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902 Commits

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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