Benno Schulenberg
98b1f8f059
options: stop recognizing and ignoring -b, -e, -f, -j, and -q
...
This signals our break from trying to be as compatible with Pico as
possible. We were already incompatible with modern Pico in the -n
and -W options, and in several character-set and color options, so
ignoring those five options brought us very little.
Anyway, soon some of those options will be reused and will have the
effect of making nano look and behave more like Pico.
2019-01-25 11:22:56 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
38e3318e5f
tweaks: reword the description of the disadvantages of Pico
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Also reword a list of features to exclude the ones that only
make sense when contrasting nano with Pico.
2019-01-25 11:00:51 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
6aad99bd81
docs: stop implying that nano wants to be fully compatible with Pico
2019-01-25 10:50:14 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
757f558f3b
tweaks: renumber some FAQ items, to compensate for the deleted ones
...
Also, reshuffle one item, to have related items next to each other.
2019-01-23 20:59:30 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
1f9283ec82
docs: remove from the FAQ some items that are no longer relevant
2019-01-23 20:53:08 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
2eb1960523
docs: mention that 'quotestr' enables the rewrapping of comment blocks
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Inspired-by: David Griffith <dave@661.org>
2019-01-23 20:01:49 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
63db58cbfd
docs: adjust for the enhancement of the default quoting regex
2019-01-22 20:06:14 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
b596639f95
options: actually rename --rebindkeypad to --rawsequences (-K)
2018-12-31 18:35:46 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
0213f412d1
docs: say that --rebinddelete can correct both <Backspace> and <Delete>
2018-12-28 19:48:54 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
dc99610c36
docs: reword and reshuffle the description of --rawsequences
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It's not just about the numeric keypad, but about the interpretation
of all editing keys (arrows, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown, Insert, and
Delete), of the escape sequences that they produce.
2018-12-28 19:29:38 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
67c69b2298
options: rename long version of -K from --rebindkeypad to --rawsequences
...
To better describe what it does, and to have full contrast with the
--rebinddelete option: the latter can now be shortened to --rebind
without getting a conflict, and --rawsequences can be abbreviated
to simply --raw and still make sense.
2018-12-28 17:35:55 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
3121ee4b2e
options: stop recognizing and mentioning --quiet and 'set quiet'
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Those options have been a no-op and obsolete for over a year.
Just continue to accept and ignore -q, for some "compatibility"
with Pico.
2018-12-18 19:29:40 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
9dd6407bea
docs: correct the descriptions of 'speller' and 'linter' functions
...
Since the last release, the linter function is bound separately and
no longer masks or overrides the speller function.
2018-12-17 16:05:35 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
c0abcc6018
docs: harmonize the style of bindable-function descriptions
2018-12-10 11:57:14 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
3a79766da6
rcfile, docs: remove deprecated forms of two options and five bindables
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This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53785 .
2018-12-03 10:25:55 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
a9b4430888
docs: update the links in the FAQ to the mailing-list info pages
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This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55129 .
Reported-by: Peter Passchier <peter@passchier.net>
2018-12-02 20:05:32 +01:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
44ea37573a
docs: remove references to not being able to undo justifications
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Any series of justifications (and other edits) is now undoable.
2018-11-20 19:21:35 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
31fdd2908b
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 3.2 release
2018-11-11 16:42:46 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
2404474dce
tweaks: change a bunch of URLs to use 'https' instead of 'http'
2018-11-11 14:46:23 +01:00
Brand Huntsman
252f14796e
bindings: hard-bind the zap function to M-Del (Alt+Delete)
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So that the function is available in a default setup.
Signed-off-by: Brand Huntsman <alpha@qzx.com>
2018-11-04 11:47:03 +01:00
Brand Huntsman
ae3ec1784d
options: add --zap, that makes <Bsp> and <Del> erase a marked region
...
Using --zap or -Z on the command line, or 'set zap' in a nanorc file,
makes the <Bsp> and <Del> keys erase selected text (a marked region)
as they do in some other editors, and without affecting the cutbuffer.
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54837 .
Requested-by: Liu Hao <lh_mouse@126.com>
Signed-off-by: Brand Huntsman <alpha@qzx.com>
2018-11-04 11:46:57 +01:00
Brand Huntsman
5662a38802
new feature: a bindable 'zap', to erase text without changing cutbuffer
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This function allows the user to "make space": annihilating lines or
regions while keeping intact for pasting the stuff in the cutbuffer
that was cut or copied earlier.
Signed-off-by: Brand Huntsman <alpha@qzx.com>
2018-11-04 11:46:19 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
91155486c7
docs: document the slightly changed workings of the --view option
2018-10-23 19:29:18 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f442f91187
bindings: rename 'prevhistory' to 'older' and 'nexthistory' to 'newer'
...
Rename not only the bindable functions, but more importantly reword the
tags that are shown for ^P and ^N in the help lines: "Older" / "Newer",
because these are clearer and not awkward abbreviations.
2018-10-15 17:31:40 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
33d67d5cee
docs: give suggestions for alternative key bindings in the sample nanorc
2018-10-15 17:19:40 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
ddd033adaf
docs: remove a no-longer-needed suggestion from the sample nanorc
...
It would result in having both <Delete> and <Backspace> behaving as
Backspace, which seems senseless -- unless the <Delete> key produces
ASCII DEL and --rebinddelete is needed to make it behave as Delete.
In the latter case it would make more sense if --rebinddelete made
both rebindings: ASCII DEL to Delete and KEY_DC to Backspace, like
it used to be in the distant past, before commit 79a33bb3
.
2018-10-07 14:27:54 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f9134af504
docs, usage: mention that --showcursor now covers help texts too
2018-10-07 10:38:11 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
915064870f
tweaks: swap and reword two bullet points in the rnano manpage
2018-10-03 19:56:03 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
401c49e611
docs: update rnano manpage, as -R/--restricted now reads nanorc
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This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54770 .
2018-10-03 19:50:40 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
eb9111a575
docs: update the description of -R/--restricted, as it now reads nanorc
2018-10-02 19:30:51 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
031f255ffd
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 3.1 release
2018-09-18 19:27:31 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
8efdd08a86
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 3.0 release
2018-09-09 11:29:00 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
27d2db2d1f
tweaks: improve a couple of comments in the sample nanorc
2018-09-09 10:14:04 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
571676eb85
docs: improve a comment about rebinding <Backspace>
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And move it up, to give the now-final comment a bit more prominence.
2018-09-09 08:33:23 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
80bea3eb9b
docs: slightly reword the description of four bindable functions
2018-08-26 09:41:27 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
63b15275bd
bindings: remove the More-Space toggle entirely
...
It is so unlikely that a user will want to bind it that it
just clutters the help text (and the documentation).
2018-08-25 10:10:27 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
772c324f25
bindings: remove backup and new-buffer toggles (M-B, M-F) from main menu
...
These are available in the menus where they are relevant: the Write-Out
and the Insert menu, respectively. Having them duplicated in the main
menu is inconsistent and eats precious keystrokes. (Sorry, Chris.)
2018-08-25 10:07:28 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
bc42ae42a9
docs: the 'noconvert' bindable function was renamed to 'flipconvert'
...
Also, move it to sit with the other toggles of the Insert menu, and
remove its mention from among the main-menu toggles.
2018-08-25 10:05:21 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
8560a0a225
docs: mention that "normal" can be used to give things the default color
2018-08-10 19:42:31 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
5c179aae7d
docs: mention that the 'formatter' command has been superseded
2018-08-09 20:29:30 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
975b491235
dropping a feature: remove the ability to use the 'formatter' command
...
Since the last version, the user can filter an entire buffer through
an external command. This external command can also be a formatting
program, so there is no longer any need for this specific and special
formatter command.
2018-08-09 20:29:30 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
418bd3be34
rcfile: allow to rebind the Cancel function in the yesno menu
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This fixes the first part of https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54447 .
2018-08-05 20:01:47 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
9a47a9c4c0
rcfile, docs: no longer recognize nor mention 'set backwards'
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The option has been a no-op since 2.9.0. And now that the
^W/^Q/M-W/M-Q set is available, 'set backwards' is entirely
outdated.
2018-07-29 21:00:12 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
54a4123d4c
bindings: remove the 'searchagain' function entirely
...
The user is obliged to make use of 'findprevious' and 'findnext' instead.
Also, adjust the description of 'wherewas' to its wider availability.
2018-07-29 11:43:13 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
d04c8f88f1
docs: say that 'cutwordright' is now bound to <Ctrl+Delete> by default
...
Also, suggest to rebind ^H to 'cutwordleft' so that <Ctrl+Backspace>
will delete the word to the left of the cursor (on some terminals).
2018-07-22 19:27:50 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
7c9a4793dd
tweaks: properly escape "\" in a man page and "@" in a texi document
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Also make the involved sentences more precise.
2018-07-19 20:17:27 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
bfe65af6f3
bindings: bind M-Q to 'findprevious' by default, and M-W to 'findnext'
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This makes things symmetrical: ^W starts a forward search, ^Q starts
a backward search, M-W searches the next occurrence forward, and M-Q
searches the next occurrence backward.
The Tabs-To-Spaces toggle is moved to M-O, and thus the More-Space
toggle is no longer bound by default.
2018-07-18 19:18:45 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
eb84205426
bindings: rename two bindable functions: copytext to copy, uncut to paste
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To match the common names used for these functions, for consistency,
and because 'uncut' sounds too much like "undo the cut".
2018-07-13 19:46:56 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c2593c1c5a
docs: reshuffle a bindable function to a slightly better position
2018-07-13 19:46:56 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
4c02329205
docs: mention that "Ins" and "Del" are valid rebindable keys
...
Also, consistently refer to Latin letters and ASCII characters
where needed, and document more accepted characters.
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54071 .
2018-07-11 14:10:35 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
078265456c
docs: mention that also Ctrl increases the stride when selecting text
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The Alt key together with Shift is a special workaround for when
Shift+PgUp and Shift+PgDn don't work on the user's terminal. But
probably it is more common to use the Ctrl key together with Shift
to select larger pieces of text. So mention this possibility.
2018-07-10 15:58:41 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
1057ca7a16
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.8 release
2018-06-02 09:51:16 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
54cab02030
docs: improve the description of --nonewlines, and properly sort it
2018-06-01 15:54:08 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
2633114b8e
docs: add a missing double quote in the default brackets string
...
It was accidentally lost three years ago, in commit 7e1bc82d
.
Also improve the description of this option in the other documents.
2018-06-01 15:53:57 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
856322b01e
main: interpret only a double slash (//) as quoting, not a single one
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Otherwise the first line of a multiline /*...*/-comment would be
seen as quoted and thus *not* as the first line of a paragraph.
In the code, use "/{2}" to prevent the remainder of the line
getting colored as a comment.
2018-06-01 09:21:03 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a4e353799b
docs: make quotes around regexes bold, as they are part of the command
2018-05-31 12:07:12 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
64f28515fd
docs: remove quotes around the name of a syntax -- they are not needed
2018-05-31 11:25:21 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
b84dea9898
docs: improve description of 'speller' and related bindable functions
2018-05-30 20:38:27 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a1dc1376be
docs: describe what constitutes a paragraph
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Also fix a typo.
2018-05-30 10:32:26 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
6fe132194c
docs: improve the description of the --autoindent option
2018-05-30 10:29:31 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
0ea434b006
tweaks: reduce the abundance of the word 'toggle' in the Info manual
2018-05-30 10:01:45 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
cd8e932c65
main: add "/" to the quoting regex, to allow justifying //-comments
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And adjust the documentation accordingly.
2018-05-27 20:29:52 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
a6c0212158
bindings: add the "flippipe" bindable function
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So the toggle for piping to an external command can be rebound.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53987 .
2018-05-27 10:36:33 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
299e710845
docs, usage: make it clear that the argument of --quotestr is a regex
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In the past, the argument could be either a regex or a literal string,
so the wording was kind of vague. But nowadays we can count on having
regex support (through gnulib), so be more precise in the description.
2018-05-22 18:45:58 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
3628863f90
docs: remove mention of the quotestr for when regex support is lacking
...
Since version 2.8.0, nano will use (wnen needed) the regex routines
from gnulib, so mentioning the quotestr for when regex support is
lacking, has been obsolete and pointless for more than a year.
Also, remove some superfluous backslashes, use a non-breaking space
in the texinfo document, and order the regex consistently.
2018-05-21 20:08:19 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
09d8ee82b7
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.7 release
2018-05-15 08:48:00 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
dac3b25d16
docs: note a small difference with Pico in the default hard-wrapping
2018-05-14 12:10:38 +02:00
Mark-Weston
858663444e
new feature: an option to make the 'nextword' function stop at word ends
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When 'afterends' is set and Ctrl+Right or Shift+Ctrl+Right is pressed,
nano will stop at the ends of words instead of their beginnings.
Signed-off-by: Mark-Weston <markweston@cock.li>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
2018-05-10 11:32:01 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c0b15c2982
signals: don't trap segfault/abort when envvar NANO_NOCATCH is defined
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When the user wants to get a backtrace, the crash handler shouldn't
kick in.
2018-05-09 11:53:34 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f1530c7ba0
docs: add notes about deprecated options and function names
...
Also remove two notes that are obsolete by now.
2018-04-30 15:28:47 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
6a064503e5
docs: slightly improve the description of the file browser in the manual
2018-04-28 12:34:39 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
4d92dffb3a
bindings: rename constupdate to constantshow, cuttoend to cutfromcursor
...
This makes the names of these bindable functions equal to the names of
their corresponding options -- like for all the other toggles that have
a corresponding option.
2018-04-28 12:01:23 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
4c1c425bbb
bindings: add the 'linenumbers' bindable function
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This makes the line-numbers toggle rebindable, like all the others.
2018-04-28 11:44:53 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a0147c5a72
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.6 release
2018-04-27 10:56:10 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
27eccbec23
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.5 release
2018-03-29 09:59:13 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f9415e347a
docs: clarify how the Linux console is deficient: in the arrow keys
2018-03-28 19:34:26 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
e01bcddf16
docs: document the newly added color name "normal"
2018-03-28 14:03:52 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
336fa40055
docs: clarify what the scrollup and scrolldown bindable functions do
2018-03-17 14:27:23 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
3089a98169
tweaks: fix a typo and adjust some wording and formatting in the FAQ
2018-03-12 11:43:43 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
1b704e7c8c
tweaks: reduce the font size of the questions in the FAQ
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Make them smaller to make them sound less like shouting.
2018-03-12 11:25:03 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
efb9192ee5
docs: mention in the FAQ that <Shift+Insert> pastes from the clipboard
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This kind of addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53310 .
2018-03-12 11:21:26 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
c782b4cb72
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.4 release
2018-03-08 10:59:32 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
7f88eff96f
docs: mention that a key can be bound to a string
2018-02-28 17:28:16 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
48749a9500
docs: note also in the Info manual that text can be selected with Shift
...
And remove a detail that is untrue when 'set selectedcolor' is used.
2018-02-27 09:50:45 +01:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
aa41eb69c0
docs: mention that errorcolor does have default colors
...
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53225 .
2018-02-27 09:41:17 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
cb0289f0dc
tweaks: fix a copy-and-paste error
2018-02-24 13:31:59 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
b027263a37
small addition: allow customizing the color of an error message
...
The new option 'set errorcolor' allows the user to specify the color
combination for the status bar when an error message is displayed.
2018-02-23 12:35:17 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
ddbff6dcb2
tweaks: slightly rewrap the FAQ's table of contents
2018-02-04 18:20:13 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
467cc8edf3
tweaks: remove two deprecated options and six rebindable function names
...
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48992 .
2018-02-04 13:51:13 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
bb667beb5a
bindings: rename the bindable function 'gototext' to 'flipgoto'
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This brings it in line with the other three "flip" toggles.
2018-02-04 10:34:39 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
ae7366616f
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.3 release
2018-01-29 09:31:12 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
ddc1de1939
docs: remove the note about needing a recent ncurses for macros to work
...
After commit e739448c
, macros should work also when ncurses produces
escape sequences instead of keycodes.
2018-01-27 17:54:32 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
cb56a575fd
options: recognize -M and --trimblanks on the command line
2018-01-23 13:49:48 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
6a4d88cb4c
docs: update the FAQ for the changed default location of history files
...
And reword some things about translations and Unicode support.
2018-01-14 11:51:21 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
30f367e0db
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.2 release
2018-01-02 15:51:12 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
66fd6a5ab1
options: rename 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks', because it has morphed
...
The option now causes nano to trim trailing whitespace also when
hardwrapping occurs while the user is typing.
2017-12-06 20:38:13 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
800a997008
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.1 release
2017-11-27 19:06:26 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
0465adb9ce
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.0 release
2017-11-18 11:33:28 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
7ea13d4269
tweaks: correct two minor things in the documentation
2017-11-17 21:52:31 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
06049f5141
docs: update references to the nanorc files for the XDG changes
2017-11-17 21:40:54 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
4220854367
docs: mention that macros work correctly only on terminal emulators
2017-11-13 21:08:36 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
c3a11fb7ed
options: remove '--quiet' and 'set quiet', because they hide problems
...
If the user uses a single version of nano, they have no need for
--quiet. If they do sometimes use an older version and don't want
to see the warnings, they can use 2>/dev/null (they could make an
alias for that and put it before the call of nano).
2017-11-02 17:27:53 +01:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
2356693b81
docs: document the more everyday names of three bindable functions
...
List "browser", "pageup" and "pagedown" in the manuals; the first
because it matches "speller", and the latter two because they are
what these functions are commonly known by. The names "tofiles",
"prevpage" and "nextpage" are now undocumented, but they are still
recognized by the code, as they match the tags for these functions.
2017-10-25 17:44:13 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
4d35835189
docs: decribe the bindable functions 'recordmacro' and 'runmacro'
2017-10-19 21:37:41 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
fc36ff7275
options: retire 'set backwards' -- it's still recognized but a no-op
2017-10-15 10:45:22 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
ba65cd48cc
bindings: make ^Q and ^S do something useful by default
...
^S will be the first thing people will try for saving a file,
and ^Q is somewhat mnemonic because it is to the left of ^W:
it searches backward.
Make these keystrokes available also in the tiny version.
2017-10-14 20:34:43 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c7eecd74de
new feature: a bindable function that starts always a backward search
2017-10-14 20:30:46 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
80ed2568fc
tweaks: remove a comment from the docs that is no longer accurate
...
Date and version are updated to match each release, so the user does
not have to wonder whether the man page really describes the binary.
Also remove a bit of superfluous markup.
2017-10-12 21:17:39 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
aa45994bbb
build: let git ignore also the generated PDF file
2017-09-19 20:56:04 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
4aec1649f5
docs: remove another remark about indenting lacking undo capability
2017-09-13 19:44:31 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
6c2c6b58a4
docs: remove man page reference to indent/unindent lacking undo/redo
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This is no longer accurate.
2017-09-12 20:08:50 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a09eedf0a3
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.7 release
2017-08-27 09:37:01 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
4562401505
bindings: hard-bind Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext
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So that these functions have bindings by default, and easy bindings.
Add them to the help viewer too, so that searching backward becomes
possible there.
2017-08-14 10:34:15 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f2317cc64e
tweaks: a comma does not end a sentence, and is not part of a variable
2017-08-08 21:45:21 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
1c1cbae6bc
small addition: allow customizing the color of selected text
...
The new option 'set selectedcolor' applies to marked text, to the
currently selected file in the file browser, and to the highlighted
match during interactive search-and-replace.
2017-08-06 09:30:32 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
969e99bc85
tweaks: adjust spacing and wording in sample.nanorc
2017-08-06 09:08:02 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
8f2ac1b7f6
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.6 release
2017-07-21 09:51:22 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
e4a69f8b94
docs: move the descriptions of 'header' and 'magic' next to 'syntax'
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And reword them too, so that it is clearer what the mechanism is
for determining which syntax to use for a file.
2017-07-15 12:32:57 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
63c428ad08
options: rename --cut to --cutfromcursor, to be clearer
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Rename the corresponding rc-file option too, of course.
2017-07-14 16:06:52 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f4c3670f64
docs: reword the explanation of the 'syntax' command
2017-07-14 15:21:30 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
6d121cc81f
docs: improve some spacing, especially of the synopsis in the PDF
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And in the bargain improve some mark-up here and there.
2017-07-14 13:38:32 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
e57b755665
docs: use the @command and @option mark-up more consistently
2017-07-14 10:44:59 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
961294f533
docs: add some more mark-up to the Info document
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And rewrap the feature toggles, so that a title does not start
a sentence.
2017-07-13 22:17:29 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
46cec27b26
docs: use real cross references in the Info document
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And refer backward instead of forward.
2017-07-13 21:43:27 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
baa73d69e3
docs: improve cross references and mark-up in the Info document
2017-07-13 19:49:44 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
ac7a071893
options: recognize -a and --atblanks on the command line
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In nano, -a is only effective when also -$ is given, so this will
not conflict with Pico since Pico does not know the -$ option.
2017-07-07 13:07:10 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
bb4d0d548a
new feature: allow lines to be softwrapped at whitespace
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Extend get_softwrap_breakpoint() to break softwrapped lines on
whitespace when a flag is set. This flag is controlled by the new
rcfile option "atblanks". The '>' characters marking two-column
characters at the edge of the screen are disabled when it's on.
If get_softwrap_breakpoint() can't find whitespace in screen range, it
will break the line on the screen edge. (In this case, a blank can be
on the last column of the screen, but text can't, so that a blank on the
last column doesn't become invisible and possibly break the display.)
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?49959 .
Requested-by: Nicholas Boel <axxisd@gmail.com>
2017-07-07 13:07:10 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
30986db708
docs: mention that boldtext can be overridden also for function tags
2017-07-07 10:27:18 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
79971a309f
docs: remove the mention of backslashes for the argument of 'comment'
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Also remove the backslashes from the two syntaxes that contained them.
This completes the fix for https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51370 .
2017-07-07 10:15:17 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
747310562c
tweaks: avoid a failure with black diamonds in a PDF
2017-07-03 17:40:37 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
1ae97076cd
docs: make the guillemot and the middle dot appear correctly in HTML
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For the man page, encode them properly, and for the Info stuff,
just set the right document encoding.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51369 .
2017-07-03 13:03:54 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
09f516a58b
syntax: man, groff: fix the string that introduces a comment
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The comment marker is not «."» but «.\"», which requires three
backslashes to specify. Also adjust the documentation.
2017-07-03 11:07:21 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
025232b25b
docs: mention the default values for comment and whitespace directives
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Also, use proper mark-up for the examples.
2017-07-03 10:43:09 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
3719d8e208
docs: be more precise about when a dash is given instead of a filename
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The dash doesn't have to be the first non-option argument: it can
be anywhere among the filenames -- there can even be multiple ones
(but don't mention this explicitly).
2017-06-29 20:56:58 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
9ffd3c0222
docs: consistently describe the -U/-c and -r/-w overrides
2017-06-29 17:48:50 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c0a52372f1
docs: drop the cluttering Info-style links from the HTML manual
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Especially: get rid of the "Up: (dir)" link that points nowhere.
Also, add a horizontal line before the final Table of Contents.
2017-06-27 19:55:12 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
6520aa0079
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.5 release
2017-06-25 10:37:17 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
dbbc14e0ac
tweaks: be consistent in the spelling of title bar and status bar
2017-06-23 10:33:19 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
b4a955512e
docs: spell "title bar" and "status bar" correctly
2017-06-18 20:09:30 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
403e87c0a0
docs: avoid a double "see" for cross references in the HTML manual
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This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51208 .
2017-06-08 16:25:23 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
5907f8801b
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.4 release
2017-05-21 10:21:03 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
491e02f532
tweaks: reorder three items in the Info document
2017-05-19 21:09:02 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
afd8a4e804
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.3 release
2017-05-18 11:53:19 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
e1e15fd0f4
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.2 release
2017-05-04 10:24:54 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c1ebfa04ae
docs: in the FAQ, extend the answer to the pasting problem
2017-04-28 22:13:02 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
7b442ea4cb
tweaks: be more precise about what --disable-extra does
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Also, harmonize some configure-option descriptions,
add a slash after a subdir, and fix a typo.
2017-04-26 13:54:48 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a846a2c19f
docs: add an item to the FAQ, about pasting from Windows to a remote nano
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Also, add two missing configure options, and frob some other things.
2017-04-26 12:49:10 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
d6313c2f8c
tweaks: fix two typos
2017-04-24 20:29:41 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
ac1444578c
docs: harmonize the nanorc man page and Info document a bit
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And make the strings after "start=" and "end=" more readable.
2017-04-21 11:29:19 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
9a4c384afa
docs: reword the main paragraph of the man page
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Mention some things that really set nano apart from Pico.
Plus some other small tweaks here and there.
2017-04-19 20:31:04 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
bbc718633e
docs: mention that also numbercolor overrides boldtext
2017-04-16 19:30:40 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
1e8f6fd7a9
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.1 release
2017-04-12 10:11:45 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
0b93fff802
docs: correct an answer to a question in the FAQ
2017-04-11 21:10:07 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
1c74517629
docs: remove the self-referencing stuff and the changelog from the FAQ
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Furthermore, change an item header into a question, swap two items,
and tweak the formatting a bit.
2017-04-11 20:41:17 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
754c62c5cc
copyright: update the years, use ranges, and explain this usage
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The interval 2013-2017 for the Free Software Foundation is valid
because in those years there were releases with changes by either
Chris or David, and the GNU maintainers guide advises to mention
a new year in all files of a package, not just in the ones that
actually changed, and be done with it for the rest of the year.
2017-04-09 12:09:23 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
6d70ab11d6
docs: mention another difference with Pico in the Info document
2017-04-02 13:26:53 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
032030566c
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.0 release
2017-03-31 10:54:55 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
42ae3e377f
docs: mention some more differences with Pico in the Info document
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Mention the ability to use <Tab> in the search history, the ability
to restore the cursor position when reopening a file, the ability to
read output of a command, and the lack of file-managing commands in
the file browser.
2017-03-26 12:41:44 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
19b7021076
tweaks: suggest a separate color scheme for root
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And slightly change the existing one for normal users.
2017-03-23 19:28:33 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
da62ef8a43
tweaks: correct some formatting irregularities in the FAQ
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And modify a few wordings too.
2017-03-20 20:33:47 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
6d873d3760
startup: add option 'nopauses' to disable pausing after a warning
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This addresses a followup of https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50362 .
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2017-03-16 19:26:39 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
926fe5f789
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.7.5 release
2017-02-23 11:33:45 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
fb8fdcaa0a
tweaks: fiddle with some wordings in the texinfo document
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Also, add two cross references: one in words, and one with a link.
2017-02-12 12:06:44 +01:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
7fac9ec51c
docs: mention the ability to read from stdin
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Also, remove the special "+line,column" argument from among the options,
since it isn't an option -- put it in a separate paragraph instead.
2017-02-12 11:39:51 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
eba470a869
tweaks: normalize some paragraph formatting in the FAQ
2017-01-21 12:31:01 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
f119a90fe5
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.7.4 release
2017-01-10 11:29:34 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
4920030384
docs: snip some obsolete items from the FAQ, and normalize its dates
2017-01-09 21:43:59 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
54e6fe2b4a
build: install the Info and Html manuals even when 'makeinfo' is missing
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If the system on which nano is configured does not have the 'makeinfo'
program installed, the prebuilt and packaged nano.info and nano.html
should nevertheless be installed.
Also, the TEXINFOS primary has built-in rules for generating HTML files
from the texinfo sources, so an explicit rule is not needed.
This indirectly addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49969 .
2017-01-06 20:01:41 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
991e49a36a
docs: bring some air into the FAQ, so that <Ctrl+Up/Down> become useful
2017-01-03 14:00:21 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
f1b87f960c
build: rename the sample config file, so it will be colored like a nanorc
2016-12-30 22:05:01 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
b0ef2e2803
build: move the syntax files out of the doc/ directory
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They are not documentation, they are functional elements of nano.
2016-12-30 22:05:01 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
6981294c9d
build: move all documentation into a single directory
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There are just a handful of source files for the documentation --
it is wasteful and cumbersome to have these in separate directories.
Also: remove the French man pages -- they are too far out of date.
(And anyway, we should acquire a general framework for translating
the documentation.)
2016-12-30 22:05:00 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
293423bdda
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.7.3 release
2016-12-28 12:24:05 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
f4321250ef
docs: clarify the difference between "Esc Esc ddd" and "M-V xxxxxx"
2016-12-28 11:54:49 +01:00
Arturo Borrero González
2fbb71d555
syntax: nftables: add two new families, and add set references
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Signed-off-by: Arturo Borrero González <arturo@debian.org>
2016-12-23 09:47:44 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
7a8ae90dac
bump version numbers and add a news item for 2.7.2
2016-12-12 15:05:34 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
fd3423f79a
syntax: give the statistics part of a git patch a different color
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Also, be more selective when coloring a git diff line. And color
an svn index line too.
2016-12-10 17:53:53 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
0e01080983
binding: allow to rebind the word-completion function, and document it
2016-12-07 17:18:56 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
68a0314500
build: add configure option --disable-wordcomp to disable word completion
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(The variable 'pletion_line' is not conditionalized with this option, as
it would become messy. The compiler will probably be able to elide it.)
When using --enable-tiny, it is not possible to use --enable-wordcomp,
because the word completion function uses the undo system.
2016-12-07 17:02:25 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
f03f5d5b51
docs: correct and improve the description of --disable-wrapping
2016-12-04 17:14:11 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
eb68cd1c6b
syntax: avoid using black colors
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We should avoid defining color schemes that are unreadable on common
white-on-black or black-on-white terminals. Change the black in the
autoconf error strings to brightred for that reason.
2016-11-23 21:08:59 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
e472b72565
syntax: gentoo: various updates
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- make version highlight less blindly greedy and conform to real versions
- move version matching before USE matching to avoid hitting USE flags
that look like versions
- change USE regex to match the Gentoo PMS
- extend arch match to include more keywords
- make category matching more restrictive to avoid false positives
- drop operators =< and => that Gentoo doesn't support
URL: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49569
Reported-by: Konstantin Shakhnov <kastian@mail.ru>
2016-11-14 13:44:53 -05:00
Benno Schulenberg
8a66c820ab
syntax: don't leave the number after 'fill' and 'tabsize' in red
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Also, don't use ignore-case for things that don't contain letters.
2016-11-12 13:00:09 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
af0f81f71d
docs: mention that a foreground color can be bright
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Also replace some backslashed spaces because they hinder the
justification of the man page.
2016-10-30 10:03:06 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
04aab233d0
bump version numbers and add a news item for 2.7.1
2016-10-29 11:11:33 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
10c9093942
general: add the option -g/--showcursor, to match Pico
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The nanorc option already exists, but not the corresponding one
for the command line.
2016-10-27 11:34:41 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
3ed5ddba31
docs: remove a reference that was only valid on Debian systems
2016-10-23 17:22:30 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
6cacd1e320
tweaks: make several small adjustments to the documentation
2016-10-23 12:29:21 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
d9cae81a0e
docs: mention the existence of the toggles in the man page
2016-10-22 17:27:15 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
83ee1feda4
docs: add 'set linenumbers' and '--linenumbers' to the texinfo document
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Also mention the corresponding toggle (M-#).
2016-10-22 17:06:50 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c7610ba356
docs: add 'linenumbers' and 'numbercolor' to the sample nanorc
2016-10-22 13:49:13 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
de2aa4f24a
rcfile: add an option to customize the color of line numbers
2016-10-20 16:48:45 +02:00
Faissal Bensefia
de95ca68f7
new feature: the ability to show line numbers before the text
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It can be activated with --linenumbers on the command line or with
'set linenumbers' in a nanorc file, and it can be toggled with M-#.
Signed-off-by: Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
2016-10-20 16:47:52 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
815b326864
syntax: show another deprecated keyword (replace2) in red
2016-10-11 20:57:57 +02:00
Rishabh Dave
01bf034bb6
rcfile: reject rebindings that have no effect or have side effects
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Also, show in green only the ^ and M- combinations that are valid.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49097 .
Signed-off-by: Rishabh Dave <rishabhddave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
2016-10-11 19:46:18 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
add0d698b7
syntax: show deprecated keywords in red, and 'wordchars' in green
2016-09-11 12:22:02 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
b92d35d1f2
browser: add the option showcursor, to place the cursor on the highlight
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This lets users of braille displays find the selected item immediately.
This fulfills a request by Enrico Mioso.
See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-09/msg00025.html .
2016-09-11 09:41:52 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
3ddf6ff955
syntax: make the contents of the X-Bugs field in a PO file stand out
2016-09-06 10:58:03 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
d04c0b7555
docs: refresh some info in the FAQ
2016-09-03 21:46:22 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f13707fd1d
history: slate the search-history migration for removal
2016-09-03 21:04:17 +02:00