggling into the NANO_SMALL
#ifdef, since the tiny version of nano doesn't support reverse
searching. Also, turn the USE_REGEXP flag off during spell
checking in order to avoid a potential segfault. (DLR)
quote_length()
- Fix problem where quoted justify wouldn't work if HAVE_REGEX_H
wasn't set. (David Benbennick)
main()
- Interpret the escape sequences Esc O F and Esc O H as End and
Home, respectively, as nanogetstr() does. Also, don't
interpret Esc O z as a "NumLock glitch" value. (DLR)
- Call setlocale() outside the ENABLE_NLS #ifdef, since UTF-8
support won't work properly if the locale isn't set, whether
NLS is enabled or not. (Junichi Uekawa)
- winio.c:
blocking_wgetch()
- New function used in place of blocking wgetch() calls. If we
get ERR when using blocking input, it means that the input
source that we were using is gone. In this case, call
handle_hupterm(), so that nano dies gracefully instead of
going into an infinite loop. (DLR, found by Jim Uhl)
get_page_start()
- For consistency, tweak so that scrolling always occurs when we
try to move onto the "$" at the end of the line, as opposed to
(a) when we move onto the "$" at the end of the line on the
first page and (b) when we move onto the character just before
the "$" on subsequent pages. (DLR)
PKGLOCALEDIR and which install their locale files directly under
${PREFIX}/${PKGLOCALEDIR} and sort the PLIST file entries. From now
on, pkgsrc/mk/plist/plist-locale.awk will automatically handle
transforming the PLIST to refer to the correct locale directory.
