2018.06.02 - GNU nano 2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the
buffer (or the marked region) through an external command
(^R^X and prefix the command with the pipe symbol, "|"), is
better at detecting and maintaining paragraphs, is able to
justify //-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding
of a key to a string lacks a closing quote, gives feedback
about the number of lines written also when prepending or
appending, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter.GNU nano is a simple and easy-to-use editor for on the terminal. https://nano-editor.org/ The tarball and its signature are here: https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-2.9.8.tar.xz https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-2.9.8.tar.xz.asc Specific bugs that were fixed in this release: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28993 (filter text through command [request]) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53932 (deficient paragraph detection) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53933 (more deficient paragraph detection) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53967 (linter not redrawing bottom bar) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53970 (linter reopening already open file) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53972 (crash when string bind was not closed) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53977 (linter not updating margin) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53981 (linter crashing for new, empty file) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53986 (zero wrapping when fill was too narrow) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54025 (pre- and appending gave no feedback) Changes between v2.9.7 and v2.9.8: ---------------------------------- Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita (2): new feature: allow piping (selected) text to an external command linter: check all open buffers, instead of just the next one David Lawrence Ramsey (3): bindings: add the "flippipe" bindable function tweaks: avoid an unused variable warning with --enable-tiny tweaks: fix some grammar plus a typo in the comments Cristian Caloghera (1): syntax: makefile: recognize also an all-lowercase makefile name Brand Huntsman (1): tweaks: avoid two unused variable warnings when NLS is disabled Benno Schulenberg (65): build: fix compilation failure when configured with --enable-tiny build: fix compilation when configured with --disable-justify build: fix compilation when configured with --disable-multibuffer build: fix compilation with --enable-{tiny,help,multibuffer} bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.8 release copyright: update the years for significantly changed files credits: sort the names roughly according to amount of influence docs: add a missing double quote in the default brackets string docs: describe what constitutes a paragraph docs: improve description of 'speller' and related bindable functions docs: improve the description of --nonewlines, and properly sort it docs: improve the description of the --autoindent option docs: make quotes around regexes bold, as they are part of the command docs: mark the filtering of text through an external command as done docs: register Marco as the author of the filtering feature docs: remove mention of the quotestr for when regex support is lacking docs: remove quotes around the name of a syntax -- they are not needed docs: thank Kamil for his bug fixes, and update an email address docs, usage: make it clear that the argument of --quotestr is a regex files: give feedback during writeout also when prepending or appending filtering: pair the cut and the insert, so they can be undone together gnulib: update to its current upstream state justification: find the beginning of a paragraph in a better way justification: limit the amount of recursion to prevent a stack overflow justification: recognize indented paragraphs also without --autoindent justification: when leading whitespace exceeds fill width, wrap anyway linter: don't try to access absent stat info, as that gives a crash linter: make sure that the margin is updated before displaying a buffer linter: make sure the shortcuts bar will redrawn when exiting early main: add "/" to the quoting regex, to allow justifying //-comments main: interpret only a double slash (//) as quoting, not a single one po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files rcfile: don't crash when a bind to a string lacks the closing quote startup: provide a hint for people unfamiliar with the ^char convention syntaxes: condense and/or correct some extension regexes syntax: makefile: color all keywords that GNU make recognizes tweaks: adjust a translator hint tweaks: avoid an unused-variable warning with --enable-tiny tweaks: avoid a warning with --enable-{tiny,help,multibuffer} tweaks: condense a comment, and elide an unneeded 'if' tweaks: condense some repetitious comments, and check before assigning tweaks: condense two statements into one, and elide a 'break' tweaks: elide a function that is called just once tweaks: elide another function that is called just once tweaks: exclude an unneeded 'if' from the single-buffer version tweaks: frob a couple of comments tweaks: frob some comments, and rename two parameters to make sense tweaks: give some continuation lines a more obvious indentation tweaks: improve a couple of comments, and reshuffle a group of lines tweaks: make better use of an existing variable tweaks: make better use of an intermediate variable tweaks: reduce the abundance of the word 'toggle' in the Info manual tweaks: remove a superfluous assignment -- the lead length never changes tweaks: remove two superfluous checks, after making one of them so tweaks: rename a function, for more aptness and extra contrast tweaks: rename a variable, for contrast, and improve two comments tweaks: rename a variable, to give it some meaning tweaks: rename two variables, to better fit their tasks tweaks: reshuffle a condition, and adjust a comment and some indentation tweaks: reshuffle a couple of assignments tweaks: simplify the determining of the prefix for justified lines tweaks: stop decreasing both the iterator and the limit of a loop tweaks: use a more meaningful variable name, and avoid a distant 'else' wrapping: use "smart" autoindenting only when hard-wrapping is enabled wrapping: when autoindenting, use indentation of next line as example By the way, if you'd like to make a donation, please send me an email. -- Benno
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