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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
Benno Schulenberg
bfe65af6f3 bindings: bind M-Q to 'findprevious' by default, and M-W to 'findnext' 
This makes things symmetrical: ^W starts a forward search, ^Q starts
a backward search, M-W searches the next occurrence forward, and M-Q
searches the next occurrence backward.

The Tabs-To-Spaces toggle is moved to M-O, and thus the More-Space
toggle is no longer bound by default.
 2018-07-18 19:18:45 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
eb84205426 bindings: rename two bindable functions: copytext to copy, uncut to paste 
To match the common names used for these functions, for consistency,
and because 'uncut' sounds too much like "undo the cut".
 2018-07-13 19:46:56 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c2593c1c5a docs: reshuffle a bindable function to a slightly better position 2018-07-13 19:46:56 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
4c02329205 docs: mention that "Ins" and "Del" are valid rebindable keys 
Also, consistently refer to Latin letters and ASCII characters
where needed, and document more accepted characters.

This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54071.
 2018-07-11 14:10:35 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
078265456c docs: mention that also Ctrl increases the stride when selecting text 
The Alt key together with Shift is a special workaround for when
Shift+PgUp and Shift+PgDn don't work on the user's terminal.  But
probably it is more common to use the Ctrl key together with Shift
to select larger pieces of text.  So mention this possibility.
 2018-07-10 15:58:41 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
1057ca7a16 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.8 release 2018-06-02 09:51:16 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
54cab02030 docs: improve the description of --nonewlines, and properly sort it 2018-06-01 15:54:08 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
2633114b8e docs: add a missing double quote in the default brackets string 
It was accidentally lost three years ago, in commit 7e1bc82d.

Also improve the description of this option in the other documents.
 2018-06-01 15:53:57 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
856322b01e main: interpret only a double slash (//) as quoting, not a single one 
Otherwise the first line of a multiline /*...*/-comment would be
seen as quoted and thus *not* as the first line of a paragraph.

In the code, use "/{2}" to prevent the remainder of the line
getting colored as a comment.
 2018-06-01 09:21:03 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a4e353799b docs: make quotes around regexes bold, as they are part of the command 2018-05-31 12:07:12 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
64f28515fd docs: remove quotes around the name of a syntax -- they are not needed 2018-05-31 11:25:21 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
b84dea9898 docs: improve description of 'speller' and related bindable functions 2018-05-30 20:38:27 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a1dc1376be docs: describe what constitutes a paragraph 
Also fix a typo.
 2018-05-30 10:32:26 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
6fe132194c docs: improve the description of the --autoindent option 2018-05-30 10:29:31 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
0ea434b006 tweaks: reduce the abundance of the word 'toggle' in the Info manual 2018-05-30 10:01:45 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
cd8e932c65 main: add "/" to the quoting regex, to allow justifying //-comments 
And adjust the documentation accordingly.
 2018-05-27 20:29:52 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
a6c0212158 bindings: add the "flippipe" bindable function 
So the toggle for piping to an external command can be rebound.

This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53987.
 2018-05-27 10:36:33 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
299e710845 docs, usage: make it clear that the argument of --quotestr is a regex 
In the past, the argument could be either a regex or a literal string,
so the wording was kind of vague.  But nowadays we can count on having
regex support (through gnulib), so be more precise in the description.
 2018-05-22 18:45:58 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
3628863f90 docs: remove mention of the quotestr for when regex support is lacking 
Since version 2.8.0, nano will use (wnen needed) the regex routines
from gnulib, so mentioning the quotestr for when regex support is
lacking, has been obsolete and pointless for more than a year.

Also, remove some superfluous backslashes, use a non-breaking space
in the texinfo document, and order the regex consistently.
 2018-05-21 20:08:19 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
09d8ee82b7 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.7 release 2018-05-15 08:48:00 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
dac3b25d16 docs: note a small difference with Pico in the default hard-wrapping 2018-05-14 12:10:38 +02:00
Mark-Weston
858663444e new feature: an option to make the 'nextword' function stop at word ends 
When 'afterends' is set and Ctrl+Right or Shift+Ctrl+Right is pressed,
nano will stop at the ends of words instead of their beginnings.

Signed-off-by: Mark-Weston <markweston@cock.li>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
 2018-05-10 11:32:01 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c0b15c2982 signals: don't trap segfault/abort when envvar NANO_NOCATCH is defined 
When the user wants to get a backtrace, the crash handler shouldn't
kick in.
 2018-05-09 11:53:34 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f1530c7ba0 docs: add notes about deprecated options and function names 
Also remove two notes that are obsolete by now.
 2018-04-30 15:28:47 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
6a064503e5 docs: slightly improve the description of the file browser in the manual 2018-04-28 12:34:39 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
4d92dffb3a bindings: rename constupdate to constantshow, cuttoend to cutfromcursor 
This makes the names of these bindable functions equal to the names of
their corresponding options -- like for all the other toggles that have
a corresponding option.
 2018-04-28 12:01:23 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
4c1c425bbb bindings: add the 'linenumbers' bindable function 
This makes the line-numbers toggle rebindable, like all the others.
 2018-04-28 11:44:53 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a0147c5a72 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.6 release 2018-04-27 10:56:10 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
27eccbec23 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.5 release 2018-03-29 09:59:13 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f9415e347a docs: clarify how the Linux console is deficient: in the arrow keys 2018-03-28 19:34:26 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
e01bcddf16 docs: document the newly added color name "normal" 2018-03-28 14:03:52 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
336fa40055 docs: clarify what the scrollup and scrolldown bindable functions do 2018-03-17 14:27:23 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
3089a98169 tweaks: fix a typo and adjust some wording and formatting in the FAQ 2018-03-12 11:43:43 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
1b704e7c8c tweaks: reduce the font size of the questions in the FAQ 
Make them smaller to make them sound less like shouting.
 2018-03-12 11:25:03 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
efb9192ee5 docs: mention in the FAQ that <Shift+Insert> pastes from the clipboard 
This kind of addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53310.
 2018-03-12 11:21:26 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
c782b4cb72 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.4 release 2018-03-08 10:59:32 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
7f88eff96f docs: mention that a key can be bound to a string 2018-02-28 17:28:16 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
48749a9500 docs: note also in the Info manual that text can be selected with Shift 
And remove a detail that is untrue when 'set selectedcolor' is used.
 2018-02-27 09:50:45 +01:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
aa41eb69c0 docs: mention that errorcolor does have default colors 
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53225.
 2018-02-27 09:41:17 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
cb0289f0dc tweaks: fix a copy-and-paste error 2018-02-24 13:31:59 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
b027263a37 small addition: allow customizing the color of an error message 
The new option 'set errorcolor' allows the user to specify the color
combination for the status bar when an error message is displayed.
 2018-02-23 12:35:17 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
ddbff6dcb2 tweaks: slightly rewrap the FAQ's table of contents 2018-02-04 18:20:13 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
467cc8edf3 tweaks: remove two deprecated options and six rebindable function names 
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48992.
 2018-02-04 13:51:13 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
bb667beb5a bindings: rename the bindable function 'gototext' to 'flipgoto' 
This brings it in line with the other three "flip" toggles.
 2018-02-04 10:34:39 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
ae7366616f bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.3 release 2018-01-29 09:31:12 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
ddc1de1939 docs: remove the note about needing a recent ncurses for macros to work 
After commit e739448c, macros should work also when ncurses produces
escape sequences instead of keycodes.
 2018-01-27 17:54:32 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
cb56a575fd options: recognize -M and --trimblanks on the command line 2018-01-23 13:49:48 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
6a4d88cb4c docs: update the FAQ for the changed default location of history files 
And reword some things about translations and Unicode support.
 2018-01-14 11:51:21 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
30f367e0db bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.2 release 2018-01-02 15:51:12 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
66fd6a5ab1 options: rename 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks', because it has morphed 
The option now causes nano to trim trailing whitespace also when
hardwrapping occurs while the user is typing.
 2017-12-06 20:38:13 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
800a997008 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.1 release 2017-11-27 19:06:26 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
0465adb9ce bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.0 release 2017-11-18 11:33:28 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
7ea13d4269 tweaks: correct two minor things in the documentation 2017-11-17 21:52:31 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
06049f5141 docs: update references to the nanorc files for the XDG changes 2017-11-17 21:40:54 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
4220854367 docs: mention that macros work correctly only on terminal emulators 2017-11-13 21:08:36 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
c3a11fb7ed options: remove '--quiet' and 'set quiet', because they hide problems 
If the user uses a single version of nano, they have no need for
--quiet.  If they do sometimes use an older version and don't want
to see the warnings, they can use 2>/dev/null (they could make an
alias for that and put it before the call of nano).
 2017-11-02 17:27:53 +01:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
2356693b81 docs: document the more everyday names of three bindable functions 
List "browser", "pageup" and "pagedown" in the manuals; the first
because it matches "speller", and the latter two because they are
what these functions are commonly known by.  The names "tofiles",
"prevpage" and "nextpage" are now undocumented, but they are still
recognized by the code, as they match the tags for these functions.
 2017-10-25 17:44:13 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
4d35835189 docs: decribe the bindable functions 'recordmacro' and 'runmacro' 2017-10-19 21:37:41 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
fc36ff7275 options: retire 'set backwards' -- it's still recognized but a no-op 2017-10-15 10:45:22 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
ba65cd48cc bindings: make ^Q and ^S do something useful by default 
^S will be the first thing people will try for saving a file,
and ^Q is somewhat mnemonic because it is to the left of ^W:
it searches backward.

Make these keystrokes available also in the tiny version.
 2017-10-14 20:34:43 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c7eecd74de new feature: a bindable function that starts always a backward search 2017-10-14 20:30:46 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
80ed2568fc tweaks: remove a comment from the docs that is no longer accurate 
Date and version are updated to match each release, so the user does
not have to wonder whether the man page really describes the binary.

Also remove a bit of superfluous markup.
 2017-10-12 21:17:39 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
aa45994bbb build: let git ignore also the generated PDF file 2017-09-19 20:56:04 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
4aec1649f5 docs: remove another remark about indenting lacking undo capability 2017-09-13 19:44:31 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
6c2c6b58a4 docs: remove man page reference to indent/unindent lacking undo/redo 
This is no longer accurate.
 2017-09-12 20:08:50 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a09eedf0a3 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.7 release 2017-08-27 09:37:01 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
4562401505 bindings: hard-bind Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext 
So that these functions have bindings by default, and easy bindings.
Add them to the help viewer too, so that searching backward becomes
possible there.
 2017-08-14 10:34:15 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f2317cc64e tweaks: a comma does not end a sentence, and is not part of a variable 2017-08-08 21:45:21 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
1c1cbae6bc small addition: allow customizing the color of selected text 
The new option 'set selectedcolor' applies to marked text, to the
currently selected file in the file browser, and to the highlighted
match during interactive search-and-replace.
 2017-08-06 09:30:32 +02:00
David Lawrence Ramsey
969e99bc85 tweaks: adjust spacing and wording in sample.nanorc 2017-08-06 09:08:02 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
8f2ac1b7f6 bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.6 release 2017-07-21 09:51:22 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
e4a69f8b94 docs: move the descriptions of 'header' and 'magic' next to 'syntax' 
And reword them too, so that it is clearer what the mechanism is
for determining which syntax to use for a file.
 2017-07-15 12:32:57 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
63c428ad08 options: rename --cut to --cutfromcursor, to be clearer 
Rename the corresponding rc-file option too, of course.
 2017-07-14 16:06:52 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f4c3670f64 docs: reword the explanation of the 'syntax' command 2017-07-14 15:21:30 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
6d121cc81f docs: improve some spacing, especially of the synopsis in the PDF 
And in the bargain improve some mark-up here and there.
 2017-07-14 13:38:32 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
e57b755665 docs: use the @command and @option mark-up more consistently 2017-07-14 10:44:59 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
961294f533 docs: add some more mark-up to the Info document 
And rewrap the feature toggles, so that a title does not start
a sentence.
 2017-07-13 22:17:29 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
46cec27b26 docs: use real cross references in the Info document 
And refer backward instead of forward.
 2017-07-13 21:43:27 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
baa73d69e3 docs: improve cross references and mark-up in the Info document 2017-07-13 19:49:44 +02:00