Commit Graph

186 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Benno Schulenberg 895d2b8e9c bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.3 release 2019-06-18 10:04:16 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 1ca9241eaa bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.2 release 2019-04-24 10:55:23 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 3a0a6b5db8 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.1 release 2019-04-15 09:33:07 +02:00
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 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 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 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 b596639f95 options: actually rename --rebindkeypad to --rawsequences (-K) 2018-12-31 18:35:46 +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
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
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 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 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 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 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 ddbff6dcb2 tweaks: slightly rewrap the FAQ's table of contents 2018-02-04 18:20:13 +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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 d04c0b7555 docs: refresh some info in the FAQ 2016-09-03 21:46:22 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg f13707fd1d history: slate the search-history migration for removal 2016-09-03 21:04:17 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 49fc528d88 restore the GNU marker in nano's name 2016-08-14 21:42:37 +02:00
Jordi Mallach 49eaa7c465 docs: bump pointers to the newest version available
Fix references to an old dist dir in FAQ and RPM spec file.
2016-06-23 19:53:58 +02:00
Jordi Mallach c2b199e926 docs: use https for nano-editor.org, and drop the www
Switch to https and drop the www. prefix for all occurrences of the
website URL.
2016-06-23 19:51:01 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 3e5fcec76c remove the GNU marker from nano's name
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
2016-06-13 12:22:33 +02:00
Mike Frysinger 8aeb8434d6 more svn->git updates 2016-04-17 23:39:07 -04:00
Benno Schulenberg d92eb4fee3 all: eradicate SVN's $Id$ tags 2016-04-05 14:59:12 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg 25c775af21 Mentioning the configure options --disable-histories and --disable-libmagic.
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2015-07-23 19:31:36 +00:00
Benno Schulenberg f1bd958851 Fixing a few typos and making some updates for 2.4.* in the FAQ.
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2015-07-18 12:00:34 +00:00
Benno Schulenberg 67e1387f04 Updating the FAQ.
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2014-04-24 20:22:32 +00:00
Benno Schulenberg f7b5c5a685 Removing vestiges of the obsolete '--enable-all' configure flag.
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2014-03-26 14:08:10 +00:00
Benno Schulenberg b55ce29a48 Applying a textual patch by David Ramsey.
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2014-02-22 10:28:58 +00:00
Chris Allegretta 8e2a930714 2011-02-18 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
* New saved cursor position history option.  Command line option -P or --poslog, rc file
          entry "poslog".  Search history changes to ~/.nano/search_history, cursor position log
          is ~/.nano/filepos_history.  Added checks to move the legacy .nano_history file to the new
          location.  Several new functions to files.c: load_poshistory(), save_poshistory(),
          check_poshistory(), update_poshistory(), and reworking of histfilename().  New FAQ entry
          4.15 discussing the change and offering an interoperability workaround.



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2011-02-18 07:30:57 +00:00
Chris Allegretta d5b1c7c5bf 2010-11-15 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
* Add a section to the FAQ about using nanorc on Win32 systems.



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2010-11-15 06:59:09 +00:00
Chris Allegretta 8a07a96eef 2009-12-01 David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
* Update documentation for 2.2 features including sample nanorc file, texinfo
          file, man pages, UPGRADE file, and update copyright noticed for the current year.



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2009-12-02 03:36:22 +00:00
Chris Allegretta cbba77558e Typo fix part 2, noticed by j.mader@gmail.com.
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2009-11-18 22:10:13 +00:00
Chris Allegretta 3b97e76aa5 faq.html: Updates for Alpine, subversion access and Savannah.
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2008-03-16 18:25:31 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 9fff4e1a10 update maintenance information
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2007-12-20 18:41:04 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 1055c7208f preemptively update the version number
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2007-12-09 18:37:11 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey c63a5c0cfe in faq.html, add minor punctuation and wording fixes, and update various
sections to account for Alpine


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2007-12-09 18:28:36 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey cd7a313f23 in doc/faq.html, update links to the Free Translation Project
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2007-08-26 15:21:05 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 1f5c89fd7b in faq.html, update RPM links for nano 2.0.x
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2007-07-29 16:30:27 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey b68cd635bc in doc/faq.html, add a new section 4.14 by John M. Gabriele, with a few
tweaks of mine, to explain how autoindent affects pasted text


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2007-04-18 23:15:30 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey a2c4704abb update email address
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2007-04-04 20:00:24 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 44e671f2de in doc/faq.html, update section 4.1 to describe how to open files with
names beginning with '+' at specified columns as well as lines


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2007-01-01 16:57:57 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 0c7e6d7aed preemptively update the version number
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2006-12-30 23:07:22 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey cfc9fd2780 preemptively update the version number
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2006-11-25 18:28:01 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 173bd2f003 typo fix
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2006-11-25 18:27:42 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey d21eea02ac more miscellaneous documentation updates
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2006-11-25 18:26:07 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey f3af804378 preemptively update the version number
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2006-11-20 14:37:44 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 057f239b43 update faq.html for the 2.0 branch of nano
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2006-10-28 21:55:22 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 32612ddcde preemptively update the version number
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2006-10-28 19:32:47 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey ee8edfc64c preemptively update the version number
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2006-10-25 14:40:49 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 61525a1e29 add missing line break
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2006-10-06 17:49:53 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey e4769dfeab in faq.html, update the question in section 4.13 to match the version of
it in the answer section


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2006-10-06 15:52:41 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 4ab14c6ad0 preemptively update the version number
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2006-09-26 14:55:30 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 4ce755072c add miscellaneous minor fixes to the faq, and preemptively update its
version number


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2006-07-26 03:20:37 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey b0226fb86a in faq.html, update section 5.3, due to the display fix for two-column
Unicode characters


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2006-06-12 20:26:38 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey b5a7bbf4f3 remove the workaround for glibc 2.2.3's broken regexec(), and replace it
with a FAQ entry explaining the problem, since it could break anything
using extended regular expressions, and glibc 2.2.3 is old


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2006-06-05 15:41:23 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 57d81ecef9 update changelog entries
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2006-06-04 18:05:17 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey f94fbbc9f4 fix typos from when the old section 4.4 was removed
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2006-06-04 17:27:58 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 7d9e5bfb36 in faq.html, add minor punctuation and wording fixes
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2006-06-04 17:22:16 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 184955d0c1 in faq.html, update section 3.8 to mention the new "Unicode Input"
prompt, and how Unicode input only works when Unicode support is enabled


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2006-05-27 17:58:41 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 75850e501a in faq.html, make the link to the nano CVS page a bit more readable
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2006-05-12 15:36:32 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey f5d6d9985b drop the Meta-] and Meta-[ aliases for Meta-} and Meta-}, and change the
shortcut to find the matching bracket from Ctrl-] back to Meta-], since
Ctrl-] is used as the telnet escape key


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2006-05-12 12:37:53 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 27d5be5e36 per Benno Schulenberg's patch (with a few tweaks by me), add a new
section 4.5, and move all section 4 entries after it down one number, to
explain a problem that can occur when holding down keys to generate Meta
sequences; also add a few more capitalization and wording fixes


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2006-05-08 14:12:36 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey c7d6f985c7 in faq.html, add a new section 4.4, and move all section 4 entries after
it down one number, to explain how to deal with problems typing Meta-[;
also add a few capitalization and wording fixes


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2006-05-02 00:08:13 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey 9dd268730c preemptively update version numbers and modification dates
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2006-04-27 19:06:05 +00:00
David Lawrence Ramsey f50bd4be88 clarify some help text and documentation
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2006-04-14 20:15:44 +00:00