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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 d0a7e6e6a6 docs: give the FILES section in the man page its canonical title
Suggested-by: Michael Siegel <msi@malbolge.net>
2019-03-25 14:59:28 +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 123a102c52 docs: remove the mentioning of --disable-wrapping-as-root from the FAQ
This configure option is gone.
2019-03-24 11:02:33 +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 bc40dd645a docs: adjust and extend the Pico-compatibility section in the manual 2019-03-24 10:49:47 +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 610be482fa docs: suggest a setting for 'stripecolor' in the sample nanorc 2019-03-09 09:54:27 +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 3270250184 docs: mention that --morespace and --smooth are obsolete and ignored 2019-02-19 19:34:34 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 60bdac2bbc docs: describe breaklonglines, emptyline, finalnewline, jumpyscrolling 2019-02-19 19:06:26 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg f6c767a372 docs: describe the four new options (-b, -f, -j, -e) 2019-02-19 17:48:43 +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 6470106eef docs: mention nano's major features directly instead of referring
In addition, the referral in the FAQ was to nano's home page,
which does not mention any advantages or features of nano.
2019-01-31 20:30:53 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 2482cfca56 build: eradicate the --disable-wrapping-as-root configure option
Hard-wrapping is disabled by default for any user, so this special
configure option is no longer needed.
2019-01-25 11:37:51 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 98b1f8f059 options: stop recognizing and ignoring -b, -e, -f, -j, and -q
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
Benno Schulenberg 38e3318e5f tweaks: reword the description of the disadvantages of Pico
Also reword a list of features to exclude the ones that only
make sense when contrasting nano with Pico.
2019-01-25 11:00:51 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 6aad99bd81 docs: stop implying that nano wants to be fully compatible with Pico 2019-01-25 10:50:14 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 757f558f3b tweaks: renumber some FAQ items, to compensate for the deleted ones
Also, reshuffle one item, to have related items next to each other.
2019-01-23 20:59:30 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 1f9283ec82 docs: remove from the FAQ some items that are no longer relevant 2019-01-23 20:53:08 +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 b596639f95 options: actually rename --rebindkeypad to --rawsequences (-K) 2018-12-31 18:35:46 +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 a9b4430888 docs: update the links in the FAQ to the mailing-list info pages
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55129.
Reported-by: Peter Passchier <peter@passchier.net>
2018-12-02 20:05:32 +01:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 44ea37573a docs: remove references to not being able to undo justifications
Any series of justifications (and other edits) is now undoable.
2018-11-20 19:21:35 +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 33d67d5cee docs: give suggestions for alternative key bindings in the sample nanorc 2018-10-15 17:19:40 +02:00
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
Benno Schulenberg ac7a071893 options: recognize -a and --atblanks on the command line
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
David Lawrence Ramsey bb4d0d548a new feature: allow lines to be softwrapped at whitespace
Extend get_softwrap_breakpoint() to break softwrapped lines on
whitespace when a flag is set.  This flag is controlled by the new
rcfile option "atblanks".  The '>' characters marking two-column
characters at the edge of the screen are disabled when it's on.

If get_softwrap_breakpoint() can't find whitespace in screen range, it
will break the line on the screen edge.  (In this case, a blank can be
on the last column of the screen, but text can't, so that a blank on the
last column doesn't become invisible and possibly break the display.)

This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?49959.
Requested-by: Nicholas Boel <axxisd@gmail.com>
2017-07-07 13:07:10 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 30986db708 docs: mention that boldtext can be overridden also for function tags 2017-07-07 10:27:18 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 79971a309f docs: remove the mention of backslashes for the argument of 'comment'
Also remove the backslashes from the two syntaxes that contained them.

This completes the fix for https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51370.
2017-07-07 10:15:17 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 747310562c tweaks: avoid a failure with black diamonds in a PDF 2017-07-03 17:40:37 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 1ae97076cd docs: make the guillemot and the middle dot appear correctly in HTML
For the man page, encode them properly, and for the Info stuff,
just set the right document encoding.

This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51369.
2017-07-03 13:03:54 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 09f516a58b syntax: man, groff: fix the string that introduces a comment
The comment marker is not «."» but «.\"», which requires three
backslashes to specify.  Also adjust the documentation.
2017-07-03 11:07:21 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 025232b25b docs: mention the default values for comment and whitespace directives
Also, use proper mark-up for the examples.
2017-07-03 10:43:09 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 3719d8e208 docs: be more precise about when a dash is given instead of a filename
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
David Lawrence Ramsey 9ffd3c0222 docs: consistently describe the -U/-c and -r/-w overrides 2017-06-29 17:48:50 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg c0a52372f1 docs: drop the cluttering Info-style links from the HTML manual
Especially: get rid of the "Up: (dir)" link that points nowhere.

Also, add a horizontal line before the final Table of Contents.
2017-06-27 19:55:12 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 6520aa0079 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.5 release 2017-06-25 10:37:17 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg dbbc14e0ac tweaks: be consistent in the spelling of title bar and status bar 2017-06-23 10:33:19 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg b4a955512e docs: spell "title bar" and "status bar" correctly 2017-06-18 20:09:30 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 403e87c0a0 docs: avoid a double "see" for cross references in the HTML manual
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51208.
2017-06-08 16:25:23 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 5907f8801b bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.4 release 2017-05-21 10:21:03 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 491e02f532 tweaks: reorder three items in the Info document 2017-05-19 21:09:02 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg afd8a4e804 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.3 release 2017-05-18 11:53:19 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg e1e15fd0f4 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.2 release 2017-05-04 10:24:54 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg c1ebfa04ae docs: in the FAQ, extend the answer to the pasting problem 2017-04-28 22:13:02 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 7b442ea4cb tweaks: be more precise about what --disable-extra does
Also, harmonize some configure-option descriptions,
add a slash after a subdir, and fix a typo.
2017-04-26 13:54:48 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg a846a2c19f docs: add an item to the FAQ, about pasting from Windows to a remote nano
Also, add two missing configure options, and frob some other things.
2017-04-26 12:49:10 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg d6313c2f8c tweaks: fix two typos 2017-04-24 20:29:41 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg ac1444578c docs: harmonize the nanorc man page and Info document a bit
And make the strings after "start=" and  "end=" more readable.
2017-04-21 11:29:19 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 9a4c384afa docs: reword the main paragraph of the man page
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
David Lawrence Ramsey bbc718633e docs: mention that also numbercolor overrides boldtext 2017-04-16 19:30:40 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 1e8f6fd7a9 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.1 release 2017-04-12 10:11:45 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 0b93fff802 docs: correct an answer to a question in the FAQ 2017-04-11 21:10:07 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 1c74517629 docs: remove the self-referencing stuff and the changelog from the FAQ
Furthermore, change an item header into a question, swap two items,
and tweak the formatting a bit.
2017-04-11 20:41:17 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 754c62c5cc copyright: update the years, use ranges, and explain this usage
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
Benno Schulenberg 6d70ab11d6 docs: mention another difference with Pico in the Info document 2017-04-02 13:26:53 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 032030566c bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.0 release 2017-03-31 10:54:55 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 42ae3e377f docs: mention some more differences with Pico in the Info document
Mention the ability to use <Tab> in the search history, the ability
to restore the cursor position when reopening a file, the ability to
read output of a command, and the lack of file-managing commands in
the file browser.
2017-03-26 12:41:44 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 19b7021076 tweaks: suggest a separate color scheme for root
And slightly change the existing one for normal users.
2017-03-23 19:28:33 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg da62ef8a43 tweaks: correct some formatting irregularities in the FAQ
And modify a few wordings too.
2017-03-20 20:33:47 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 6d873d3760 startup: add option 'nopauses' to disable pausing after a warning
This addresses a followup of https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50362.
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2017-03-16 19:26:39 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 926fe5f789 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.7.5 release 2017-02-23 11:33:45 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg fb8fdcaa0a tweaks: fiddle with some wordings in the texinfo document
Also, add two cross references: one in words, and one with a link.
2017-02-12 12:06:44 +01:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 7fac9ec51c docs: mention the ability to read from stdin
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
Benno Schulenberg eba470a869 tweaks: normalize some paragraph formatting in the FAQ 2017-01-21 12:31:01 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg f119a90fe5 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.7.4 release 2017-01-10 11:29:34 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 4920030384 docs: snip some obsolete items from the FAQ, and normalize its dates 2017-01-09 21:43:59 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 54e6fe2b4a build: install the Info and Html manuals even when 'makeinfo' is missing
If the system on which nano is configured does not have the 'makeinfo'
program installed, the prebuilt and packaged nano.info and nano.html
should nevertheless be installed.

Also, the TEXINFOS primary has built-in rules for generating HTML files
from the texinfo sources, so an explicit rule is not needed.

This indirectly addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49969.
2017-01-06 20:01:41 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 991e49a36a docs: bring some air into the FAQ, so that <Ctrl+Up/Down> become useful 2017-01-03 14:00:21 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg f1b87f960c build: rename the sample config file, so it will be colored like a nanorc 2016-12-30 22:05:01 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg b0ef2e2803 build: move the syntax files out of the doc/ directory
They are not documentation, they are functional elements of nano.
2016-12-30 22:05:01 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 6981294c9d build: move all documentation into a single directory
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 293423bdda bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.7.3 release 2016-12-28 12:24:05 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg f4321250ef docs: clarify the difference between "Esc Esc ddd" and "M-V xxxxxx" 2016-12-28 11:54:49 +01:00
Arturo Borrero González 2fbb71d555 syntax: nftables: add two new families, and add set references
Signed-off-by: Arturo Borrero González <arturo@debian.org>
2016-12-23 09:47:44 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 7a8ae90dac bump version numbers and add a news item for 2.7.2 2016-12-12 15:05:34 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg fd3423f79a syntax: give the statistics part of a git patch a different color
Also, be more selective when coloring a git diff line.  And color
an svn index line too.
2016-12-10 17:53:53 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 0e01080983 binding: allow to rebind the word-completion function, and document it 2016-12-07 17:18:56 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg 68a0314500 build: add configure option --disable-wordcomp to disable word completion
(The variable 'pletion_line' is not conditionalized with this option, as
it would become messy.  The compiler will probably be able to elide it.)

When using --enable-tiny, it is not possible to use --enable-wordcomp,
because the word completion function uses the undo system.
2016-12-07 17:02:25 +01:00