2020.08.12 - GNU nano 5.1 "Cantabria"
• M-Bsp (Alt+Backspace) deletes a word backwards, like in Bash.
• M-[ has become bindable. (Be careful, though: as it is the
starting combination of many escape sequences, avoid gluing
it together with other keystrokes, like in a macro.)
• With --indicator and --softwrap, the first keystroke in an
empty buffer does not crash.
• Invoking the formatter while text is marked does not crash.
• In UTF-8 locales, an anchor is shown as a diamond.
2020.07.29 - GNU nano 5.0 "Among the fields of barley"
• With --indicator (or -q or 'set indicator') nano will show a kind
of scrollbar on the righthand side of the screen to indicate where
in the buffer the viewport is located and how much it covers.
• With <Alt+Insert> any line can be "tagged" with an anchor, and
<Alt+PageUp> and <Alt+PageDown> will jump to the nearest anchor.
When using line numbers, an anchor is shown as "+" in the margin.
• The Execute Command prompt is now directly accessible from the
main menu (with ^T, replacing the Spell Checker). The Linter,
Formatter, Spell Checker, Full Justification, Suspension, and
Cut-Till-End functions are available in this menu too.
• On terminals that support at least 256 colors, nine new color
names are available: pink, purple, mauve, lagoon, mint, lime,
peach, orange, and latte. These do not have lighter versions.
• For the color names red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta,
white, and black, the prefix 'light' gives a brighter color.
Prefix 'bright' is deprecated, as it means both bold AND light.
• All color names can be preceded with "bold," and/or "italic,"
(in that order) to get a bold and/or italic typeface.
• With --bookstyle (or -O or 'set bookstyle') nano considers any
line that begins with whitespace as the start of a paragraph.
• Refreshing the screen with ^L now works in every menu.
• In the main menu, ^L also centers the line with the cursor.
• Toggling the help lines with M-X now works in all menus except
in the help viewer and the linter.
• At a filename prompt, the first <Tab> lists the possibilities,
and these are listed near the bottom instead of near the top.
• Bindable function 'curpos' has been renamed to 'location'.
• Long option --tempfile has been renamed to --saveonexit.
• Short option -S is now a synonym of --softwrap.
• The New Buffer toggle (M-F) has become non-persistent. Options
--multibuffer and 'set multibuffer' still make it default to on.
• Backup files will retain their group ownership (when possible).
• Data is synced to disk before "... lines written" is shown.
• The raw escape sequences for F13 to F16 are no longer recognized.
• Distro-specific syntaxes, and syntaxes of less common languages,
have been moved down to subdirectory syntax/extra/. The affected
distros and others may wish to move wanted syntaxes one level up.
• Syntaxes for Markdown, Haskell, and Ada were added.
2019.03.24 - GNU nano 4.0 "Thy Rope of Sands"
• An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped.
• Smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default.
• A newline character is no longer automatically added at end of buffer.
• The line below the title bar is by default part of the editing space.
• Option --breaklonglines (-b) turns automatic hard-wrapping back on.
• Option --jumpyscrolling (-j) gives the chunky, half-screen scrolling.
• Option --finalnewline (-f) brings back the automatic newline at EOF.
• Option --emptyline (-e) leaves the line below the title bar unused.
• <Alt+Up> and <Alt+Down> now do a linewise scroll instead of a findnext.
• Any number of justifications can be undone (like all other operations).
• When marked text is justified, it becomes a single, separate paragraph.
• Option --guidestripe=<number> draws a vertical bar at the given column.
• Option --fill=<number> no longer turns on automatic hard-wrapping.
• When a line continues offscreen, it now ends with a highlighted ">".
• The halfs of a split two-column character are shown as "[" and "]".
• A line now scrolls horizontally one column earlier.
• The bindable functions 'cutwordleft' and 'cutwordright' were renamed
to 'chopwordleft' and 'chopwordright' as they don't use the cutbuffer.
• The paragraph-jumping functions were moved from Search to Go-to-Line.
• Option --rebinddelete is able to compensate for more misbindings.
• Options --morespace and --smooth are obsolete and thus ignored.
• The --disable-wrapping-as-root configure option was removed.
2018.01.29 - GNU nano 2.9.3 "Córdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks
that could occur when a typed space caused the word after
it to be pushed to the next line. It further makes macros
work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences,
adds the options -M and --trimblanks for the command line,
recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals,
no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible
witespace is turned on, fixes two corner cases when doing
replacements in a marked region, allows to open a named
pipe again when using --noread, and accurately detects
a needed color change when a line contains a start match
but not a corresponding end match any more. Plus some
other small fry.
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.
2017.01.10 - 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.
2016.10.29 - 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).
2016.02.12 - 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!
2015.07.05 - 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
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.
Too many changes to list here, because our pkgsrc version was really old!
please take a look at the NEWS/ChangeLog file.
Another change:
Georg Schwarz reported in PR pkg/26671 that nano requires glib to build
in his system (IRIX 5.3) and I know what's happening there...
nano.h checks for the functions snprintf()/vsnprint(), if they aren't
available, the glib functions are used instead, so put the glib dependency
if MACHINE_PLATFORM = IRIX 5.3 and closing PR.
No idea about IRIX 6.x, sorry.
Changes :
free_charptrarray, striponedir()
- Plug some memory leaks (Steven Kneizys).
read_file()
- Abort if we read a file of 0 lines (num_lines == 0), fixes BUG #70.
- Reverse tests to stop segfault on editing a new file of 0 lines
(David Benbennick).
do_int_speller()
- Fix zombie processes and spelling buffer issues (Rocco Corsi)
do_gotoline()
- Set placewewant if we actually move to a different line.
nanogetstr()
- Add NANO_HOME_KEY and NANO_END_KEY to the home and
end key code (fixes BUG #69).
bottombars(), onekey()
- Make bottom list dynamic with screen size (Guus Sliepen & Chris).
do_credits()
- Add Thomas Dickey.
strcasestr()
- Renamed to stristr since strcasestr has not been confirmed to
be detected properly on various Linux systems.
Updated POs : no nb it fr uk gl
Summary of changes:
- removal of USE_GTEXINFO
- addition of mk/texinfo.mk
- inclusion of this file in package Makefiles requiring it
- `install-info' substituted by `${INSTALL_INFO}' in PLISTs
- tuning of mk/bsd.pkg.mk:
removal of USE_GTEXINFO
INSTALL_INFO added to PLIST_SUBST
`${INSTALL_INFO}' replace `install-info' in target rules
print-PLIST target now generate `${INSTALL_INFO}' instead of `install-info'
- a couple of new patch files added for a handful of packages
- setting of the TEXINFO_OVERRIDE "switch" in packages Makefiles requiring it
- devel/cssc marked requiring texinfo 4.0
- a couple of packages Makefiles were tuned with respect of INFO_FILES and
makeinfo command usage
See -newly added by this commit- section 10.24 of Packages.txt for
further information.
- Better partial word checking code
- Add Meta-A as alternate keyystroke for ^^ for people with
non-US keyboards
- Replace hard coded ALT_G and ALT_H values in the replace
and goto shortcuts with their macro counterparts NANO_ALT_*_KEY
- Call tcsetattr() to restore the old terminal settings, so
tcsh can use ^C after suspend for example
- Move "right" increment to part where new line is created
- New Polish translation, and updates
