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141 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Benno Schulenberg
5563c710d0 docs: improve the description of the 'tabstospaces' option
It never mentioned to how many spaces a tab would be converted.
2021-07-01 09:52:10 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a2cb22faab bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.8 release 2021-06-15 09:52:45 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a69a8ce3ca bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.7 release 2021-04-29 11:28:21 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
b72d9af52c bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.6.1 release 2021-03-03 09:47:41 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
1e9d12abc5 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.6 release 2021-02-24 09:23:50 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
0a57da42e0 docs: correct the description of --quickblank for the changed base value
And mention that --minibar overrides the option too.
2021-02-22 12:24:06 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
eb0962fb06 docs: remove all mentions of --markmatch and 'set markmatch' 2021-02-07 09:18:15 +01:00
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
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
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
587e6e2c88 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.4 release 2020-12-02 11:15:31 +01:00
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
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
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
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
63ac050733 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.2 release 2020-08-24 09:53:07 +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
df9ca85961 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.0 release 2020-07-29 09:44:39 +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
da0ac58ecc docs: document the new -O/--bookstyle and 'set bookstyle' options 2020-06-27 11:12:21 +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
32ee39e44a docs: document the --indicator (-q) and 'set indicator' options 2020-06-04 18:52:28 +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
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
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
067ee1a6b1 tweaks: highlight keystrokes in the documentation more consistently 2020-03-13 16:40:34 +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
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
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
c00431134f bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.7 release 2019-12-23 11:15:53 +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
51a3f78d69 docs: mention that 'hunspell' is now the first default spelling program 2019-11-25 17:38:50 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
9a2ef3a542 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.5 release 2019-10-04 11:31:29 +02:00