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2005.12.23 - GNU nano 1.3.10 rises to the surface. This release
contains several new features as well as fixes for
several longstanding bugs. The former include the
ability to scroll up or down single lines without
scrolling the cursor, reworked bracket searching code
that doesn't require regular expression support,
reworked command execution code that uses $SHELL if
available instead of hardcoding "/bin/sh", and the
ability to no longer add newlines to files that don't
end in them via the -L/--nonewlines option. The latter
include fixes to the statusbar prompt so that mouse
clicks work properly on it, fixes to the Yes/No/All
prompt so that mouse clicks on it work properly when
-O/--morespace is used, and fixes to the resize handling
so that nano dies properly when the terminal is too
small to display a prompt. Enjoy.
2005.10.23 - GNU nano 1.3.9 breaks through the wall. This release
includes major enhancements as well as bugfixes. The
enhancements include better handling of invalid UTF-8,
expansion of the word count option to also count lines
and characters in the file or selection, more efficient
screen update routines, a readded -K/--rebindkeypad
option to work around numeric keypad problems on
terminals that don't show the usual NumLock glitch, a
new -W/--wordbounds option to properly detect words
containing punctuation when moving among them, and
massive improvements to the color code such as handling
of unspecified foreground colors, more efficient memory
usage for color regexes, and new reserved syntaxes
"default" and "none". The bugfixes include fixes for
the rewritten history code, fixes for potential line
numbering problems on 64-bit platforms, fixes for a few
long-standing minor display problems, a fix for erroneous
hangups occurring while waiting for input, and a fix for
a segfault when displaying certain overly long lines.
Have fun with it.
2005.06.30 - GNU nano 1.3.8 floats at its own level. This release
contains several new features. Among other things, you
can now move to a specified column number as well as
line number within a file, file backups saved in a
backup directory will have unique names, the search and
replace history routines should work more consistently,
you can get a word count by pressing Meta-D at the edit
window, and there's a new -E/--tabstospaces option to
convert all typed tabs to spaces (--backupdir's short
option has been changed to -C). In terms of bugfixes,
this release contains fixes for minor problems with
screen updates, UTF-8 display, and flow control; a fix
for a segfault when displaying some lines ending with
tabs; better handling of constant cursor position
display; improved color parsing in the rcfile; and
support for the "Regexp" toggle in tiny mode
(-R/--regexp is gone, and --restricted's short option
has been changed to -R), among other things. Enjoy.
2005.04.10 - GNU nano 1.3.7 claws its way to the top. This release
mostly contains bugfixes for the massive amount of new
code in 1.3.6. Among other things, nano builds with
debug support again; going into the help browser at the
"Read File" prompt no longer kicks you out of the prompt
after you exit the help browser; paragraph searching no
longer skips over certain cases of single-line
paragraphs; the titlebar no longer cuts off some UTF-8
strings prematurely; and the text displayed in the help
browser is now wrapped as it was in nano 1.2.x, taking
UTF-8 support into account. New features include an
--enable/disable-utf8 configure option to explicitly
turn detection of UTF-8 support on or off, and sample
regexes for C++ as well as C. Have fun.
2005.03.20 - GNU nano 1.3.6 "shout it from the rooftops" is released.
This release finally includes the long-awaited support
for UTF-8. Other new features include the ability to
insert UTF-8 characters using verbatim input; the
ability to delete all text from the cursor position to
the end of the file via ^W^X as (patched) Pico does;
improvements to input and output so that pasted text
displays faster, improvements to the statusbar prompt so
that more edit window shortcuts, including verbatim
input and previous/next word search, work in it; a new
option to allow using the formerly always-blank second
line of the screen as part of the edit window; and the
ability to refresh the help browser and file browser
windows via Ctrl-L. Notable bug fixes include a fix for
a segfault when using full justify, and a fix for the
long-standing bug where nano would keep running if the
terminal it was in died unexpectedly. Enjoy.
2004.11.22 - GNU nano 1.3.5 hurls itself forward. New features in this
release include the ability to replace only marked text
when the mark is on, improvements to smooth scrolling so
that it applies everywhere instead of just affecting the
movement keys, improvements to how files are opened so
that they are no longer displayed unnecessarily, support
for multiple +LINE arguments in addition to multiple
filenames on the command line, autodetection of the
format to save a file in based on the format it was in
when it was opened, the ability to toggle both ways
between the "Read File" and "Execute Command" prompts
and the "Search" and "Go to Line" prompts, and support
for cross-compiling nano. As for bug fixes, the
"tabsize" nanorc option works again, mouse clicks on the
shortcut list trigger the right shortcuts again,
tab-completing a filename with %'s in it no longer
causes a segfault, the internal spell checker no longer
skips words after the cursor position when the cursor is
in the middle of the file, and spell checking of only
marked text now works properly. Have fun with it.
2004.08.17 - GNU nano 1.3.4 marches forth after a false start. This
release mainly features fixes for the bugs that crept
into the last release. Among other things, nano now
compiles again with certain options, quoted justify now
works properly on systems without regex.h, full justify
no longer segfaults when used on a file with no
paragraphs, previous paragraph searching works properly
again, tab completion is properly disabled when needed
in restricted mode, Ctrl-C is no longer disabled after
using the alternate spell checker, the permissions of a
newly created file now match those of nano 1.2.x again,
and replacing all text in a file now properly updates
the screen in all cases. New features include sample
regexes for patch files, improvements to the sample
regexes for C files, and support for strings
greater than 1023 characters and/or containing nulls in
.nano_history. Additionally, the full justify keystroke
has been changed to match current Pico, and whitespace
display mode is now turned off by default. Enjoy.
2004.06.28 - GNU nano 1.3.3 marches forth. There are several new
features in this release, including a restricted mode
that provides better security than just setting an
operating directory, the ability to justify the entire
file at once, support for a "smart" home key that can
leap from the beginning of text on a line to the true
beginning of the line (or the reverse) in one stroke,
support for specifying an alternative spell checker in
$SPELL, the ability to specify the characters used to
display spaces and tabs so that they can easily be told
apart, and the ability to specify the characters marking
the ends of sentences as used in justification. There
are also several bug fixes; among other things,
justification now keeps spaces at the ends of all but
the last line of a paragraph as Pico does, saving a
marked selection no longer changes the current filename
to the filename the selection was saved under, resizing
now works better and no longer corrupts the screen under
slang, and the movement functions now avoid doing
unnecessary redraws and hence work faster. In short,
there are a lot of new things to play with. Enjoy.
2004.03.31 - GNU nano 1.3.2 is prepared for the void. New features in
this release include the ability to spell-check only
marked text and the ability to save all backup files in
a specified directory instead of wherever the original
files are. Bug fixes include a fix for a segfault when
replacing certain regular expressions, fixes for some
misbehavior when doing searches, minor fixes to verbatim
input mode and keyboard input in general, better
handling of window resizes at certain times, and
allowing the mark to be saved properly again when
switching between multiple file buffers. nano has also
been ported to the Tandem NonStop Kernel. Have fun.
2004.01.09 - GNU nano 1.3.1 is outside the gates. This release
features, among other things, fixes for the input
routines to deal with some problems they had, a
reorganized shortcut list for the help browser, minor
Pico compatibility improvements for the file browser,
fixes for misbehavior when replacing certain regular
expressions, and the ability to highlight those regular
expressions properly. It also allows searching without
prompting to work in view mode, adds support for glib
2.x for those systems that need it, updates the .spec
file for the 1.3 branch, prompts you first when you try
to save a file under a different name, and adds a new
verbatim input mode that acts as ^V does under vi, but
with additional Pico compatibility (explained in the
FAQ). Basically, a bunch of fixes and a few new
features for your editor of choice. Enjoy.
2003.10.22 - GNU nano 1.3.0 is loosed upon the world. This is the first
release in the unstable 1.3.x series, and as such it
includes a lot of new features, including the addition
of a -d option for those FreeBSD users with Backspace
keys that act like Delete keys, the ability to repeat
the last search without prompting, the ability to search
for the beginning or end of a paragraph, new smooth
paging routines to go with the smooth scrolling
routines, and various improvements to the input and
display routines to make them behave more intuitively.
It also includes the usual load of bugfixes. Enjoy.
2003.08.11 - GNU nano 1.2.2 is released, only four months since the
last version :-). This release includes fixes for
broken regex detection, search history recall, and
keypad handling with -K. Debugging strings are no
longer translated and comments denote where translations
should be as short as possible (i.e, the statusbar).
There are new examples for syntax highlighting, and
documentation updates and fixes. The 1.3.0 CVS tree
will be opening soon for all your nano desires, so stay
tuned!
2003.04.19 - Happy Easter! GNU nano 1.2.1 is released. This release
features a new check for broken regexec()
implementations and some variable, function and macro
cleanups. Fixes are included for search history,
cutting marked text, alt keyboard mode, and the usual
translation and documentation updates.
2003.02.19 - GNU nano 1.2.0 is released. Few changes from pre3, just
some doc and translation updates, and bugfixes for
justify and file conversion. For those of you who
haven't kept up with the 1.1 unstable series, v1.2
brings nanorc support, color syntax highlighting,
multiple file buffers, search/replace history and much
much more. Please read the UPGRADE file for details,
and enjoy GNU nano 1.2.0.
2003.02.13 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre3 "The last testing version, no
really!" is released. This release includes fixes for
wrapping (again), resizing, color syntax highlighting,
rcfile parsing, the mouse code, more memory leaks, and
some reversion of the code to get the user's home
directory (nano will now again rely on $HOME). There
are also translation updates, a new manual page for the
nanorc file, and an UPGRADE file detailing the changes
since version 1.0. Please submit reports for any bugs
you might find to the development team
(nano-devel@gnu.org), and enjoy nano almost-1.2.0 ;-)
2003.02.03 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre2 "bugs in my pockets, bugs in my
shoes" is released. There are, not surprisingly, only
bugfixes in this release as we move toward the stable
1.2.0 release. Fixes are included for translatable
string format, subexpression replacement, constant
cursor position, invalid search regexes, justify, screen
state on SIGHUP and SIGTERM, cutting to end cuts with
long lines, many file browser and operating directory
bugs, memory and file descriptor leaks, marker code,
spell checker, the mouse code with long lines, multiple
buffers and non-file open errors, replacement string
length, and a silly but serious history message crash.
There is also a drastic improvement in CPU utilization
for the color regex code.
Depending on the number of bugs found in this
release, there may be a 1.1.99pre3 or RC1, or just a
1.2.0 release. Most of the major bugs seem to have been
worked out, so if you are waiting for a good time to
test nano before the official 1.2.0 release, this would
be the one to use. Happy bug hunting!
2003.01.17 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre1 "enough already" has been released.
This release is, barring bug fixes and documentation
updates, what version 1.2.0 has looked like, feature
wise. There will very likely be bugs, just due the
volume of changes made in this release. Search and
replace string history has been added, including an
option to log history to ~/.nano_history (-H,
--historylog). Because of this, the Pico incompatible
search/replace string behavior that used to be the
default has been deleted. The old "pico" flag (-p) is
now compatible with Pico's "preserve" mode for allowing
flow control characters; by default this version ignores
both ^Q and ^S. The --disable-wrapping-as-root
configure option has been forward ported from version
1.0.x, and a new flag to enable all extra options
(--enable-all) has been added. The internal spell
checker has been improved, meaning you will now be
prompted only once for each unique capitalization of a
given word.
There have also been lots of bug fixes,
including the "trying to insert a directory name in
multibuffer mode bug", the ugly spell checker scrolling,
the color code, cutting text crashes, justification,
deleting the "magic line" via replace, and cursor
positioning on the statusbar. There have also been the
usual helping of translation and documentation updates.
Please send all new feedback on this release
direct to the development list (nano-devel@gnu.org).
10/24/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.12 "Make Jordi happy" is released. This
release demonstrated that nano is starting to freeze for
version 1.2. New features include a Meta-Y toggle for
syntax highlighting, pluralized i18n, and a handler for
SIGTERM. Nano now ignores XOFF (^S) to stop accidental
lock-ups, and no longer references malloc.h.
Also included are fixes for zero-length regex
matches, segfaults with --disable-mouse, justification,
memory corruption with the browser, version and help
cmdline output, and translation updates. Aside from the
(currently up in the air) search history behavior, the
next version of nano should be 1.1.99pre1. Have fun!
10/01/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.11 "Oddball" is released. This release
features a new version of gettext, a new and improved
syntax highlighting engine, and some updates for the
nanorc.sample file. The toggles for case sensitivity
(Meta-C) and regular expressions (Meta-R) have changed
in the search and replace prompts, multibuffer status is
now displayed and can be toggled from the insert file
menu, and some wrapping behavior that changed in 1.1.10
has reverted. The --enable-color warning was also made
less severe, as the color syntax code has improved, and
nano now uses extended regexes in the .nanorc file.
Also included are fixes for various memory
leaks, the operating directory option, username tab
completion, the page_up and down arrow, go to previous
word and next word, nanorc parser and line wrapping
code. Have fun!
07/25/2002 - At long last! GNU nano 1.1.10 "What didn't we break?" is
released. This version of GNU nano features version
0.11.2 of gettext, building with automake 1.6, some new
code for displaying control characters, browser
improvements, a new backup file option (-B, --backup), a
new option to ignore rc files (-I,--ignorercfiles),
compatibility with -pedantic, handling null characters
before EOF, a slightly sportier nanorc.sample and more.
Fixes are included included for justification,
the reading and writing file routines, resizing and fill
length, millions of memory leaks, the usage screen was
updated, and the the --quotestr and --regexp really work
now ;-) Enjoy :)
05/12/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.9 is released, happy Mother's Day! This
release includes many new features, including a prepend
mode (^O,M-P), a new "syntax" command in the .nanorc to
allow multiple syntax highlighting types, and a new -Y,
--syntax flag to set a specific one if there's no
filename regex to match it against (i.e, w/mutt). The
^space and M-space keys will now show up in the help
menu, which itself has been tweaked a bit, and many more
configure options should now cooperate (like the odd
pairing of --enable-tiny and --enable-multibuffer). The
marker should now work when using multiple buffers, and
the huge memory leak in color syntax highlighting has
been fixed. A lot of new stuff for everyone's favorite
text editor ;) Have fun!
03/30/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.8 is released. New features include an
"Insert Output of External Command", ^R^X, and a .spec
file is now included in the distribution. There are
cleanups in the usage code, fixes for regex parsing, the
file browser, the NO_CONVERT auto-detect, indented
justification, the internal spell checker, and a serious
bug where reading a file of 0 lines would hang nano.
Also, the "show position" code now shows the starting
column as 1 instead of 0. Have fun!
03/05/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.7 "lets change everything and see what breaks"
is released. New features include new flags
-N,--noconvert to stop any file format conversion and
-Q, --quotestr for the new quoted text justification, a
new tempnam() implementation to avoid silly warnings,
DOS and Mac file options in the Write File dialog,
multiple save files (file.1) for abnormal exits, ^C now
shows column as well as character position, and
multibuffer allows duplicate files, even unnamed ones.
Also, the static shortcut and toggle lengths are
history, nano now reads $SYSCONFDIR/nanorc if rc file
support is enabled, and nano is now built with (and
requires for rebuilding) autoconf 2.5.
This release also includes fixes for some memory
leaks, detecting DOS and Mac file format, justification,
suspending keys, search & replace under various
conditions, variable width for shortcuts, and the usual
ton of translation updates.
01/25/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.6 is released. Lots of new features in this
release. New Meta-keys were added as alternates for
control sequences: Meta-A for the marker key (^^), and
Meta-G for the 'goto dir' key in the file browser (^_).
The color syntax highlighting now supports multiple
lines via start="regex" end="regex" syntax, and the
.nanorc regex format itself has changed. Also, the
gettext code was upgraded to version 0.10.40, and nano
will now display a message if only occurrence of a given
search exists.
For bugfixes, there are fixes for spelling,
stray newlines in the usage() function, suspend issues
with tcsh, auto-indent and wrapping clashes, ugly code
in rcfile.c, global variable compatibility with AIX.
There are also oodles of translation updates. Have fun
with it.
01/05/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.5 is out. The main new feature in this
release is the changed behavior of the keypad. Nano now
does the Right Thing and used keypad() by default. If
you wish to use the keypad arrow keys in certain
terminals, you may use the -K or --keypad flag to use
the old behavior. Users of other OSes should see better
handling of their non-keypad keys in this release. Other
changes include more Hurd fixes, fixes parsing the
.nanorc, display fixes for the color syntax
highlighting, gettext stabilization and many translation
updates. This is almost like a stable release, much
like in the 0.9.x series when every other release was
the most stable one :) Have fun!
12/11/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.4 is released. This release contains
rudimentary color syntax support (but it's still
broken), compatibility fixes for the Hurd and FreeBSD,
spell checker and wrapping fixes, and more. It seems
that the amount of interest in the code is inversely
proportional to the amount of time since last release,
so it's time to show the world all the changes since
1.1.3 ;) Have fun with it!
10/26/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.3 is released. As far as new features go,
the help system is now available for all functions in
the editor. Also, nano will also now print a message on
the status bar when it automatically converts a file
from Mac or DOS format, and trying to load a file that
has already been loaded in multibuffer mode will now
also cause an error message. There is now a "goto
previous word" which you can use by hitting Meta-Space
Bar.
As for fixes, a SEVERE bug in the null_at code
which discarded the memory address of reallocated memory
has been fixed. This is probably the biggest bug fix in
well over the last year of development. There are also
some display fixes for when the screen shouldn't center
itself on cut or uncut text. Also, the comments in the
header files incorrectly said that nano was distributed
under version 1 of the GPL when the accompanying license
was the GPLv2.
If you're using nano-1.1, it is highly
recommended you upgrade to this release. If using 1.0,
wait for version 1.0.6 which should be available early
next week. Enjoy!
10/03/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.2 is out there. Many new features in this
release, including support for auto-converting from DOS
and Mac formatted files, as well as toggles for writing
out files in these formats. Pico's -o flag has been
implemented, as has some new smooth scrolling code
(which can be used in place of the default jerky
scrolling behavior). Also, there is now a "find
matching bracket/brace/etc" feature (Meta-]). The
.nanorc file now accepts setting the tabsize, and the
help text at the bottom of the editor is now better
spaced out in the search/replace prompts. There are
also the usual helping of bugfixes, translation updates
and, surely a bug or two. You better get ready!
07/28/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.1 is released. Our second 1.1 unstable
release features many bugfixes from the initial release,
in particular fixes for the multibuffer code, and
various compiler macro fixes. The shortcut lists for
the search and replace prompts are a little more logical
(with cancel the last option again), and the included
gettext was re-downgraded to 0.10.35 due to problems on
the PPC platform. GNU nano now includes its own aclocal
macros in the m4/ directory to allow rebuilding the
configure script to work on platforms regardless of
their gettext version.
07/15/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.0 is released. This is the first release
in the 1.1.x unstable series of GNU nano. It
incorporates all changes up to the 1.0.3 release, and
also includes many many new features, including
appending to as well as overwriting files, writing
marked text to a separate file, dynamic wrap length,
lots more compatibility with Pico, and new optional
features like .nanorc file support and multiple file
buffers! All in all, plenty of new stuff that's sure to
introduce lots of bugs ;-) Have fun with it, but be
careful, unstable means unstable.
04/06/2001 - GNU nano 1.0.1 is out there. The only new feature is a
configure option for those who want to disable all word
wrapping from nano, --disable-wrapping. Bug fixes this
release include some bugs with autoconf and i18n, and
several fixes in the file browser including a segfault
on Solaris, symlinks to directories now work properly,
and nano now sorts files case insensitively like Pilot.
Have fun with it.
03/22/2001 - GNU Nano 1.0 is released! The autoindent wrapping bug
has been fixed, as well as strange bug when using Pico
mode and regex search. There have also been some minor
spelling and documentation updates. As stated on the
website, there are currently no known bugs with nano,
but some will pop up eventually and they will be
addressed in subsequent releases. We hope you enjoy
this first stable release of nano, and as always,
feedback is welcome! nano@nano-editor.org.
02/19/2001 - Nano 0.9.99pre3 brings a lot of changes! The most
important being that nano is now officially a GNU
program. Some changes have been made for GNU
compatibility (like the default list of shortcuts, "^G
Get Help" is now Listed and "^_ Goto Line" is not). The
Yes/No/All keys have finally been internationalized
also. All in all, quite a few changes, considering nano
is supposed to be in a code freeze. But there are the
usual helping of bugfixes, a nasty bug when cutting text
in -k mode and some compatibility issues with older
ncurses libraries have also been fixed. All in all, a
lot to see.
01/31/2001 - Nano 0.9.99pre2 is released. Not surprisingly, all that is
new is bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes. There were a few
cleanups in unneeded global variables and duplicate
functions, but most is just fixing. Specifically, there
is now a preliminary (read: needs testing) fix for
resizing the editor in any mode other than normal edit
mode. Other fixes include some more tab completion
segfaults, and an silly segfault that occurred when
successfully writing a file on the 2nd try (i.e, after
an initial write error). Slowly but surely, on toward
1.0 we travel.
01/17/2001 - Nano 0.9.99pre1 is released. This is the first pre-1.0
release of nano, and is also the first release since the
code freeze for nano 1.0. Don't expect (or request) any
new features between now and nano 1.0, only bugfixes,
optimizations and doc/translation updates. For fixes, a
nasty segfault when trying to insert one's home
directory (~), some checks for the NumLock key making
the keypad go awry, window size sanity checks, many
autoconf fixes, and support for the KDE konsole keypad
layout. Have fun.
01/07/2001 - Nano 0.9.25 is the "Just one more feature I swear!"
release. It includes one new feature that Pico has had
forever, a built-in file browser. Since not everyone
may want this option, there is a --disable-browser
option to the configure script as well. Other changes
include slightly different keypad handling, and a bugfix
for crashes when tab completion in certain instances.
Have fun and Happy New Year!
12/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.24 is released. This version contains the last of
the security fixes for writing files, as well as for a
nasty segfault when nano is unable to open a file for
reading, among other fixes. Nano also now cowardly
refuses to open device files, to stop silly things like
trying to open /dev/zero. New features include being
Able to use Meta-Meta-<key> as Control-<key>, better
HURD support, and some new flags have been added for
Pico compatibility. Upgrading to this version is highly
recommended.
12/08/2000 - Nano 0.9.23 is the "race conditions bite" release. The
main reason for this release is the less-than-optimal
fix for the security issue in nano with following
symbolic links. Hopefully this will fix the problem
permanently. The --nofollow option also works again for
those who are real security nuts. There are also some
display and search fixes, and the --disable-spell
function was renamed to --disable-speller to be in line
with nano and Pico's "speller" term.
12/02/2000 - Nano 0.9.22 is released, with many more changes and
additions than imaginable. The most important change is
a fix for unsafe handling of symbolic links which could
lead to symlink attacks if nano were to exit because of
an error or signal. Also there are better checks when
saving files.
As for new features, username tab completion is now
working well, the internal spell checker code has been
tweaked, you can now unjustify if you don't like how the
justify formatted your text, and there are more options
for configure, including --disable-spell and
--disable-justify and --enable-extra (for those who like
surprises). All in all, a whole lot of changes in a
little over a week.
11/23/2000 - Happy Thanksgiving! Nano 0.9.21 is our "last version was
a big turkey" release. It fixes several bugs introduced
by the previous version, as well as a few long- standing
display bugs. All 0.9.20 users are strongly encouraged
to upgrade to this release.
11/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.20 is finally out the door. Probably the biggest
change is the brand new way nano displays previous
search and replace strings (they are now editable!)
This is a break from Pico's (inconsistent) interface, so
if you don't like the new way, "Pico" mode (-p on the
command line or Meta-P within nano) still works the
"old" way.
Other new features include being able to deal with
search strings of any length, a new internal spell
feature (courtesy of Mr. Rocco Corsi) and tab completion
when reading in or writing out files! There's also the
usual billion or so bug fixes. Feedback on this release
is welcome because so much has changed, especially with
the previous string display in search and replace.
Email -> nano@nano-editor.org <-. If you like
something, don't like something, or just want to order a
pizza, let us know!
10/02/2000 - Nano 0.9.19 is the "Chris is getting married in less than
a week and needs a distraction" release. There are only
a few actual code changes, mainly portability and
compiler warning fixes. Nano now also supports
PDCurses, which enables easily-built nano executables
for Windows NT and 95/98 for the brave. The official
nano site has changed (again) as well, check out
www.nano-editor.org for all the latest nano schtuff.
09/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.18 is unleashed. It has some new keyboard
handling code, Cygwin support out of the box, and a more
portable handler for the NOHELP toggle. There is also a
fix for a somewhat serious bug whereby trying to insert
a directory instead of a normal file would destroy the
contents of the editor. A must-see. Four stars.
09/04/2000 - Nano 0.9.17, the Labor Day release, is released after a
quiet spell (almost an entire month since last release!)
New features include better (not yet perfect) binary
display support and toggle support for most of the
program flags (M-c, M-i, M-z, M-x, M-p, M-w, M-m, M-k
and M-e for -c, -i, -x, -p, -w, -k, and -R).
08/09/2000 - Nano 0.9.16, after some struggling, is released. This
release should fix a few of the holes that 0.9.15 dug.
The "cutting text on the first line" bug is fixed, as is
the "cutting text on the last line" bug. Nice symmetry
there huh? Also the --tabsize argument should now work
as well as by using -T.
08/03/2000 - Nano 0.9.15 is the "I can't think of a release description"
release. There are the usual gala of display bugfixes,
a fix for the the nasty bug in -k mode that could create
a loop in the file being edited, and some other code
cleanup. Also, the -T option should now work regardless
of the curses library used. Yay.
07/27/2000 - Nano 0.9.14 is officially the "13 is so unlucky it should
be skipped as a version number" release. One typo
caused unending problems (calling nano with either -t or
-k caused both flags to be used). The -k code is also
now closer in functionality to Pico's -k mode; please
note that this code is not finished yet. Working on
this code has made me realize that there is not enough
abstraction in the code, and I will be working on that
for the next release. Until then, have fun with this
version.
07/23/2000 - Nano 0.9.13 has a few new bits and bobs, most notably the
-k option from Pico (cut to end of line). The majority
of changes in this release are bugfixes, however,
including the usual display fixes and fixes for writing
to symbolic links and un-writable files. Barring any
other major changes, this should be the feature set for
nano 1.0, whenever it might be released =-)
07/07/2000 - Nano 0.9.12 (The "lucky day" release) is bursting with new
features, bug fixes, and yummy fruit flavor. For
changes, the alternate replace keystroke ^W^T is now
^W^R to be compatible with later versions of Pico. ^W^T
is now goto line, again for Pico compatibility. As for
new features, the wonderful/hated magic line code has
returned with a vengeance! Also, regular expression
searches and replaces have been incorporated via the -R
flag. And, of course, there are the usual helping of
display and other bug fixes to top it all off.
06/20/2000 - Nano 0.9.11 presents drastic rewrites of the most buggy
routines in the program, specifically the wrapping code
and almost all of the display routines. There are many
improvements and bugfixes to the display subsystem in
general, but there may be bugs lurking yet. Also, after
many MANY requests, there is now an option to set the
displayed tab width (-T, --tabsize). Note that this
function just changes the way tabs LOOK in the editor,
the tabs you input are still real tabs of normal width
(usually 8 characters); nano just makes them look
smaller or bigger while in the editor. New in the
translation department is an Indonesian translation
(id).
06/06/2000 - Nano 0.9.10 is primarily a bugfix for the loss of SIGINT
when using "run and terminate" flags (for example,
--help). There are also some minor documentation
updates. This version of nano is the most stable in
quite some time, and is likely to be the most stable for
awhile. Users are encouraged to upgrade to this
version.
05/31/2000 - Nano 0.9.9 introduces much better working i18n support,
more portability, and a ton of bugfixes. While nano is
not likely anywhere near 1.0 in terms of code quality,
it gets a quantum leap closer with this release.
05/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.8 (the 'what broke now?' release) should fix
the resize crash people have been experiencing. It also
offers a new input method that should allow nano to do
things the right way (like ^S, ^Q, custom suspend keys)
and hopefully won't break with non-US keyboards. There
are also the obligatory display fixes and speedups.
Have fun with it.
05/14/2000 - Nano 0.9.7 (the Mother's Day release) continues in the long
line of display fixes, and also fixes the broken symlink
behavior (i.e, symlinks weren't being followed by
default). Hopefully all major bugs can be worked out
soon and we can have a 1.0 release before the end of the
year, but who knows.
05/08/2000 - Nano 0.9.6 cleans up a lot of the display bugs that 0.9.5
uncovered. There are improvements (and some remaining
segfaults) in the wrapping code, and even more display
optimizations. I would still say 0.9.4 or 0.9.2 are the
most stable versions of nano to date, but this one may
not be too bad =-)
05/01/2000 - Nano 0.9.5 attempts to speed up the display of text
to be at least somewhat reasonable. Much code profiling
has been done to reduce the ridiculous number of
redundant display updates. This will probably expose a
lot of bugs that can then be fixed, so this release is
probably not for the faint of heart. For anyone
curious, I would call nano 0.9.2 the most stable version
recently, so use that if you're not particularly
concerned with being on the bleeding edge.
04/25/2000 - Nano 0.9.4 fixes some problems in 0.9.3 with the last
line code and related segfaults. It also now has much
better handling for 8-bit characters. The --enable-tiny
code also produces a smaller executable.
04/19/2000 - Nano 0.9.3 is officially the "Micro$oft" release. It
underscores the recent problem of bugfixes introducing
more bugs than they fix. The most important change to
this version of nano is the removal of the "magic line".
You will no longer see a blank line at the end of the
file. If you want a new line at the end of your file,
you'll have to hit enter to get one.
NOTE: THIS BREAKS COMPATIBILITY WITH PICO.
Unfortunately, this feature has been causing many many
problems with nano so it is being removed for the time
being, and perhaps indefinitely.
Other new stuff includes an --enable-tiny option to make
nano ultra small (disabling i18n, detailed help and the
marker and mouse code), and --with-slang to use the
slang libraries instead of ncurses.
04/15/2000 - Nano 0.9.2 just fixes the serious segfault problem if
nano is invoked any way other than using the absolute
path. The bug was in the new code for checking whether
nano is invoked as 'pico'.
04/14/2000 - 0.9.1 has some more Pico compatibility built-in. The
option to switch to/from Search and Search/Replace (^T)
is now available, and nano now displays the more
Pico-like shortcut list when invoked as 'pico' (i.e, if
'pico' is a symlink to nano). There is an important
change to the handling of symbolic links as well. Now,
nano does the "correct" thing and automatically writes
to the object of the symlink, rather than replace the
symlink with the updated file. This behavior is still
available with the --nofollow or -l flags.
Other new things include a fix for the infamous
"recursive replace" bug, and more bugfixes in the
wrapping code.
04/07/2000 - Nano 0.9.0 has some updates, new language support and
a much better refresh setup (It's still not great,
but...) There should also be more stability editing
long lines, as there was a stupid mistake in the
update_line call. Silly me =)
03/22/2000 - Nano 0.8.9 is basically just a bugfix release of 0.8.8
to reflect the current stagnant status of the project.
Most things work, the rest doesn't doesn't work because
(a) I can't fix it or I would have already done so, and
(b) the amount of patches I'm receiving right now is
quite negligible. Fortunately, this release marks the
first release since I have acquired ownership of the
nano pages on SourceForge. Here's hoping SF will get us
some more visibility, translators and patches.
03/12/2000 - After a hiatus, I have finally moved (not unpacked though)
to my new home into Albany. Thus I should now have more
time to work on nano. Nano 0.8.8, the "dear god what
broke this time?" release, incorporates patches for both
i18n and many bugfixes. It is VERY likely something
broke this version, and it's likely I didn't even apply
the i18n stuff properly, so *it* may not even work.
I would like to announce that I'm going to need
translations soonish, so if you are fluent in other
languages than English (or even better, if your native
language is not English) and you would like to submit a
translation file to me, please feel free to do so. If
you do, I will list your name and email in the AUTHORS
file as the maintainer of the .po file, and from then on
it is yours to take care of and keep up to date.
03/01/2000 - Well, to continue my trend of going back on my previous
release's comments, nano 0.8.7 is released. The
crashing behavior was still occurring, and this most
recent fix also fixes some other wrapping problems, so
here you go. There may be another release soon, there
may not be, is that vague enough? =)
02/25/2000 - More minor bugfixes in 0.8.6, the bizarre behavior at the
end of a page has ceased, thankfully. I'm also moving
next weekend, so don't be shocked if you don't see a new
version of nano next week =-)
02/11/2000 - Okay, here we go again. Aside from a few minor fixes and
some under-the-hood changes, you won't notice much
different in this version of nano. I haven't gotten
much feedback on the help feature, is it simply amazing
or does no one care? Write and let me know! =)
02/08/2000 - Nano 0.8.3 marks the first time in a long time that there
has been more than three days since the last release.
New features include an initial help mode (YAY!),
hopefully much more support for i18n out of the box, and
a flag for more Pico compatibility in the shortcut lists
displayed. This release also marks the new nano
distribution site, http://www.asty.org/nano and email
address nano@asty.org for bugs, etc.
02/02/2000 - Okay, I hate to go back on what I said in the last release,
but I may be changing jobs very soon. I will release
version 0.8.2 as is (no i18n, no help menu (yet). I
expect things to settle down by the end of next week,
and then I can try to start on the i18n support and help
menu; look for these new features in version 0.8.5 to
0.9.0.
01/28/2000 - Nano 0.8.1 marks our first official step toward
internationalization (i18n) and the help system (^G). I
will be merging in Jordi's patches for initial i18n in
the next version, and will implement the help system
with i18n built into it shortly after that. Please
don't hesitate to send bug reports, as long as you're
sure the fault lies with nano =-).
01/25/2000 - Nano 0.8.0 is officially the 'let's try and be at least a
little portable, mmmmkay?' release. There are many
portability checks and fixes; many thanks to Andy Kahn
for his patches. I removed the broken do_spell behavior
with the 'spell' program; for now, we only try to call
'ispell' until I write a better method to handle the
output of the normal 'spell' command.
01/24/2000 - Nano 0.7.9 features many new features. Among them are a
new autoindent feature (-i, --autoindent), tempfile flag
like Pico's -t flag (-t, --tempfile), and preliminary
spelling program support. The spelling function tries
to run 'spell' and then 'ispell' in that order, but you
can specify another spelling program with -s or
--speller.
01/17/00 - Nano 0.7.7 is officially the 'way too much stuff changed this
release' release. It's the busy time at work for me, so
please don't get offended if your patch doesn't get
included in the next immediate version of nano. I'm
sure all the changes in this release will cause a few
bugs, so 0.7.8 will primarily be about fixing those
bugs.
Things added this release include resizability (kinda),
new -x and -c flags (see nano -h for help), long command
line flag support, and the usual array of bugfixes.
01/15/00 - Nano 0.7.6 is officially the 'lightning' release. It now
loads large files much faster than previous versions,
and is even much faster than Pico or vi in some rather
rudimentary tests. Many thanks to Adam Rogoyski for the
read_byte patch!
01/09/00 - As of this version (0.7.4), TIP has officially been renamed
to nano. The new homepage is at
http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/astyanax/nano. Please
update your bookmarks, tell your friends, and all that
jazz.
$Id$
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