2020.08.24 - GNU nano 5.2 "Ranrapalca" • Making certain replacements after a large paste does not crash. • Hitting a toggle at the Search prompt does not clear the answer. • Using --positionlog does not complain at the first start. • A macro containing a Search command will not sometimes fail.
GNU nano is a simple and easy-to-use editor for on the terminal. https://nano-editor.org/ https://nano-editor.org/manual.html A concise overview of nano's shortcut keystrokes: https://nano-editor.org/cheatsheet.html The tarball and its signature are here: https://nano-editor.org/dist/v5/nano-5.2.tar.xz https://nano-editor.org/dist/v5/nano-5.2.tar.xz.asc Specific issues that were addressed in this release: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58825 (macro with Search command could fail) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58954 (Alt+AltGr+letter entered invalid byte) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58955 (with --raw, keystrokes could misbehave) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58959 (with --disable-utf8, M-V M-Ins crashed) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58970 (after big paste, replacing could crash) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58972 (toggle at Search prompt wiped answer) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58980 (unbound key canceled Shift-selection) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58984 ("light," produced poor error message) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58993 (with --positionlog, first start griped) Changes between v5.1 and v5.2: ------------------------------ Benno Schulenberg (31): build: stop distributing the README.GIT file build: stop mentioning Slang in two ./configure messages bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.2 release display: restore the ability to resize the screen while searching docs: add a cross-reference from 'findbracket' to 'set matchbrackets' docs: adjust description of ^T in cheatsheet, and mention M-Bsp docs: mention in the FAQ how to change the escape sequences of urxvt docs: reshuffle the section about the file browser to a better place gnulib: back away from a commit that causes trouble when using clang gnulib: update to its current upstream state history: do not interpret a failing stat() as an error input: allow also a Meta keystroke to abort a Search command input: dawdle after an ESC also when --rawsequences is used input: discard any multibyte character when <Alt> is being held input: do not enter invalid bytes when holding down both Alt keys input: hold on to a shift-selected region when an unbound key is struck po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files rcfile: make sure that "bright"/"light" are prefixes, not separate words replacing: do not try to wipe nonexistent multidata, to avoid crashing search: poll the input stream directly, not nano's own keystroke buffer search: retain the current answer when something is toggled tweaks: adjust a comment, and reshuffle the setting of a boolean tweaks: condense two declarations tweaks: condense two fragments of code, for compactness tweaks: elide an unneeded variable tweaks: improve three comments and an indentation tweaks: move the keyboard-checking code to the end of the search loop tweaks: remove a variable and two functions that have become redundant tweaks: rename a variable, to not seem to refer to the scrollbar tweaks: reshuffle four declarations, and rename two variables verbatim: reserve enough space for the result also in non-UTF-8 locales -- Benno
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