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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
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>
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
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 bfe65af6f3 bindings: bind M-Q to 'findprevious' by default, and M-W to 'findnext'
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'
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
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
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'
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
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
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
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
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