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Benno Schulenberg 6cd98e32f7 docs: document the new Sh-M-X format for binding <Shift+Meta+letter> 2020-01-23 11:11:34 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg aac3126183 docs: improve the description of which rc-files are read during startup 2020-01-19 13:27:41 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg afa4c6b9fc copyright: update the years for the FSF 2020-01-15 11:42:38 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg c00431134f bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.7 release 2019-12-23 11:15:53 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg b56db25a35 docs: mention that all keywords in a nanorc file should be in lowercase 2019-12-12 19:19:07 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 154742c5e3 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.6 release 2019-11-29 11:08:22 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 8637acb106 docs: correct the description of the 'spell' menu 2019-11-25 17:42:40 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 51a3f78d69 docs: mention that 'hunspell' is now the first default spelling program 2019-11-25 17:38:50 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 4281b6becb commands: rename 'fixer' to 'formatter', to be less misleading
The word "fixer" sounds too much as if the command would be able
to fix mistakes or correct errors.  Especially when seen next to
"linter", it sounds as if one does a syntax check and the other
fixes the found mistakes.  (Although the command might in theory
be used for this, it is not its intended purpose.)
2019-10-25 17:24:28 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg c51f5f4bff docs: mention that the 'nopauses' option is obsolete 2019-10-15 11:23:05 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg c63f4c1f58 docs: remove the note about the formatter having been removed
The 'fixer' command has taken the place of the 'formatter' command.

(Also, normalize a double blank line before a chapter.)
2019-10-14 10:30:04 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg b5c5cde0d4 docs: document the 'fixer' command, a per-syntax content arranger 2019-10-14 10:28:45 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg f813fd0f4d rcfile: allow binding also F17...F24
For historical reasons the rebinding code allows binding F13...F16,
which on most terminals are typable with Shift plus F1...F4.  But,
at least on an Xfce Terminal, Shift plus F1...F12 produce F13...F24.
On a Linux console, Shift plus F1...F8 produce F13...F20.  So: allow
to bind the full shifted F13...F24 range.  It costs no extra code
and makes things more rounded.
2019-10-07 16:23:40 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg e90b40e651 docs: add a note saying that rebinding ^M or ^I is not advisable
Also say that rebinding ^H is sometimes impossible, or when it's
made possible, that it rebinds the Backspace key too.

This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56994.
Reported-by: Tiago Almeida <tjamadeira@gmail.com>
2019-10-07 13:28:27 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 07c1e72216 tweaks: slightly reword some fragments in the manual's rebinding section 2019-10-07 13:01:18 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg c95e5362e6 docs: mention that color rules are applied in the order they are listed
Suggested-by: Tiago Almeida <tjamadeira@gmail.com>
2019-10-06 14:27:29 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 9a2ef3a542 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.5 release 2019-10-04 11:31:29 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 310c971d50 docs: describe the new syntax-specific 'tabgives' command 2019-09-25 19:42:16 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg aecbc6faa9 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.4 release 2019-08-25 10:29:14 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 55983ee9d1 docs: make the synopsis of --speller and 'set speller' more accurate 2019-08-16 18:50:49 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 94c9defde1 docs: slightly reword some of the descriptions around syntax highlighting 2019-08-09 19:16:16 +02:00
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
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
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'
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
Also make the involved sentences more precise.
2018-07-19 20:17:27 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg eb84205426 bindings: rename two bindable functions: copytext to copy, uncut to paste
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 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
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
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 cd8e932c65 main: add "/" to the quoting regex, to allow justifying //-comments
And adjust the documentation accordingly.
2018-05-27 20:29:52 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey a6c0212158 bindings: add the "flippipe" bindable function
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
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
Mark-Weston 858663444e new feature: an option to make the 'nextword' function stop at word ends
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 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 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