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933 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Benno Schulenberg
d3a7f3abed tweaks: restore a quote that was accidentally deleted four months ago
Commit a69a8ce3 unintentionally removed the double quote that should
terminate the version string.
2021-08-23 09:39:12 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
296c5a32c7 docs: replace a non-problem in the FAQ with something possibly useful
Opening a file whose name starts with a plus is not a problem at all.
Instead describe how to get the Alt+Up keystroke to scroll on a Linux
console (on Debian and friends).

This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57294.
2021-08-18 11:54:54 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
0694255893 tweaks: adjust a description of 'showcursor', to match the other ones 2021-07-01 16:12:06 +02:00
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
101dc4e805 docs: make ^E access the Execute menu in the example CUA bindings
Also, add the normal CUA bindings for Undo (^Z) and Redo (^Y),
and drop the M-X thinko.

With these more "usual" alternative bindings, ^X will now do a Cut
(putting the cut text into the cutbuffer) only when in the main menu
-- in the other places it did not put anything into the cutbuffer,
so it's better to have only the default ^K ("kill") for that.

Suspension is now accessible with ^E^Z, and the Speller with ^E^S.

This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60766.

Bug existed since version 3.2, commit 33d67d5c,
since the more usual example bindings were introduced.
2021-06-11 11:10:28 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
74c6bdac9f docs: add example bindings for uppercasing and lowercasing a word
(The diff looks weird in 'less' -- the "c" before the "^T" hides
two escape sequences.)
2021-06-10 10:40:49 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
73168bb1b9 docs: improve the contact info and some line spacing in the PDF 2021-06-08 11:31:18 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f895f1beba docs: mention the new 'set minicolor' option 2021-06-08 10:51:19 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
b27efce732 docs: mention that "grey"/"gray" may be used as a synonym of "lightblack"
Also, colorize "grey" and "gray" as valid names in a nanorc file.
2021-05-26 15:31:04 +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
5efb6836a8 options: retire the obsolete 'smooth', 'morespace', and 'nopauses' 2021-04-15 11:43:39 +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
ac5e5179fb options: rename 'highlightcolor' to the more distinct 'spotlightcolor'
This way there cannot be any confusion with syntax highlighting,
and it indicates better that a single place will be highlighted.
2021-03-03 09:31:46 +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
282f438967 color: use bright yellow to highlight a search match
Plain yellow is too dark (more like brown) on some machines.
Lightyellow is a bit loud, but... very visible.
2021-02-15 12:29:15 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
1b01adfa9f docs: mention the new 'set highlightcolor' option 2021-02-14 12:51:09 +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
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