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Benno Schulenberg
a6dc5c963c bump version numbers and add a news item for the 6.1 release 2022-02-09 11:31:03 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
f9f0a8fd67 copyright: update the years for the FSF 2022-02-02 17:10:09 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
16ee4636bc tweaks: reshuffle some sample bindings, to group them differently 2021-12-26 17:44:42 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
6831b37b43 tweaks: drop foreign M-U and M-R from among the sample CUA bindings
M-U and M-R are not usual bindings for Undo and Redo.
2021-12-26 17:35:30 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
4a7bc73e03 docs: mention 'set guidestripe' and 'set unix' in the sample nanorc
Somehow these entries were missed when those options were added.

Reported-by: Tasos Papastylianou <tpapastylianou@hotmail.com>
2021-12-24 17:38:10 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
caf583ec4b docs: mention bindable function 'zero', for toggling the interface bars
This should have been part of commit a623f583 from six weeks ago.

Reported-by: Tasos Papastylianou <tpapastylianou@hotmail.com>
2021-12-23 16:14:21 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
e20880da21 docs: remove obsolete Ctrl+Z from the cheatsheet; mention Alt+X instead
This should have been part of commit d0c2c1e6 from seven weeks ago.

Reported-by: Tasos Papastylianou <tpapastylianou@hotmail.com>
2021-12-23 15:48:15 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
33ba6be91f bump version numbers and add a news item for the 6.0 release 2021-12-15 12:04:56 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
9c1c6c18ae docs: explain what it means when --rawsequences is needed 2021-12-13 16:45:42 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
c00c12b64b docs: list the new color names, from 'rosy' to 'crimson' 2021-12-12 12:01:45 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
a43ee17ad0 docs: document the effect of --quickblank together with --zero/--minibar 2021-11-29 10:47:49 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
9ebee362a5 tweaks: fix typo, and improve description of 'set zero' in sample nanorc 2021-11-27 16:52:54 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
27928e47be docs: mention that --zero and 'set zero' hide also the help lines 2021-11-26 11:01:33 +01:00
Brad Town
9a778f9a00 docs: add a description of the hexadecimal #rgb color specification
Also, update the syntax to colorize these codes the same as color names.

Signed-off-by: Brad Town <brad@bradtown.com>
2021-11-23 11:56:06 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
b66a040828 tweaks: shorten the description of --zero in the manuals a bit 2021-11-16 16:23:23 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
b76b5b9967 tweaks: use a few fewer capitals, and drop an unneeded synonym 2021-11-13 16:33:47 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
1007ca5af8 docs: mention M-Z (for toggling the interface) among the Feature Toggles
And rephrase the M-Y description a bit, for shortness and variety.
2021-11-13 16:30:38 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
a623f5836c docs: explain the effect of --zero / -0 / 'set zero'
Also, colorize 'set zero' as valid option in a nanorc file.
2021-11-09 16:31:04 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
dfbe3ce6dc docs: clarify that --enable options do not fully counteract --enable-tiny
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61441.
Reported-by: Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman@iki.fi>
2021-11-09 10:50:29 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
cc24e8b86b docs: give more examples of things that --enable-tiny excludes 2021-11-08 17:20:15 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
d0c2c1e6b9 suspension: leave ^Z unbound by default -- just ^T^Z will suspend nano
Suggest in the documentation how to get a one-keystroke Suspend.
2021-11-05 15:24:45 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
7365ef4092 docs: mention "grey" also at the other place where color names are listed
And harmonize the wrapping of the phrase.

Indirectly-reported-by: Brad Town <brad@bradtown.com>
2021-11-03 11:21:39 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
fc5d58ad97 tweaks: add two spaces and two comments, and drop an internal check 2021-10-31 16:45:43 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
a373fa500a docs: add a suggested rebind and three suggested unbinds to the sample rc 2021-10-31 11:14:09 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
52d4b96639 docs: mark options -z, --suspendable, and 'set suspendable' as obsolete 2021-10-31 10:55:07 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
0f40752139 docs: add a hint about making ^L do just 'refresh' to the sample nanorc
Just for the sake of completeness -- I doubt anyone ever uses Refresh.
2021-10-22 11:50:04 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f368e2732d docs: reword several of the descriptions in the chapter on building nano 2021-10-20 16:12:48 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
ad13746da9 docs: reword the beginning of the chapter on nanorc files
Also, move the text about valid color names to another item,
for shorter cross references.
2021-10-20 16:05:01 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
440f39e558 docs: correct the description of the layout -- four areas, not five
Also, remove the concept of "shortcut list", as there is no need.
Just use "two help lines" instead, like elsewhere.
2021-10-19 16:17:53 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
108c84daf8 docs: move the chapter about editor basics into third position
Or rather, move the chapter about command-line options to between
the chapters on file browser and feature toggles.  Also, rename the
chapter about the built-in help, and move the section about screen
layout to be the first in the editor-basics chapter.
2021-10-19 15:53:49 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
e63fe3be69 tweaks: reword a paragraph, and use usual M- to depict Meta keystrokes 2021-10-19 15:36:38 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
bc4a141cba tweaks: mark keystrokes consistently with @kbd in the manual
The @key command has the same visual result in the Info output, but
looks different (non-italic) from @kbd in the HTML and PDF outputs.
2021-10-19 14:21:28 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
1f36d5411a docs: improve the title of the manual, away from the bare "nano"
Also, suppress two unwanted blank lines in the HTML output, and
use a macro to avoid repeating the same three lines eight times.
2021-10-18 10:47:32 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
46f76ca8b8 docs: avoid large Table of Contents at top of HTML version of manual
Texinfo-6.8 (that was used to build the docs of nano-5.9) changed
the way the @contents command is processed for HTML output, with as
result a detailed table of contents at the start of the HTML page.
That is ugly and too much detail.  To avoid that, produce a table
of contents only when generating output meant for printing.

This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61344.

Bug existed since version 5.9.
2021-10-17 16:55:24 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
3a09577e0c tweaks: replace the obscure @* with the slightly clearer @sp
What @* does is guesswork when you don't use Texinfo regularly.
That the "sp" in the @sp command refers to vertical space is not
very clear either, but the command is used on nearby lines too,
so better use it more.

Also, improve two wordings and fix a four-year old typo.
2021-10-17 12:36:57 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
557d8131ca docs: prevent a black square in the PDF after the long synopsis line
Also, prevent an unwanted break in a keystroke.
2021-10-16 17:46:33 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
89fd11109d docs: add a meta description for the HTML rendering of the manual
Also, drop the Emacs mode line -- we don't use Emacs,
and Emacs doesn't need it.
2021-10-16 17:03:45 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
af757d3b3f docs: reshuffle a GNU marker, to make the title clearer in search engines 2021-10-11 09:27:56 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
ba9e5ac05d bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.9 release 2021-10-06 10:04:22 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
bc7e7d847e docs: list the default color combo for 'spotlightcolor' in sample nanorc
The comment says that only 'errorcolor' and 'spotlightcolor' have
a default value.  Better list the default value for both of them.
2021-10-01 09:47:45 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
88f7ec38f8 docs: spell "filename" as a single word, like in most other occurrences 2021-09-15 10:27:31 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
0010cd4443 tweaks: slightly reword or rewrap some comments in the sample nanorc 2021-09-15 09:55:14 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
7d6ffd9e78 docs: don't use "light" after "bold", as the latter often implies "light"
On most terminals "bold" also makes the relevant text lighter (or just
makes it lighter, like on a Linux console).  Only some terminals allow
the user to switch this coupling of bold to light off.

Suggested-by: Hussam al-Homsi <sawuare@gmail.com>
2021-09-14 12:40:32 +02:00
Hussam al-Homsi
b8daf1fb0b docs: correct the default value of the errorcolor option
It should be "bold,white,red" instead of "brightwhite,red"
because "bright" is deprecated and not documented.

Signed-off-by: Hussam al-Homsi <sawuare@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
2021-09-14 12:03:04 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
0ac2dfd920 docs: refer to the FAQ when <Alt+Up> does nothing on a Linux console 2021-09-04 12:29:31 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
aa553ee5d6 docs: correct the descriptions of how to invoke the spell checker
The keystrokes to invoke it changed in version 5.0.
2021-08-30 17:09:41 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
abce19b0e4 docs: improve the recipe in the FAQ for dealing with Alt+Up on a console 2021-08-25 11:53:27 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
fc317660cb tweaks: harmonize the indentations in the FAQ somewhat 2021-08-25 11:28:45 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
949fcde6f7 docs: indent the paragraphs in the FAQ that list commands to be typed
And use a monospaced font for them.
2021-08-25 11:27:26 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c6ba4ae89a docs: improve the descriptions of several bindable functions
Some functions behave differently when some lines or a region is marked.
2021-08-23 10:12:55 +02:00