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 2022.04.28 - GNU nano 6.3 "Wat zullen we drinken? Wat een dorst!"
-• For multiline regexes, text is now colored as soon a start match
+• For multiline regexes, text is now colored as soon as a start match
   is found, also when there is no end match at all.
 • The colorizing of any line is stopped after two thousand bytes,
   to avoid frustrating delays.