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131 Commits (699cacf7a4ef90224095ac2dcd9e052b8f74865c)

Author SHA1 Message Date
Benno Schulenberg 895d2b8e9c bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.3 release 2019-06-18 10:04:16 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 3bf04afa6d tweaks: specifically refer to the manual of GNU grep for more regex info 2019-06-09 12:30:35 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg fea1901592 docs: remove "--" from the default value of 'quotestr'
Adjust the documentation to the removal of "--" in the previous commit.
2019-06-08 17:48:44 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg f2c61c4b9a docs: mention the default value for 'errorcolor' 2019-06-07 11:24:51 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg c4e04eb682 docs: show double quotes where they are needed
Instead of saying that string parameters should be enclosed in
double quotes, just show the quotes in the relevant commands.

Also, rename the parameters, to better fit the subsequent description.
2019-06-07 11:15:02 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 941637615b docs: clarify that in nano regexes are extended regular expressions
And add a concise summary of the most important special characters.

This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56438.
2019-06-06 15:16:56 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 378aa8bc41 docs: slightly reword the notice about the changed defaults since 4.0 2019-06-05 19:40:15 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg edbdcb9b9a docs: add a light warning to the explanation of --nonewlines 2019-06-04 19:54:58 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 1ca9241eaa bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.2 release 2019-04-24 10:55:23 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 8a4639cdd6 docs: put the 'set guidestripe' option into its alphabetical position 2019-04-16 10:05:35 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 3a0a6b5db8 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.1 release 2019-04-15 09:33:07 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 82f1ce8ebf bindings: remove the jumpy-scrolling toggle entirely
It is still possible to use --jumpyscrolling on the command line or
'set jumpyscrolling' in a nanorc file, but a user will have to restart
nano when they decide they want chunky instead of smooth scrolling,
a decision that should be rather rare.

This frees up the M-S keystroke to be reused for toggling softwrap.
2019-04-09 17:46:21 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 209531a761 docs: remove all mention of --finalnewline, and undefault --nonewlines 2019-04-07 10:02:22 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 84d21b0972 tweaks: consistently use .sp instead of .PP to insert a blank line
And use plain .P to start a new paragraph.
2019-04-01 17:31:35 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg a1375474d9 docs: remove the AUTHOR section, per advice from 'man man-pages'
Also because most of nano has meanwhile been written by other people
than Chris.  And because authorship is meta-information, irrelevant
for knowing how to operate nano.
2019-03-25 15:55:34 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg d0cc75f197 docs: put paths and filenames in italics, per 'man man-pages'
Plus a few other text and formatting tweaks.
2019-03-25 15:31:47 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 0fccfc0373 docs: re-title the temporary section about the changed defaults
To avoid having both a NOTE and a NOTES section.
2019-03-25 15:22:30 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 3e4edb2a5a bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.0 release 2019-03-24 12:14:12 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 92ad431be4 tweaks: escape hyphens that must be hard hyphens in the man pages 2019-03-24 11:32:01 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 37477bfbb5 tweaks: slightly reword, for esthetics of the resulting Info document 2019-03-24 10:57:55 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 69601315c4 docs: add notes to draw attention to the changed defaults 2019-03-18 20:08:01 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg d5b21d7bd0 copyright: update the years for the FSF in the documentation too 2019-03-11 08:27:19 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 6e04d697a1 docs: describe the new options -J, --guidestripe, and 'set stripecolor' 2019-03-09 09:27:08 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 2c7d336711 bindings: rename 'cutwordleft' to 'chopwordleft', and similar for right
These bindable functions should not connote cutting, as they don't put
anything into the cutbuffer.
2019-02-24 17:31:40 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 5e769686fb docs: mention that 'cutwordleft' is bound to <Shift+Ctrl+Delete>
The default binding was made in commit e6429e78, half a year ago,
but the documentation was not adjusted.
2019-02-24 11:25:35 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg df4d181987 help, docs: say "Delete" when things don't go into the cutbuffer
Reported-by: Božidar Putanec <bozidarp@yahoo.com>
2019-02-24 11:00:06 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 00713a7c47 docs: deprecate the use of morespace, smooth, nonewlines, and nowrap 2019-02-20 16:34:29 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 60bdac2bbc docs: describe breaklonglines, emptyline, finalnewline, jumpyscrolling 2019-02-19 19:06:26 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 6c89815e8b docs: stop saying that --fill switches on automatic hard-wrapping
The two were decoupled in the previous commit.  Just say that --fill
sets the target width for both justifying and automatic hard-wrapping.
2019-02-18 09:41:56 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 2eb1960523 docs: mention that 'quotestr' enables the rewrapping of comment blocks
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 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
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'
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
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53785.
2018-12-03 10:25:55 +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)
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
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 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 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