c00431134f
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.7 release
2019-12-23 11:15:53 +01:00
076eb6f6af
docs: mention that a negative number after "+" counts from the end
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A negative line number given on the command line counts from the end
of the relevant file (-1 meaning the first line from the bottom),
and a negative column number from the end of the relevant line.
The feature was added in version 2.8.5 but not mentioned in the manual.
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57342 .
Suggested-by: Andreas Schamanek <schamane@fam.tuwien.ac.at>
2019-12-02 17:00:35 +01:00
154742c5e3
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.6 release
2019-11-29 11:08:22 +01:00
51a3f78d69
docs: mention that 'hunspell' is now the first default spelling program
2019-11-25 17:38:50 +01:00
9a2ef3a542
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.5 release
2019-10-04 11:31:29 +02:00
aecbc6faa9
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.4 release
2019-08-25 10:29:14 +02:00
a06b921f12
docs: document the search-at-startup feature (+/string or +?string)
2019-08-20 19:22:25 +02:00
55983ee9d1
docs: make the synopsis of --speller and 'set speller' more accurate
2019-08-16 18:50:49 +02:00
895d2b8e9c
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.3 release
2019-06-18 10:04:16 +02:00
fea1901592
docs: remove "--" from the default value of 'quotestr'
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Adjust the documentation to the removal of "--" in the previous commit.
2019-06-08 17:48:44 +02:00
378aa8bc41
docs: slightly reword the notice about the changed defaults since 4.0
2019-06-05 19:40:15 +02:00
edbdcb9b9a
docs: add a light warning to the explanation of --nonewlines
2019-06-04 19:54:58 +02:00
1ca9241eaa
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.2 release
2019-04-24 10:55:23 +02:00
3a0a6b5db8
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.1 release
2019-04-15 09:33:07 +02:00
1fe3e2ed69
docs: mention that -b is the opposite of -w also in the latter's item
2019-04-14 08:49:25 +02:00
90cbdbbe75
docs: mention that M-S now toggles softwrap and M-N line numbers
2019-04-11 17:46:19 +02:00
209531a761
docs: remove all mention of --finalnewline, and undefault --nonewlines
2019-04-07 10:02:22 +02:00
84d21b0972
tweaks: consistently use .sp instead of .PP to insert a blank line
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And use plain .P to start a new paragraph.
2019-04-01 17:31:35 +02:00
a1375474d9
docs: remove the AUTHOR section, per advice from 'man man-pages'
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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
d0cc75f197
docs: put paths and filenames in italics, per 'man man-pages'
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Plus a few other text and formatting tweaks.
2019-03-25 15:31:47 +01:00
0fccfc0373
docs: re-title the temporary section about the changed defaults
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To avoid having both a NOTE and a NOTES section.
2019-03-25 15:22:30 +01:00
d0a7e6e6a6
docs: give the FILES section in the man page its canonical title
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Suggested-by: Michael Siegel <msi@malbolge.net>
2019-03-25 14:59:28 +01:00
3e4edb2a5a
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.0 release
2019-03-24 12:14:12 +01:00
92ad431be4
tweaks: escape hyphens that must be hard hyphens in the man pages
2019-03-24 11:32:01 +01:00
37477bfbb5
tweaks: slightly reword, for esthetics of the resulting Info document
2019-03-24 10:57:55 +01:00
69601315c4
docs: add notes to draw attention to the changed defaults
2019-03-18 20:08:01 +01:00
d5b21d7bd0
copyright: update the years for the FSF in the documentation too
2019-03-11 08:27:19 +01:00
6e04d697a1
docs: describe the new options -J, --guidestripe, and 'set stripecolor'
2019-03-09 09:27:08 +01:00
3270250184
docs: mention that --morespace and --smooth are obsolete and ignored
2019-02-19 19:34:34 +01:00
f6c767a372
docs: describe the four new options (-b, -f, -j, -e)
2019-02-19 17:48:43 +01:00
6c89815e8b
docs: stop saying that --fill switches on automatic hard-wrapping
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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
98b1f8f059
options: stop recognizing and ignoring -b, -e, -f, -j, and -q
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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
6aad99bd81
docs: stop implying that nano wants to be fully compatible with Pico
2019-01-25 10:50:14 +01:00
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
63db58cbfd
docs: adjust for the enhancement of the default quoting regex
2019-01-22 20:06:14 +01:00
0213f412d1
docs: say that --rebinddelete can correct both <Backspace> and <Delete>
2018-12-28 19:48:54 +01:00
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
67c69b2298
options: rename long version of -K from --rebindkeypad to --rawsequences
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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
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
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
31fdd2908b
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 3.2 release
2018-11-11 16:42:46 +01:00
2404474dce
tweaks: change a bunch of URLs to use 'https' instead of 'http'
2018-11-11 14:46:23 +01:00
ae3ec1784d
options: add --zap, that makes <Bsp> and <Del> erase a marked region
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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
91155486c7
docs: document the slightly changed workings of the --view option
2018-10-23 19:29:18 +02:00
f9134af504
docs, usage: mention that --showcursor now covers help texts too
2018-10-07 10:38:11 +02:00
eb9111a575
docs: update the description of -R/--restricted, as it now reads nanorc
2018-10-02 19:30:51 +02:00
031f255ffd
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 3.1 release
2018-09-18 19:27:31 +02:00
8efdd08a86
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 3.0 release
2018-09-09 11:29:00 +02:00
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
1057ca7a16
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.8 release
2018-06-02 09:51:16 +02:00
54cab02030
docs: improve the description of --nonewlines, and properly sort it
2018-06-01 15:54:08 +02:00
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
6fe132194c
docs: improve the description of the --autoindent option
2018-05-30 10:29:31 +02:00
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
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
3628863f90
docs: remove mention of the quotestr for when regex support is lacking
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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
09d8ee82b7
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.7 release
2018-05-15 08:48:00 +02:00
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
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
a0147c5a72
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.6 release
2018-04-27 10:56:10 +02:00
27eccbec23
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.5 release
2018-03-29 09:59:13 +02:00
f9415e347a
docs: clarify how the Linux console is deficient: in the arrow keys
2018-03-28 19:34:26 +02:00
c782b4cb72
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.4 release
2018-03-08 10:59:32 +01:00
48749a9500
docs: note also in the Info manual that text can be selected with Shift
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And remove a detail that is untrue when 'set selectedcolor' is used.
2018-02-27 09:50:45 +01:00
467cc8edf3
tweaks: remove two deprecated options and six rebindable function names
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This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48992 .
2018-02-04 13:51:13 +01:00
ae7366616f
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.3 release
2018-01-29 09:31:12 +01:00
ddc1de1939
docs: remove the note about needing a recent ncurses for macros to work
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After commit e739448c
2018-01-27 17:54:32 +01:00
cb56a575fd
options: recognize -M and --trimblanks on the command line
2018-01-23 13:49:48 +01:00
30f367e0db
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.2 release
2018-01-02 15:51:12 +01:00
800a997008
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.1 release
2017-11-27 19:06:26 +01:00
0465adb9ce
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.0 release
2017-11-18 11:33:28 +01:00
06049f5141
docs: update references to the nanorc files for the XDG changes
2017-11-17 21:40:54 +01:00
4220854367
docs: mention that macros work correctly only on terminal emulators
2017-11-13 21:08:36 +01:00
c3a11fb7ed
options: remove '--quiet' and 'set quiet', because they hide problems
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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
80ed2568fc
tweaks: remove a comment from the docs that is no longer accurate
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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
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
a09eedf0a3
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.7 release
2017-08-27 09:37:01 +02:00
8f2ac1b7f6
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.6 release
2017-07-21 09:51:22 +02:00
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
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
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
9ffd3c0222
docs: consistently describe the -U/-c and -r/-w overrides
2017-06-29 17:48:50 +02:00
6520aa0079
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.5 release
2017-06-25 10:37:17 +02:00
b4a955512e
docs: spell "title bar" and "status bar" correctly
2017-06-18 20:09:30 +02:00
5907f8801b
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.4 release
2017-05-21 10:21:03 +02:00
afd8a4e804
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.3 release
2017-05-18 11:53:19 +02:00
e1e15fd0f4
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.2 release
2017-05-04 10:24:54 +02:00
d6313c2f8c
tweaks: fix two typos
2017-04-24 20:29:41 +02:00
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
1e8f6fd7a9
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.1 release
2017-04-12 10:11:45 +02:00
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
032030566c
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.0 release
2017-03-31 10:54:55 +02:00
926fe5f789
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.7.5 release
2017-02-23 11:33:45 +01:00
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
f119a90fe5
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.7.4 release
2017-01-10 11:29:34 +01:00
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