Benno Schulenberg
12a0c0f690
tweaks: rewrap some lines, for more even lengths
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Also, slightly improve a few descriptions.
2024-06-18 10:53:28 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
77a8841d25
tweaks: elide unhelpful occurrences of the word "will"
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In most cases, "will" is just a filler word and doesn't improve clarity.
And in the bargain improve two descriptions.
2024-06-18 09:56:01 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
6be1f7e95a
docs: avert hyphenation of the technical words "ncurses" and "terminfo"
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This prevents an observed wrong hyphenation: "ter-minfo".
Also, add markup for "terminfo", like "ncurses" already has.
2024-06-07 14:57:02 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
0c2caa50cc
docs: correct the description of --bold, as function tags are unaffected
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The succinct function descriptions in the help lines are not shown in
reverse video by default, so they are not bolded by -D/--bold either.
Also, mention 'promptcolor' and 'minicolor' where they were missing.
2024-06-04 17:01:11 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
cd53f7cf8c
docs: don't say any more that -z was removed, as it has been repurposed
2024-06-02 09:23:09 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
b3780aab33
docs: remove the 'filename:linenumber' format from the synopsis
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(This should have been part of commit 4930fbbb from five days ago.)
2024-05-31 16:48:08 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
c26f901ba9
options: remove the deprecated synonym -$ of -S/--softwrap
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The old short option -$ has been deprecated for four years,
since version 5.0, commit 7d3aad40.
2024-05-31 12:45:18 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a590645cde
docs: document the new --listsyntaxes (-z) option
2024-05-31 11:14:24 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
4930fbbba7
docs: explain the details of --colonparsing / -@ / 'set colonparsing'
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Also, remove the earlier explanation, when colon parsing was still
done by default.
2024-05-26 17:11:09 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
ce5513b009
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 8.0 release
2024-05-01 10:10:15 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
edd0823d96
docs: mention that --modernbindings overrides --preserve
2024-03-08 11:25:14 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
d35650b034
docs: document the new --modernbindings option
2024-01-29 10:40:48 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
c19012d4cd
docs: say "mini bar", not "minibar", when referring to the actual bar
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Like is done for the other bars: title bar, status bar, prompt bar.
2024-01-20 11:02:54 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
4a2729b780
copyright: update the years for the FSF
2024-01-10 11:24:28 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
96df9e0a20
docs: mention how to get the old behavior of ^F, ^B, M-F, and M-B back
2023-11-22 10:52:34 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
75b312ded1
revert the previous commit -- forget about -? as a synonym for --help
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An ambiguous option like --back or --word would cause nano to spew
the entire help text. It should do the latter only when the user
explicitly requests it.
2023-08-27 14:56:05 +02:00
Mateusz Kazimierczuk
e65b0ba654
options: add -? as a synonym of -h (--help)
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The short option '-?' was removed nine years ago in commit 43019189,
then restored six years later in 5bd92d4c, and then removed again two
months later in 743100fe due to getopt() returning '?' for options
that aren't recognized, preventing the use of '-?' as a valid option.
However, getopt() provides a way to check for unrecognized options
via the 'optopt' variable, which gets set only for invalid options.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Kazimierczuk <mataha+savannah@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
2023-07-31 07:40:07 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
bcdb27416c
docs: describe nano more specifically as a text editor
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Especially the first sentences introducing nano should use the words
"text editor" and not just "editor".
2023-05-14 08:11:44 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
2c19345e58
docs: in a synopsis, use braces around a choice of required parts
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This seems to be the convention. For an example, see `man tar`.
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64125 .
Reported-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
2023-05-01 10:48:02 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
bf984ecb9b
docs: document the <filename>:<linenumber> thing for cursor positioning
2023-03-09 16:14:44 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
866490c41f
docs: add two examples of custom key bindings to the nanorc manpage
2023-02-16 10:44:10 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
26025f79ce
docs: add a reference to the 'help-nano' mailing list
2023-01-30 17:13:17 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
1c307bc1be
docs: add a clarifying note to the description of --tabstospaces
2023-01-26 17:01:48 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
7b48a9f671
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 7.2 release
2023-01-18 09:07:41 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
6e88389fb8
copyright: update the years for the FSF
2023-01-06 10:37:15 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
3791ed86a3
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 7.1 release
2022-12-14 10:50:32 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
972be2df04
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 7.0 release
2022-11-15 11:17:34 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
98e9a881c0
docs: mention in the man page how M-V can insert any Unicode code point
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This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63055 .
Inspired-by: Tasos Papastylianou <tpapastylianou@hotmail.com>
2022-09-18 09:05:28 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f4a2e7efe2
tweaks: move the --magic option up, so that --zero comes last
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This makes that the three options that change the default layout
of the interface (--stateflags, --minibar, --zero) come last.
Also, sort the option letters into a consistent order in the code.
2022-08-17 14:31:44 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
f1651abdac
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 6.4 release
2022-08-02 08:44:50 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
18a40caa48
docs: remove the two notices about the changed defaults
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It has been more than three years since version 4.0 was released,
the moment that the defaults for line wrapping, smooth scrolling,
and the size of the editing window were changed.
Keep the note in the texi manual, though, as it is less in the way,
and the manual generally contains more info than the man pages.
2022-06-19 10:30:44 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
1980f1b2ba
docs: stop mentioning the obsoleted keywords that were removed
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But keep the note about --suspendable, as it has been obsoleted rather
recentl. Move it to the NOTES section.
2022-06-19 10:29:46 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a6b534d760
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 6.3 release
2022-04-28 10:08:34 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
a1ba7ee786
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 6.2 release
2022-02-18 10:44:22 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
a58efa70bc
tweaks: consistently backslash-escape the dash in M-letter keystrokes
2022-02-16 12:19:31 +01:00
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
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
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
Benno Schulenberg
b66a040828
tweaks: shorten the description of --zero in the manuals a bit
2021-11-16 16:23:23 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
a623f5836c
docs: explain the effect of --zero / -0 / 'set zero'
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Also, colorize 'set zero' as valid option in a nanorc file.
2021-11-09 16:31:04 +01:00
Benno Schulenberg
d0c2c1e6b9
suspension: leave ^Z unbound by default -- just ^T^Z will suspend nano
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Suggest in the documentation how to get a one-keystroke Suspend.
2021-11-05 15:24:45 +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
ba9e5ac05d
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.9 release
2021-10-06 10:04:22 +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
aa553ee5d6
docs: correct the descriptions of how to invoke the spell checker
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The keystrokes to invoke it changed in version 5.0.
2021-08-30 17:09:41 +02:00
Benno Schulenberg
dab3f95c71
tweaks: instead of "one" use "you", like in the rest of the man page
2021-08-23 10:04:01 +02:00
