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Benno Schulenberg
0d11964503 docs: say that --minibar is modified by --constantshow and --stateflags 
The previous two commits reduced what is shown by default on the minibar.
Mention which extra options are needed to show the extra information.
 2021-02-02 11:10:09 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
0122119a44 docs: correct the word order for Alt+D in the cheat sheet -- it changed 2021-01-20 19:25:29 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
64bf03b0d9 docs: correct the formatting of a comment in the sample nanorc 2021-01-15 10:05:04 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
7519a458b2 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.5 release 2021-01-14 11:08:05 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
6360e4170a copyright: update the years for the FSF 2021-01-11 14:22:51 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
7b9567719c tweaks: reshuffle an option, to have two related ones grouped together 
Options --stateflags and --minibar are slightly related; it looks
better to not have them separated by an unrelated option.
 2021-01-07 14:27:49 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
e14127b843 rcfile: rename 'nowrap' toggle to 'breaklonglines', to match the option 
Now all toggle functions have the same name as their corresponding
long command-line option.  Also, all names now indicate the effect
of the toggle when it is invoked from a default setting.
 2021-01-02 17:14:07 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
ca398fdfdf docs: explain the purpose of --markmatch / -^ / 'set markmatch' 
Also, colorize 'set markmatch' as a valid option in a nanorc file.
 2020-12-24 11:49:49 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
e353203010 docs: explain the effect of --minibar / -_ / 'set minibar' 
Also, colorize 'set minibar' as valid option in a nanorc file.
 2020-12-23 17:15:06 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
c1bd54dd47 tweaks: move 'set indicator' to its alphabetical place in the manual 
Also, reword some option descriptions, to mention the effect of the
option instead of what the user should give as argument.
 2020-12-06 16:34:42 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
3efb9c3a2e docs: mention the new 'set promptcolor' option 2020-12-06 16:34:42 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
a9bc118178 docs: remove all mentions of Slang 2020-12-05 12:23:06 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
587e6e2c88 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.4 release 2020-12-02 11:15:31 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
622b031e27 docs: use standard-compliant HTML entities for the four arrows 
HTML 4 knows only the four-letter abbreviations for the arrows.
Use those, so that also browsers with very limited knowledge
(like Dillo) will show the arrows correctly.
 2020-10-11 15:58:40 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
26f5c8b9d5 rcfile: stop accepting 'set view' in a nanorc file, and undocument it 
Like --restricted, --view really only makes sense on the command line.
 2020-10-10 12:42:20 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
ced0019b6c bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.3 release 2020-10-07 10:40:12 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
777082a7b8 docs: add a link to the website also to the info manual 
And add a reference to the "cheat sheet" to the nanorc man page.
 2020-10-02 10:32:44 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
072c8aa39b options: move --stateflags (-%) and --magic (-!) to the end of the list 
It's nicer to start the list with -A, -B, -C.  And, when the user
does 'nano --help', these new flags are more likely to be noticed.
 2020-10-01 11:24:39 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
2c41600957 docs: explain the purpose of -! / --magic / 'set magic' 
Also, colorize 'set magic' as valid option in a nanorc file.
 2020-09-25 16:35:50 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
844c671bf1 docs: explain what the options --stateflags (-%) and 'set stateflags' do 
Also, colorize 'set stateflags' as valid option in a nanorc file.
 2020-09-23 19:48:03 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
746ef89745 docs: condense the desciptions of cutting and pasting 
Mention the relevant keystroke directly (instead of the command name
followed by the default binding).
 2020-09-20 19:38:52 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
82080b044b docs: mention that syntax definitions are available in /usr/share/nano/ 
Inspired-by: Hussam al-Homsi <sawuare@gmail.com>
 2020-09-12 12:48:37 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
93b25ce014 tweaks: adjust some whitespace in the docs, and improve a comment 2020-09-12 12:21:24 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
7b19b4114c docs: improve two wordings in the sample nanorc 2020-09-11 10:45:19 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
586a7d22e7 docs: add the customary (1) after the name of command-line programs 
Also, don't format the wrapping quotes of strings,
and normalize the formatting of default values.

This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59064.
Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
 2020-09-05 19:43:51 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
b122d3b8e5 docs: explain the 'set scrollercolor' option, for coloring the indicator 
And mention that a background color does not work on libvte before 0.55.

To find out the version of libvte on your system:

  ls -R1 /usr/lib | grep libvte | grep 00 | grep -o "0\..."
 2020-09-02 19:55:24 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
63ac050733 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.2 release 2020-08-24 09:53:07 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
71752f47cb docs: reshuffle the section about the file browser to a better place 
First mention the three main 'pieces' of the editor: Editing window,
Help viewer, and File browser.  Then mention how to change settings:
with the toggles or with nanorc files.
 2020-08-19 08:54:30 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
b5fb41e963 docs: mention in the FAQ how to change the escape sequences of urxvt 
Replace an obsolete question that doesn't have a good answer: setting
TERM to vt100 is unlikely to make the more complicated keystrokes work,
which are the ones that are most likely not to work.
 2020-08-18 09:00:56 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a14c894325 docs: add a cross-reference from 'findbracket' to 'set matchbrackets' 2020-08-17 14:20:03 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
306906a8a7 docs: adjust description of ^T in cheatsheet, and mention M-Bsp 2020-08-13 07:21:21 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
b1a0f5e65a bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.1 release 2020-08-12 07:57:31 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
5b56791aef docs: mention that anchors are visible when line numbers are shown 
Suggested-by: Tomáš Mudruňka <mudrunka@spoje.net>
 2020-08-03 10:27:57 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
eb57b10273 docs: fix a closing tag in the FAQ [tidy] 2020-08-01 20:58:29 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
df9ca85961 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.0 release 2020-07-29 09:44:39 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
ee78f2348b rcfile: rename bindable function 'curpos' to 'location' 
It is better that the bindable function is named the same as the
tag in the help lines, and that it is not an ugly abbreviation.
 2020-07-05 11:05:45 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
2261377309 docs: complete the renaming of 'tempfile' to 'saveonexit' 
This should have been part of commit d4ee6a2b from two months ago.
 2020-07-05 10:53:57 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
2c228796a8 docs: improve some descriptions concerning the file browser 2020-07-03 18:45:09 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
1a2d0c1770 scrolling: add a function and a key binding to center the cursor line 
By default, this function is bound to ^L, to make that keystroke do
something actually useful.  To not lose the Refresh function that this
keystroke had, the centering function additionally does a full redraw
and refresh of the screen.
 2020-07-02 11:11:44 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
da0ac58ecc docs: document the new -O/--bookstyle and 'set bookstyle' options 2020-06-27 11:12:21 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
8061a981b1 tweaks: correct two spelling mistakes [codespell] 2020-06-26 11:27:07 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
b1b89f01b7 docs: mention that M-X toggle is special, because available in most menus 2020-06-24 09:30:08 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
054cafa138 docs: mention the nine new color names, and "bold" plus "italic" 2020-06-18 15:31:06 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
26fb83c61f docs: use 'bold' and 'light' instead of 'bright' in the sample nanorc 2020-06-15 15:30:52 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
7ff82aa5e2 rcfile: add bindable function 'execute', for access to "Execute Command" 
(This should have been added three weeks ago when ^T was rebound.)
 2020-06-15 14:27:49 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
32ee39e44a docs: document the --indicator (-q) and 'set indicator' options 2020-06-04 18:52:28 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
d9106abfda rcfile: rename 'extcmd' to 'execute', to be more readable and fitting 
Also, improve its description in the documentation.
 2020-05-31 12:04:58 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
09a004cad9 tweaks: order three menu names in the documentation slightly better 2020-05-24 11:24:49 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
d4ee6a2b53 options: rename --tempfile to --saveonexit, to be far clearer 
A long option should describe what it does, not vaguely hint at it.

Also, in several places of nano's code we deal with actual temp files,
and then having a flag called TEMP_FILE that doesn't have anything to
do with temp files is somewhat confusing.
 2020-04-30 19:12:54 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
af062af490 docs: mention that doing a full-buffer operation wipes away all anchors 2020-04-30 18:58:17 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
56d1214187 syntax: move distro-specific files down to a subdirectory, syntax/extra/ 2020-04-14 19:05:41 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
5755ecdbfc options: let --afterends affect also the deleting of words (Ctrl+Delete) 
It makes more sense that <Ctrl+Delete> deletes the same thing as what
<Shift+Ctrl+Right> would select.

Suggested-by: Liu Hao <lh_mouse@126.com>
 2020-04-14 12:14:49 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
bcaa1ef7f2 docs: explain how anchors work, and document their bindable functions 2020-04-13 12:20:36 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
edf2d8d68f docs: mention that the dedicated cursor-moving keys are not rebindable 2020-04-10 12:25:02 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
66e64dd2d2 docs: in the sample nanorc file, refer instead of duplicating 
Instead of duplicating information, just refer to 'man nanorc'.

Also reshuffle a paragraph, and add a suggestion to just select
the syntax files that will actually get used.
 2020-04-09 10:27:39 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
2d4bacf61d docs: stop mentioning that --wordchars overrides --wordbounds 
Since the previous commit, it no longer does.  Instead, the two
interfere, and the user probably wants to use just one of them.
 2020-04-06 19:07:02 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
7d3aad403d options: make -S the short synonym of --softwrap 
The form -$ is still accepted, but is deprecated.
 2020-03-27 17:02:55 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
aa70f3d95e options: stop recognizing the obsolete --morespace and --smooth 
They have been no-ops for a year.

Also remove their documentation entries.

(The nanorc options still remain -- to be removed next year.)
 2020-03-27 16:54:09 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
49a84f9e8a bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.9 release 2020-03-24 11:11:22 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
39ed865043 docs: improve the descriptions of --softwrap and 'set softwrap' 2020-03-19 13:10:28 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
3690d60b71 rcfile: rename bindable function 'suspendenable' to 'suspendable' 
The name of a toggle function should match the name of the corresponding
option, like for 'mouse' and 'linenumbers' and 'smarthome' and such.
 2020-03-15 11:17:46 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
067ee1a6b1 tweaks: highlight keystrokes in the documentation more consistently 2020-03-13 16:40:34 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
0c1db4879e docs: update the missed occurrences of --suspendable / 'set suspendable' 2020-03-13 16:34:41 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
a91bc04e04 docs: update the form of an option, --suspendable / 'set suspendable' 2020-03-13 15:58:56 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
639f37669a docs: remove the note saying that nanorc files must be in Unix format 
Since commit 98f038ad from a month ago, nanorc files do not need to be
in Unix format (LF) but may also be in DOS (CR+LF) and Mac (CR) format.
 2020-03-12 19:03:02 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
c65fa25ce2 docs: mention that ^[ (Esc) is unbindable, and explain why 2020-03-10 15:55:19 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
f2ae08ab19 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.8 release 2020-02-07 10:50:44 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
0856f53703 docs: mention that -D/--boldtext gets overridden by some nanorc options 
Also, remove an obsolete anchor, and add a missing word.
 2020-02-06 16:07:11 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
7f0bfdfeb2 docs: put the three new behaviors in a bulletted list, to catch the eye 
Also, move the relevant section down in the nanorc man page, to increase
the contrast between the two pages.
 2020-02-06 16:07:11 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
d141e849a3 tweaks: unabbreviate "argument" in the documentation 
Also, show that the argument in the extendsyntax format is not optional,
as any command requires at least one argument.  Also mention 'tabgives'
among the commands that are allowed in an included file.
 2020-02-04 12:23:58 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
3f5ba950d6 tweaks: suggest a few more alternative key bindings and unbindings 
This demonstrates the presence of the 'savefile' function,
and makes the main help text look better.
 2020-01-31 17:16:31 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
0a52e92d4c docs: for the alternative bindings, rebind ^C only in the main menu 
Because ^C is needed for Cancel in most other menus.

This fixes https://bugs.debian.org/950223.
Reported-by: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>

Bug existed since version 4.0, commit 3a170d2c.
 2020-01-31 16:54:55 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
6cd98e32f7 docs: document the new Sh-M-X format for binding <Shift+Meta+letter> 2020-01-23 11:11:34 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
aac3126183 docs: improve the description of which rc-files are read during startup 2020-01-19 13:27:41 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
63cddceeaa docs: document the new -f/--rcfile option 2020-01-19 12:55:43 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
afa4c6b9fc copyright: update the years for the FSF 2020-01-15 11:42:38 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
7b0b9a12ea docs: mention in the FAQ that auto-indentation is suppressed when pasting 
And that ^Js will be filtered out too.
 2020-01-12 12:09:09 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
12742586e5 tweaks: adjust or reword a few items in the FAQ 2020-01-07 16:55:30 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
194620c5f0 docs: add a FAQ item about a self-compiled nano not reading /etc/nanorc 2020-01-07 14:34:23 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
67d37adf98 tweaks: renumber some FAQ items in preparation for adding another 2020-01-07 14:24:47 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
ade93ccf25 docs: use more generally available arrows in the cheatsheet 
Use bolded HTML entities for the four arrows, instead of the literal
triangular Unicode "arrows" which many fonts don't include.

This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57505.
 2019-12-30 16:41:22 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
6c09504040 docs: stop saying that 'set fill' enables hard-wrapping -- it does not 
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57477.
 2019-12-25 14:20:35 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
c00431134f bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.7 release 2019-12-23 11:15:53 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
b56db25a35 docs: mention that all keywords in a nanorc file should be in lowercase 2019-12-12 19:19:07 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
60b826e5ee tweaks: trim or adjust some whitespace in HTML, and add two keywords 2019-12-05 17:01:55 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
1dd7b216a0 docs: add or improve the 'description' meta tag in the two HTML pages 2019-12-05 12:06:24 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
87bf46ffb6 docs: add the 'lang' attribute in the right place to the two HTML pages 2019-12-05 11:52:17 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
076eb6f6af docs: mention that a negative number after "+" counts from the end 
A negative line number given on the command line counts from the end
of the relevant file (-1 meaning the first line from the bottom),
and a negative column number from the end of the relevant line.

The feature was added in version 2.8.5 but not mentioned in the manual.

This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57342.
Suggested-by: Andreas Schamanek <schamane@fam.tuwien.ac.at>
 2019-12-02 17:00:35 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
154742c5e3 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.6 release 2019-11-29 11:08:22 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
8637acb106 docs: correct the description of the 'spell' menu 2019-11-25 17:42:40 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
51a3f78d69 docs: mention that 'hunspell' is now the first default spelling program 2019-11-25 17:38:50 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
3258bb0ff4 docs: adjust the compilation instructions to two-digit version numbers 2019-10-27 19:21:55 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
4281b6becb commands: rename 'fixer' to 'formatter', to be less misleading 
The word "fixer" sounds too much as if the command would be able
to fix mistakes or correct errors.  Especially when seen next to
"linter", it sounds as if one does a syntax check and the other
fixes the found mistakes.  (Although the command might in theory
be used for this, it is not its intended purpose.)
 2019-10-25 17:24:28 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c51f5f4bff docs: mention that the 'nopauses' option is obsolete 2019-10-15 11:23:05 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
bfdc31fbb4 docs: add the M-F and M-N keystrokes to the cheatsheet 2019-10-14 17:14:07 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c63f4c1f58 docs: remove the note about the formatter having been removed 
The 'fixer' command has taken the place of the 'formatter' command.

(Also, normalize a double blank line before a chapter.)
 2019-10-14 10:30:04 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
b5c5cde0d4 docs: document the 'fixer' command, a per-syntax content arranger 2019-10-14 10:28:45 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f813fd0f4d rcfile: allow binding also F17...F24 
For historical reasons the rebinding code allows binding F13...F16,
which on most terminals are typable with Shift plus F1...F4.  But,
at least on an Xfce Terminal, Shift plus F1...F12 produce F13...F24.
On a Linux console, Shift plus F1...F8 produce F13...F20.  So: allow
to bind the full shifted F13...F24 range.  It costs no extra code
and makes things more rounded.
 2019-10-07 16:23:40 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
e90b40e651 docs: add a note saying that rebinding ^M or ^I is not advisable 
Also say that rebinding ^H is sometimes impossible, or when it's
made possible, that it rebinds the Backspace key too.

This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56994.
Reported-by: Tiago Almeida <tjamadeira@gmail.com>
 2019-10-07 13:28:27 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
07c1e72216 tweaks: slightly reword some fragments in the manual's rebinding section 2019-10-07 13:01:18 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
7338b45d36 docs: remove some excessive detail from the sample nanorc file 
The sample file should just mention the basics.  The manual contains
all the details.
 2019-10-06 14:50:27 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c95e5362e6 docs: mention that color rules are applied in the order they are listed 
Suggested-by: Tiago Almeida <tjamadeira@gmail.com>
 2019-10-06 14:27:29 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
9a2ef3a542 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.5 release 2019-10-04 11:31:29 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
cdb9b04980 docs: add two examples of the 'tabgives' command to the sample nanorc 2019-10-03 16:41:10 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
310c971d50 docs: describe the new syntax-specific 'tabgives' command 2019-09-25 19:42:16 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
aecbc6faa9 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.4 release 2019-08-25 10:29:14 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a06b921f12 docs: document the search-at-startup feature (+/string or +?string) 2019-08-20 19:22:25 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a2f7e31ba2 new document: a condensed overview of nano's shortcut keystrokes 
It's in a two-column format that fits on a single page, and uses the
more widely known Ctrl+X and Alt+X notations (instead of ^X and M-X).

The file is published on https://nano-editor.org/cheatsheet.html.
 2019-08-16 19:49:50 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
55983ee9d1 docs: make the synopsis of --speller and 'set speller' more accurate 2019-08-16 18:50:49 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
94c9defde1 docs: slightly reword some of the descriptions around syntax highlighting 2019-08-09 19:16:16 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
52e39ae5f7 docs: slightly reword the descriptions of most configure options 2019-08-02 17:10:11 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
5e7ba03ad1 docs: stop mentioning the 'unjustify' function, as it no longer exists 
Unjustifying is done by using the general undo function (M-U).
 2019-07-29 19:42:52 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
97fec5603f docs: mention the M-N toggle instead of the obsolete M-# one 
Reported-by: Bill Hager <prog00@protonmail.com>
 2019-07-29 19:29:55 +02:00
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
3bf04afa6d tweaks: specifically refer to the manual of GNU grep for more regex info 2019-06-09 12:30:35 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
fea1901592 docs: remove "--" from the default value of 'quotestr' 
Adjust the documentation to the removal of "--" in the previous commit.
 2019-06-08 17:48:44 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f2c61c4b9a docs: mention the default value for 'errorcolor' 2019-06-07 11:24:51 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c4e04eb682 docs: show double quotes where they are needed 
Instead of saying that string parameters should be enclosed in
double quotes, just show the quotes in the relevant commands.

Also, rename the parameters, to better fit the subsequent description.
 2019-06-07 11:15:02 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
941637615b docs: clarify that in nano regexes are extended regular expressions 
And add a concise summary of the most important special characters.

This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56438.
 2019-06-06 15:16:56 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
378aa8bc41 docs: slightly reword the notice about the changed defaults since 4.0 2019-06-05 19:40:15 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
edbdcb9b9a docs: add a light warning to the explanation of --nonewlines 2019-06-04 19:54:58 +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
8a4639cdd6 docs: put the 'set guidestripe' option into its alphabetical position 2019-04-16 10:05:35 +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
1fe3e2ed69 docs: mention that -b is the opposite of -w also in the latter's item 2019-04-14 08:49:25 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
90cbdbbe75 docs: mention that M-S now toggles softwrap and M-N line numbers 2019-04-11 17:46:19 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
d79b9823ae bindings: add easier keystrokes for the linenumber and softwrap toggles 
For most people, M-N and M-S are simpler to type than M-# and M-$,
and more mnemonic.
 2019-04-09 17:48:26 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
82f1ce8ebf bindings: remove the jumpy-scrolling toggle entirely 
It is still possible to use --jumpyscrolling on the command line or
'set jumpyscrolling' in a nanorc file, but a user will have to restart
nano when they decide they want chunky instead of smooth scrolling,
a decision that should be rather rare.

This frees up the M-S keystroke to be reused for toggling softwrap.
 2019-04-09 17:46:21 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
209531a761 docs: remove all mention of --finalnewline, and undefault --nonewlines 2019-04-07 10:02:22 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
84d21b0972 tweaks: consistently use .sp instead of .PP to insert a blank line 
And use plain .P to start a new paragraph.
 2019-04-01 17:31:35 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f6a7983a8a docs: for two of the toggles, mention the new instead of the old option 2019-03-26 17:08:31 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
a1375474d9 docs: remove the AUTHOR section, per advice from 'man man-pages' 
Also because most of nano has meanwhile been written by other people
than Chris.  And because authorship is meta-information, irrelevant
for knowing how to operate nano.
 2019-03-25 15:55:34 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
d0cc75f197 docs: put paths and filenames in italics, per 'man man-pages' 
Plus a few other text and formatting tweaks.
 2019-03-25 15:31:47 +01:00
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