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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
David Lawrence Ramsey
2356693b81
docs: document the more everyday names of three bindable functions
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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
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^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
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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
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
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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