Chris Allegretta | 595d6e0 | 2008-03-19 03:01:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | 2008/03/18 - GNU nano 2.1.0 "under old mismanagement" is released. |
| 2 | This first release in the 2.1 development series |
| 3 | introduces rebinadble keys for most actions inside |
| 4 | the editor. Please see the nanorc(5) page for |
| 5 | more information on configuring key bindings. Please |
| 6 | also report all keybinding bugs (crashes, missing |
| 7 | menu functions) using the Savannah bug tracker URL, |
| 8 | https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano and |
| 9 | thanks for sticking with us! |
| 10 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 200f0c8 | 2007-12-20 18:57:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | 2007/12/20 - GNU nano 2.0.7 keeps its balance. This release fixes |
| 12 | several bugs, among others: a segfault and several |
| 13 | cursor positioning problems when uncutting text or |
| 14 | inserting files into the current buffer; a problem where |
| 15 | the total number of characters would be miscalculated |
| 16 | when replacing single-byte characters with multibyte |
| 17 | ones; several minor issues with the statusbar prompt |
| 18 | involving text display and mouse support; and several |
| 19 | oddities when tab-completing in the middle of a line. |
| 20 | It also improves autodetection of DOS and Mac format |
| 21 | files, properly supports the mouse wheel when using a |
| 22 | version of ncurses built with the --enable-ext-mouse |
| 23 | option, fixes some problems under NetBSD curses, adds a |
| 24 | lot of translation updates, and adds more minor |
| 25 | documentation updates. Slang curses emulation support |
| 26 | has also been changed to turn off all the options that |
| 27 | --enable-tiny does, as it's hopelessly broken otherwise. |
| 28 | Finally, nano is now licensed under the GNU GPL version |
| 29 | 3 or later, and its documentation is now dual-licensed |
| 30 | under the GNU GPL version 3 or later and the GNU FDL |
| 31 | version 1.2 or later. Have fun. |
| 32 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 75500fd | 2007-12-17 23:07:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | 2007/04/26 - GNU nano 2.0.6 "that was quick" is released. This release |
| 34 | fixes a potential segfault after justifying text marked |
| 35 | from the bottom up. It also adds one more minor |
| 36 | documentation update. Enjoy. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | 2007/04/22 - GNU nano 2.0.5 braces for impact. Among other things, this |
| 39 | release fixes various problems (including a segfault) |
| 40 | when trying to open or save a file in a directory |
| 41 | beginning with "~" that isn't a home directory; fixes a |
| 42 | problem where a file with no name could be saved over an |
| 43 | existing filename with no warning about overwriting it; |
| 44 | properly disallows opening directories or device files |
| 45 | from "include" commands in nanorc files; no longer |
| 46 | displays a misleading prompt when trying to save in |
| 47 | restricted mode with the mark on; and properly supports |
| 48 | the Cancel and Shift-Cancel keys. It also improves |
| 49 | several color syntaxes to highlight trailing whitespace, |
| 50 | just as the Java syntax does, and adds yet more minor |
| 51 | documentation updates. Have fun. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | 2007.04.06 - GNU nano 2.0.4 heralds the dawn. This release contains |
| 54 | proper support for the Ctrl-[arrow key], Shift-[arrow |
| 55 | key], and F13-F16 keys under Xfce's Terminal. It also |
| 56 | adds still more minor documentation updates. Enjoy. |
| 57 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 8a89096 | 2007-01-29 12:33:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | 2007.01.29 - GNU nano 2.0.3 flows toward its ending. This release |
| 59 | contains several minor optimizations to make the |
| 60 | executable a little smaller under some circumstances, |
| 61 | some translation updates, improvements to the color |
| 62 | syntax for Python, and still more minor documentation |
| 63 | updates. Have fun. |
| 64 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 518b7fa | 2006-12-21 02:47:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | 2006.12.20 - GNU nano 2.0.2 forges ahead. This release fixes a segfault |
| 66 | when trying to save in a nonexistent directory; fixes |
| 67 | handling of strings containing nulls at the "Write File", |
| 68 | "Insert File", "Execute Command", and "Go to Directory" |
| 69 | prompts; fixes several minor memory leaks; fixes two |
| 70 | more potential compilation warnings; adds a few |
| 71 | translation updates; and adds a few more minor |
| 72 | documentation updates. Enjoy. |
| 73 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 16fd49b | 2006-11-20 14:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | 2006.11.20 - GNU nano 2.0.1 emerges from its cocoon. This release |
| 75 | contains several bugfixes: saving one file over another |
| 76 | will now always warn about overwriting it, overwriting |
| 77 | a file is no longer possible when saving a new file in |
| 78 | restricted mode, and zero-length Unicode characters are |
| 79 | now highlighted properly when nano is built without |
| 80 | regular expression support. It also adds several minor |
| 81 | documentation updates. Have fun with it. |
| 82 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | f8df4a0 | 2006-11-06 16:03:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | 2006.11.06 - GNU nano 2.0.0 does its little dance. This release adds |
| 84 | documentation updates and a few cosmetic tweaks. |
| 85 | For those who haven't been following nano 1.3 |
| 86 | development, there are a ton of new features, including |
| 87 | support for UTF-8, moving to a specified line and column |
| 88 | instead of just a line, improved color syntax |
| 89 | highlighting, inserting previously untypeable characters |
| 90 | using "Verbatim Input" mode, and copying text into the |
| 91 | cutbuffer without cutting it. There are also fixes for |
| 92 | some long-standing bugs, such as the "NumLock glitch" |
| 93 | from nano 1.2.x, and the inability to unjustify text |
| 94 | after resizing. Finally, there are also a ton of |
| 95 | translation updates and new translations, as well as new |
| 96 | color syntaxes. See the UPGRADE file for more |
| 97 | information, and enjoy the new stable release. |
| 98 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 1295699 | 2006-10-25 15:27:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | 2006.10.25 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre3 learns to appreciate life. This |
| 100 | release fixes a bug where the screen sometimes wouldn't |
| 101 | be updated properly after copying text into the |
| 102 | cutbuffer, fixes a potential warning while compiling, |
| 103 | and fixes a few other minor inconsistencies. Have fun. |
| 104 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 2953f78 | 2006-10-02 04:08:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 105 | 2006.10.02 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre2 crosses the threshold. This release |
| 106 | fixes a few more bugs: cursor positioning after leaving |
| 107 | the statusbar prompt has been fixed, and verbatim input |
| 108 | at the statusbar prompt now properly handles newlines. |
| 109 | Enjoy. |
| 110 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 890ea44 | 2006-08-29 17:29:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | 2006.08.29 - GNU nano 1.9.99pre1 passes through the flames. This |
| 112 | release fixes various bugs in the last version: the |
| 113 | mouse support properly ignores everything except clicks |
| 114 | of the left mouse button; the statusbar is now blanked |
| 115 | properly when it should be; indenting and unindenting |
| 116 | operate on the current line when the mark is off; nano |
| 117 | should build on Tru64, NetBSD, and other systems that |
| 118 | use termcap instead of terminfo in their curses |
| 119 | libraries; the built-in file browser now properly |
| 120 | navigates file lists that take up only one row; the |
| 121 | cursor position is now completely restored after |
| 122 | inserting a file into the current buffer, and after |
| 123 | inserting the output of a command into a new buffer; the |
| 124 | ^X shortcut at the search prompt has been removed, as |
| 125 | official Pico doesn't include it and it's too easily |
| 126 | confused with Exit; the screen is updated properly after |
| 127 | scrolling a line without moving the cursor; the keyboard |
| 128 | input routines behave more consistently; and so on. |
| 129 | Have fun with it. |
| 130 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | db5b547 | 2006-06-26 04:01:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | 2006.06.26 - GNU nano 1.3.12 escapes the darkness. This release |
| 132 | contains the last new features that nano will have |
| 133 | before 2.0: copying text into the cutbuffer without |
| 134 | cutting it, indenting lines of marked text with a single |
| 135 | keystroke, reworked help text that should be easier for |
| 136 | new users, searching for filenames in the file browser, |
| 137 | the ability to include color regexes in files separate |
| 138 | from nanorc files, etc. It also contains many bugfixes. |
| 139 | Text can now be unjustified after justifying it and |
| 140 | resizing the window; the screen is now cleared when |
| 141 | suspending; the "default" color syntax is now handled |
| 142 | properly at all times; lines of text containing tabs are |
| 143 | now wrapped at the right place; double-column characters |
| 144 | are now properly displayed when past the right edge of |
| 145 | the screen; invalid multi-line color regexes are now |
| 146 | ignored; and so on. Enjoy. |
| 147 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 1856ec4 | 2006-03-30 06:34:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | 2006.03.30 - GNU nano 1.3.11 awakens from its fever dream. This release |
| 149 | focuses mostly on bugfixes, which include better |
| 150 | handling of the cursor at the statusbar prompt, support |
David Lawrence Ramsey | ce5284b | 2006-03-30 07:01:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 151 | for certain combinations of Shift and keypad keys in |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 1856ec4 | 2006-03-30 06:34:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 152 | both normal and --rebind-keypad mode, a fix for a minor |
| 153 | display problem after some searches, a real fix for a |
| 154 | long-standing segfault when displaying overly long |
| 155 | lines, and a real fix for nano's not hanging up properly |
| 156 | in xterm under certain circumstances. There are also |
| 157 | several new features, such as the ability to set the |
| 158 | characters used as brackets when searching for matching |
| 159 | brackets, and tab completion of directories at the "Go |
| 160 | To Directory" prompt. Have fun. |
| 161 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 2cd986c | 2005-12-23 16:08:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 162 | 2005.12.23 - GNU nano 1.3.10 rises to the surface. This release |
| 163 | contains several new features as well as fixes for |
| 164 | several longstanding bugs. The former include the |
| 165 | ability to scroll up or down single lines without |
| 166 | scrolling the cursor, reworked bracket searching code |
| 167 | that doesn't require regular expression support, |
| 168 | reworked command execution code that uses $SHELL if |
| 169 | available instead of hardcoding "/bin/sh", and the |
| 170 | ability to no longer add newlines to files that don't |
| 171 | end in them via the -L/--nonewlines option. The latter |
| 172 | include fixes to the statusbar prompt so that mouse |
| 173 | clicks work properly on it, fixes to the Yes/No/All |
| 174 | prompt so that mouse clicks on it work properly when |
| 175 | -O/--morespace is used, and fixes to the resize handling |
| 176 | so that nano dies properly when the terminal is too |
| 177 | small to display a prompt. Enjoy. |
| 178 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 5a9d493 | 2005-10-24 01:44:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 179 | 2005.10.23 - GNU nano 1.3.9 breaks through the wall. This release |
| 180 | includes major enhancements as well as bugfixes. The |
| 181 | enhancements include better handling of invalid UTF-8, |
| 182 | expansion of the word count option to also count lines |
| 183 | and characters in the file or selection, more efficient |
| 184 | screen update routines, a readded -K/--rebindkeypad |
| 185 | option to work around numeric keypad problems on |
| 186 | terminals that don't show the usual NumLock glitch, a |
| 187 | new -W/--wordbounds option to properly detect words |
| 188 | containing punctuation when moving among them, and |
| 189 | massive improvements to the color code such as handling |
| 190 | of unspecified foreground colors, more efficient memory |
| 191 | usage for color regexes, and new reserved syntaxes |
| 192 | "default" and "none". The bugfixes include fixes for |
| 193 | the rewritten history code, fixes for potential line |
| 194 | numbering problems on 64-bit platforms, fixes for a few |
| 195 | long-standing minor display problems, a fix for erroneous |
| 196 | hangups occurring while waiting for input, and a fix for |
| 197 | a segfault when displaying certain overly long lines. |
| 198 | Have fun with it. |
| 199 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 665b1fb | 2005-06-30 17:16:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | 2005.06.30 - GNU nano 1.3.8 floats at its own level. This release |
| 201 | contains several new features. Among other things, you |
| 202 | can now move to a specified column number as well as |
| 203 | line number within a file, file backups saved in a |
| 204 | backup directory will have unique names, the search and |
| 205 | replace history routines should work more consistently, |
| 206 | you can get a word count by pressing Meta-D at the edit |
| 207 | window, and there's a new -E/--tabstospaces option to |
| 208 | convert all typed tabs to spaces (--backupdir's short |
| 209 | option has been changed to -C). In terms of bugfixes, |
| 210 | this release contains fixes for minor problems with |
| 211 | screen updates, UTF-8 display, and flow control; a fix |
| 212 | for a segfault when displaying some lines ending with |
| 213 | tabs; better handling of constant cursor position |
| 214 | display; improved color parsing in the rcfile; and |
| 215 | support for the "Regexp" toggle in tiny mode |
| 216 | (-R/--regexp is gone, and --restricted's short option |
| 217 | has been changed to -R), among other things. Enjoy. |
| 218 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | c32a5e7 | 2005-04-10 03:58:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 219 | 2005.04.10 - GNU nano 1.3.7 claws its way to the top. This release |
| 220 | mostly contains bugfixes for the massive amount of new |
| 221 | code in 1.3.6. Among other things, nano builds with |
| 222 | debug support again; going into the help browser at the |
| 223 | "Read File" prompt no longer kicks you out of the prompt |
| 224 | after you exit the help browser; paragraph searching no |
| 225 | longer skips over certain cases of single-line |
| 226 | paragraphs; the titlebar no longer cuts off some UTF-8 |
| 227 | strings prematurely; and the text displayed in the help |
| 228 | browser is now wrapped as it was in nano 1.2.x, taking |
| 229 | UTF-8 support into account. New features include an |
| 230 | --enable/disable-utf8 configure option to explicitly |
| 231 | turn detection of UTF-8 support on or off, and sample |
| 232 | regexes for C++ as well as C. Have fun. |
| 233 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | bec01bd | 2005-03-20 20:02:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 234 | 2005.03.20 - GNU nano 1.3.6 "shout it from the rooftops" is released. |
| 235 | This release finally includes the long-awaited support |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 7ec8d7c | 2005-03-21 08:03:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 236 | for UTF-8. Other new features include the ability to |
David Lawrence Ramsey | bec01bd | 2005-03-20 20:02:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 237 | insert UTF-8 characters using verbatim input; the |
| 238 | ability to delete all text from the cursor position to |
| 239 | the end of the file via ^W^X as (patched) Pico does; |
| 240 | improvements to input and output so that pasted text |
| 241 | displays faster, improvements to the statusbar prompt so |
| 242 | that more edit window shortcuts, including verbatim |
| 243 | input and previous/next word search, work in it; a new |
| 244 | option to allow using the formerly always-blank second |
| 245 | line of the screen as part of the edit window; and the |
| 246 | ability to refresh the help browser and file browser |
| 247 | windows via Ctrl-L. Notable bug fixes include a fix for |
| 248 | a segfault when using full justify, and a fix for the |
| 249 | long-standing bug where nano would keep running if the |
| 250 | terminal it was in died unexpectedly. Enjoy. |
| 251 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 2c86dc6 | 2004-11-22 17:55:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 252 | 2004.11.22 - GNU nano 1.3.5 hurls itself forward. New features in this |
| 253 | release include the ability to replace only marked text |
| 254 | when the mark is on, improvements to smooth scrolling so |
| 255 | that it applies everywhere instead of just affecting the |
| 256 | movement keys, improvements to how files are opened so |
| 257 | that they are no longer displayed unnecessarily, support |
| 258 | for multiple +LINE arguments in addition to multiple |
| 259 | filenames on the command line, autodetection of the |
| 260 | format to save a file in based on the format it was in |
| 261 | when it was opened, the ability to toggle both ways |
| 262 | between the "Read File" and "Execute Command" prompts |
| 263 | and the "Search" and "Go to Line" prompts, and support |
| 264 | for cross-compiling nano. As for bug fixes, the |
| 265 | "tabsize" nanorc option works again, mouse clicks on the |
| 266 | shortcut list trigger the right shortcuts again, |
| 267 | tab-completing a filename with %'s in it no longer |
| 268 | causes a segfault, the internal spell checker no longer |
| 269 | skips words after the cursor position when the cursor is |
| 270 | in the middle of the file, and spell checking of only |
| 271 | marked text now works properly. Have fun with it. |
| 272 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | c6718cf | 2004-08-17 20:38:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 273 | 2004.08.17 - GNU nano 1.3.4 marches forth after a false start. This |
| 274 | release mainly features fixes for the bugs that crept |
| 275 | into the last release. Among other things, nano now |
| 276 | compiles again with certain options, quoted justify now |
| 277 | works properly on systems without regex.h, full justify |
| 278 | no longer segfaults when used on a file with no |
| 279 | paragraphs, previous paragraph searching works properly |
| 280 | again, tab completion is properly disabled when needed |
| 281 | in restricted mode, Ctrl-C is no longer disabled after |
| 282 | using the alternate spell checker, the permissions of a |
| 283 | newly created file now match those of nano 1.2.x again, |
| 284 | and replacing all text in a file now properly updates |
| 285 | the screen in all cases. New features include sample |
| 286 | regexes for patch files, improvements to the sample |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 86058fa | 2007-01-17 16:24:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 287 | regexes for C files, and support for strings greater |
| 288 | than 1023 characters and/or containing nulls in |
David Lawrence Ramsey | c6718cf | 2004-08-17 20:38:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 289 | .nano_history. Additionally, the full justify keystroke |
| 290 | has been changed to match current Pico, and whitespace |
| 291 | display mode is now turned off by default. Enjoy. |
| 292 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | e115156 | 2004-06-28 13:17:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 293 | 2004.06.28 - GNU nano 1.3.3 marches forth. There are several new |
| 294 | features in this release, including a restricted mode |
| 295 | that provides better security than just setting an |
| 296 | operating directory, the ability to justify the entire |
| 297 | file at once, support for a "smart" home key that can |
| 298 | leap from the beginning of text on a line to the true |
| 299 | beginning of the line (or the reverse) in one stroke, |
| 300 | support for specifying an alternative spell checker in |
| 301 | $SPELL, the ability to specify the characters used to |
| 302 | display spaces and tabs so that they can easily be told |
| 303 | apart, and the ability to specify the characters marking |
| 304 | the ends of sentences as used in justification. There |
| 305 | are also several bug fixes; among other things, |
| 306 | justification now keeps spaces at the ends of all but |
| 307 | the last line of a paragraph as Pico does, saving a |
| 308 | marked selection no longer changes the current filename |
| 309 | to the filename the selection was saved under, resizing |
| 310 | now works better and no longer corrupts the screen under |
| 311 | slang, and the movement functions now avoid doing |
| 312 | unnecessary redraws and hence work faster. In short, |
| 313 | there are a lot of new things to play with. Enjoy. |
| 314 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | f70f0cf | 2004-03-31 18:42:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 315 | 2004.03.31 - GNU nano 1.3.2 is prepared for the void. New features in |
| 316 | this release include the ability to spell-check only |
| 317 | marked text and the ability to save all backup files in |
| 318 | a specified directory instead of wherever the original |
| 319 | files are. Bug fixes include a fix for a segfault when |
| 320 | replacing certain regular expressions, fixes for some |
| 321 | misbehavior when doing searches, minor fixes to verbatim |
| 322 | input mode and keyboard input in general, better |
| 323 | handling of window resizes at certain times, and |
| 324 | allowing the mark to be saved properly again when |
| 325 | switching between multiple file buffers. nano has also |
| 326 | been ported to the Tandem NonStop Kernel. Have fun. |
| 327 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | fa1497b | 2004-01-09 23:22:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 328 | 2004.01.09 - GNU nano 1.3.1 is outside the gates. This release |
| 329 | features, among other things, fixes for the input |
| 330 | routines to deal with some problems they had, a |
| 331 | reorganized shortcut list for the help browser, minor |
| 332 | Pico compatibility improvements for the file browser, |
| 333 | fixes for misbehavior when replacing certain regular |
| 334 | expressions, and the ability to highlight those regular |
| 335 | expressions properly. It also allows searching without |
| 336 | prompting to work in view mode, adds support for glib |
| 337 | 2.x for those systems that need it, updates the .spec |
| 338 | file for the 1.3 branch, prompts you first when you try |
| 339 | to save a file under a different name, and adds a new |
| 340 | verbatim input mode that acts as ^V does under vi, but |
| 341 | with additional Pico compatibility (explained in the |
| 342 | FAQ). Basically, a bunch of fixes and a few new |
| 343 | features for your editor of choice. Enjoy. |
| 344 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 133f7b1 | 2003-10-22 17:15:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 345 | 2003.10.22 - GNU nano 1.3.0 is loosed upon the world. This is the first |
| 346 | release in the unstable 1.3.x series, and as such it |
| 347 | includes a lot of new features, including the addition |
| 348 | of a -d option for those FreeBSD users with Backspace |
| 349 | keys that act like Delete keys, the ability to repeat |
| 350 | the last search without prompting, the ability to search |
| 351 | for the beginning or end of a paragraph, new smooth |
| 352 | paging routines to go with the smooth scrolling |
| 353 | routines, and various improvements to the input and |
| 354 | display routines to make them behave more intuitively. |
| 355 | It also includes the usual load of bugfixes. Enjoy. |
| 356 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 357 | 2003.08.11 - GNU nano 1.2.2 is released, only four months since the |
Chris Allegretta | 3364214 | 2003-08-12 01:49:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 358 | last version :-). This release includes fixes for |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 359 | broken regex detection, search history recall, and |
| 360 | keypad handling with -K. Debugging strings are no |
| 361 | longer translated and comments denote where translations |
David Lawrence Ramsey | b159f94 | 2006-07-28 17:06:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 362 | should be as short as possible (i.e. the statusbar). |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 363 | There are new examples for syntax highlighting, and |
| 364 | documentation updates and fixes. The 1.3.0 CVS tree |
| 365 | will be opening soon for all your nano desires, so stay |
| 366 | tuned! |
Chris Allegretta | 3364214 | 2003-08-12 01:49:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 367 | |
Chris Allegretta | aa45931 | 2003-04-20 16:20:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 368 | 2003.04.19 - Happy Easter! GNU nano 1.2.1 is released. This release |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 369 | features a new check for broken regexec() |
Chris Allegretta | aa45931 | 2003-04-20 16:20:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 370 | implementations and some variable, function and macro |
| 371 | cleanups. Fixes are included for search history, |
| 372 | cutting marked text, alt keyboard mode, and the usual |
| 373 | translation and documentation updates. |
| 374 | |
Chris Allegretta | 2b4ead9 | 2003-02-20 01:56:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 375 | 2003.02.19 - GNU nano 1.2.0 is released. Few changes from pre3, just |
| 376 | some doc and translation updates, and bugfixes for |
| 377 | justify and file conversion. For those of you who |
| 378 | haven't kept up with the 1.1 unstable series, v1.2 |
| 379 | brings nanorc support, color syntax highlighting, |
| 380 | multiple file buffers, search/replace history and much |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 381 | much more. Please read the UPGRADE file for details, |
| 382 | and enjoy GNU nano 1.2.0. |
Chris Allegretta | 2b4ead9 | 2003-02-20 01:56:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 383 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 384 | 2003.02.13 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre3 "The last testing version, no |
Chris Allegretta | 7ba3279 | 2003-02-14 03:09:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 385 | really!" is released. This release includes fixes for |
| 386 | wrapping (again), resizing, color syntax highlighting, |
| 387 | rcfile parsing, the mouse code, more memory leaks, and |
| 388 | some reversion of the code to get the user's home |
| 389 | directory (nano will now again rely on $HOME). There |
| 390 | are also translation updates, a new manual page for the |
| 391 | nanorc file, and an UPGRADE file detailing the changes |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 392 | since version 1.0. Please submit reports for any bugs |
Chris Allegretta | 7ba3279 | 2003-02-14 03:09:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 393 | you might find to the development team |
| 394 | (nano-devel@gnu.org), and enjoy nano almost-1.2.0 ;-) |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 395 | |
Chris Allegretta | 5c8c276 | 2003-02-03 15:21:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 396 | 2003.02.03 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre2 "bugs in my pockets, bugs in my |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 397 | shoes" is released. There are, not surprisingly, only |
| 398 | bugfixes in this release as we move toward the stable |
| 399 | 1.2.0 release. Fixes are included for translatable |
| 400 | string format, subexpression replacement, constant |
| 401 | cursor position, invalid search regexes, justify, screen |
| 402 | state on SIGHUP and SIGTERM, cutting to end cuts with |
| 403 | long lines, many file browser and operating directory |
| 404 | bugs, memory and file descriptor leaks, marker code, |
| 405 | spell checker, the mouse code with long lines, multiple |
| 406 | buffers and non-file open errors, replacement string |
| 407 | length, and a silly but serious history message crash. |
| 408 | There is also a drastic improvement in CPU utilization |
| 409 | for the color regex code. |
Chris Allegretta | 5c8c276 | 2003-02-03 15:21:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 410 | Depending on the number of bugs found in this |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 411 | release, there may be a 1.1.99pre3 or RC1, or just a |
| 412 | 1.2.0 release. Most of the major bugs seem to have been |
| 413 | worked out, so if you are waiting for a good time to |
| 414 | test nano before the official 1.2.0 release, this would |
| 415 | be the one to use. Happy bug hunting! |
Chris Allegretta | 5c8c276 | 2003-02-03 15:21:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 416 | |
Chris Allegretta | d46f544 | 2003-01-17 21:47:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 417 | 2003.01.17 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre1 "enough already" has been released. |
| 418 | This release is, barring bug fixes and documentation |
| 419 | updates, what version 1.2.0 has looked like, feature |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 420 | wise. There will very likely be bugs, just due the |
| 421 | volume of changes made in this release. Search and |
| 422 | replace string history has been added, including an |
| 423 | option to log history to ~/.nano_history (-H, |
| 424 | --historylog). Because of this, the Pico incompatible |
| 425 | search/replace string behavior that used to be the |
| 426 | default has been deleted. The old "pico" flag (-p) is |
| 427 | now compatible with Pico's "preserve" mode for allowing |
| 428 | flow control characters; by default this version ignores |
| 429 | both ^Q and ^S. The --disable-wrapping-as-root |
| 430 | configure option has been forward ported from version |
| 431 | 1.0.x, and a new flag to enable all extra options |
| 432 | (--enable-all) has been added. The internal spell |
| 433 | checker has been improved, meaning you will now be |
| 434 | prompted only once for each unique capitalization of a |
| 435 | given word. |
Chris Allegretta | d46f544 | 2003-01-17 21:47:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 436 | There have also been lots of bug fixes, |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 437 | including the "trying to insert a directory name in |
Chris Allegretta | d46f544 | 2003-01-17 21:47:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 438 | multibuffer mode bug", the ugly spell checker scrolling, |
| 439 | the color code, cutting text crashes, justification, |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 440 | deleting the "magic line" via replace, and cursor |
| 441 | positioning on the statusbar. There have also been the |
| 442 | usual helping of translation and documentation updates. |
Chris Allegretta | d46f544 | 2003-01-17 21:47:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 443 | Please send all new feedback on this release |
| 444 | direct to the development list (nano-devel@gnu.org). |
| 445 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 446 | 10/24/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.12 "Make Jordi happy" is released. This |
David Lawrence Ramsey | e30c308 | 2006-04-20 03:20:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 447 | release demonstrates that nano is starting to freeze for |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 448 | version 1.2. New features include a Meta-Y toggle for |
| 449 | syntax highlighting, pluralized i18n, and a handler for |
| 450 | SIGTERM. Nano now ignores XOFF (^S) to stop accidental |
| 451 | lock-ups, and no longer references malloc.h. |
Chris Allegretta | 2257893 | 2002-10-25 03:14:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 452 | Also included are fixes for zero-length regex |
| 453 | matches, segfaults with --disable-mouse, justification, |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 454 | memory corruption with the browser, version and help |
| 455 | cmdline output, and translation updates. Aside from the |
| 456 | (currently up in the air) search history behavior, the |
| 457 | next version of nano should be 1.1.99pre1. Have fun! |
Chris Allegretta | 2257893 | 2002-10-25 03:14:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 458 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 459 | 10/01/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.11 "Oddball" is released. This release |
| 460 | features a new version of gettext, a new and improved |
| 461 | syntax highlighting engine, and some updates for the |
| 462 | nanorc.sample file. The toggles for case sensitivity |
| 463 | (Meta-C) and regular expressions (Meta-R) have changed |
| 464 | in the search and replace prompts, multibuffer status is |
| 465 | now displayed and can be toggled from the insert file |
| 466 | menu, and some wrapping behavior that changed in 1.1.10 |
| 467 | has reverted. The --enable-color warning was also made |
| 468 | less severe, as the color syntax code has improved, and |
| 469 | nano now uses extended regexes in the .nanorc file. |
| 470 | Also included are fixes for various memory |
| 471 | leaks, the operating directory option, username tab |
| 472 | completion, the page_up and down arrow, go to previous |
| 473 | word and next word, nanorc parser and line wrapping |
| 474 | code. Have fun! |
Chris Allegretta | 6866f6f | 2002-10-02 00:20:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 475 | |
Chris Allegretta | 70bb886 | 2002-07-24 01:34:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 476 | 07/25/2002 - At long last! GNU nano 1.1.10 "What didn't we break?" is |
| 477 | released. This version of GNU nano features version |
| 478 | 0.11.2 of gettext, building with automake 1.6, some new |
| 479 | code for displaying control characters, browser |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 480 | improvements, a new backup file option (-B, --backup), a |
| 481 | new option to ignore rc files (-I,--ignorercfiles), |
Chris Allegretta | 70bb886 | 2002-07-24 01:34:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 482 | compatibility with -pedantic, handling null characters |
| 483 | before EOF, a slightly sportier nanorc.sample and more. |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 484 | Fixes are included included for justification, |
| 485 | the reading and writing file routines, resizing and fill |
| 486 | length, millions of memory leaks, the usage screen was |
Chris Allegretta | 70bb886 | 2002-07-24 01:34:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 487 | updated, and the the --quotestr and --regexp really work |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 488 | now ;-) Enjoy :) |
Chris Allegretta | 70bb886 | 2002-07-24 01:34:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 489 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 490 | 05/12/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.9 is released, happy Mother's Day! This |
| 491 | release includes many new features, including a prepend |
| 492 | mode (^O,M-P), a new "syntax" command in the .nanorc to |
| 493 | allow multiple syntax highlighting types, and a new -Y, |
| 494 | --syntax flag to set a specific one if there's no |
David Lawrence Ramsey | b159f94 | 2006-07-28 17:06:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 495 | filename regex to match it against (i.e. w/mutt). The |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 496 | ^space and M-space keys will now show up in the help |
| 497 | menu, which itself has been tweaked a bit, and many more |
| 498 | configure options should now cooperate (like the odd |
| 499 | pairing of --enable-tiny and --enable-multibuffer). The |
| 500 | marker should now work when using multiple buffers, and |
| 501 | the huge memory leak in color syntax highlighting has |
| 502 | been fixed. A lot of new stuff for everyone's favorite |
| 503 | text editor ;) Have fun! |
Chris Allegretta | 8b75a78 | 2002-05-13 00:09:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 504 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 505 | 03/30/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.8 is released. New features include an |
Chris Allegretta | 4ceb30c | 2002-03-30 16:56:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 506 | "Insert Output of External Command", ^R^X, and a .spec |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 507 | file is now included in the distribution. There are |
| 508 | cleanups in the usage code, fixes for regex parsing, the |
| 509 | file browser, the NO_CONVERT auto-detect, indented |
| 510 | justification, the internal spell checker, and a serious |
| 511 | bug where reading a file of 0 lines would hang nano. |
| 512 | Also, the "show position" code now shows the starting |
Chris Allegretta | 4ceb30c | 2002-03-30 16:56:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 513 | column as 1 instead of 0. Have fun! |
| 514 | |
Chris Allegretta | 97489d2 | 2002-03-05 23:47:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 515 | 03/05/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.7 "lets change everything and see what breaks" |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 516 | is released. New features include new flags |
Chris Allegretta | 97489d2 | 2002-03-05 23:47:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 517 | -N,--noconvert to stop any file format conversion and |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 518 | -Q, --quotestr for the new quoted text justification, a |
| 519 | new tempnam() implementation to avoid silly warnings, |
Chris Allegretta | 97489d2 | 2002-03-05 23:47:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 520 | DOS and Mac file options in the Write File dialog, |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 521 | multiple save files (file.1) for abnormal exits, ^C now |
| 522 | shows column as well as character position, and |
Chris Allegretta | 97489d2 | 2002-03-05 23:47:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 523 | multibuffer allows duplicate files, even unnamed ones. |
| 524 | Also, the static shortcut and toggle lengths are |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 81bfd82 | 2006-03-26 17:41:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 525 | history, nano now reads SYSCONFDIR/nanorc if rc file |
Chris Allegretta | 97489d2 | 2002-03-05 23:47:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 526 | support is enabled, and nano is now built with (and |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 527 | requires for rebuilding) autoconf 2.5. |
Chris Allegretta | 97489d2 | 2002-03-05 23:47:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 528 | This release also includes fixes for some memory |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 1eadebe | 2004-01-25 21:36:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 529 | leaks, detecting DOS and Mac file format, justification, |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 530 | suspending keys, search & replace under various |
Chris Allegretta | 97489d2 | 2002-03-05 23:47:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 531 | conditions, variable width for shortcuts, and the usual |
| 532 | ton of translation updates. |
| 533 | |
Chris Allegretta | 491029e | 2002-01-25 17:02:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 534 | 01/25/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.6 is released. Lots of new features in this |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 535 | release. New Meta-keys were added as alternates for |
Chris Allegretta | 05f4065 | 2002-01-23 02:37:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 536 | control sequences: Meta-A for the marker key (^^), and |
| 537 | Meta-G for the 'goto dir' key in the file browser (^_). |
| 538 | The color syntax highlighting now supports multiple |
| 539 | lines via start="regex" end="regex" syntax, and the |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 540 | .nanorc regex format itself has changed. Also, the |
Chris Allegretta | 05f4065 | 2002-01-23 02:37:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 541 | gettext code was upgraded to version 0.10.40, and nano |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 542 | will now display a message if only occurrence of a given |
| 543 | search exists. |
Chris Allegretta | 05f4065 | 2002-01-23 02:37:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 544 | For bugfixes, there are fixes for spelling, |
| 545 | stray newlines in the usage() function, suspend issues |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 546 | with tcsh, auto-indent and wrapping clashes, ugly code |
Chris Allegretta | 05f4065 | 2002-01-23 02:37:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 547 | in rcfile.c, global variable compatibility with AIX. |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 548 | There are also oodles of translation updates. Have fun |
| 549 | with it. |
Chris Allegretta | 05f4065 | 2002-01-23 02:37:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 550 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 551 | 01/05/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.5 is out. The main new feature in this |
| 552 | release is the changed behavior of the keypad. Nano now |
Chris Allegretta | bdea41e | 2002-01-05 18:54:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 553 | does the Right Thing and used keypad() by default. If |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 554 | you wish to use the keypad arrow keys in certain |
| 555 | terminals, you may use the -K or --keypad flag to use |
| 556 | the old behavior. Users of other OSes should see better |
| 557 | handling of their non-keypad keys in this release. Other |
| 558 | changes include more Hurd fixes, fixes parsing the |
| 559 | .nanorc, display fixes for the color syntax |
Chris Allegretta | bdea41e | 2002-01-05 18:54:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 560 | highlighting, gettext stabilization and many translation |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 561 | updates. This is almost like a stable release, much |
| 562 | like in the 0.9.x series when every other release was |
| 563 | the most stable one :) Have fun! |
| 564 | |
| 565 | 12/11/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.4 is released. This release contains |
Chris Allegretta | 7bf2509 | 2001-12-12 02:44:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 566 | rudimentary color syntax support (but it's still |
| 567 | broken), compatibility fixes for the Hurd and FreeBSD, |
| 568 | spell checker and wrapping fixes, and more. It seems |
| 569 | that the amount of interest in the code is inversely |
| 570 | proportional to the amount of time since last release, |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 571 | so it's time to show the world all the changes since |
Chris Allegretta | 7bf2509 | 2001-12-12 02:44:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 572 | 1.1.3 ;) Have fun with it! |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 573 | |
| 574 | 10/26/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.3 is released. As far as new features go, |
| 575 | the help system is now available for all functions in |
| 576 | the editor. Also, nano will also now print a message on |
| 577 | the status bar when it automatically converts a file |
| 578 | from Mac or DOS format, and trying to load a file that |
| 579 | has already been loaded in multibuffer mode will now |
| 580 | also cause an error message. There is now a "goto |
| 581 | previous word" which you can use by hitting Meta-Space |
| 582 | Bar. |
| 583 | As for fixes, a SEVERE bug in the null_at code |
| 584 | which discarded the memory address of reallocated memory |
| 585 | has been fixed. This is probably the biggest bug fix in |
| 586 | well over the last year of development. There are also |
| 587 | some display fixes for when the screen shouldn't center |
| 588 | itself on cut or uncut text. Also, the comments in the |
| 589 | header files incorrectly said that nano was distributed |
| 590 | under version 1 of the GPL when the accompanying license |
| 591 | was the GPLv2. |
Chris Allegretta | dc57bba | 2001-10-26 16:14:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 592 | If you're using nano-1.1, it is highly |
Chris Allegretta | d46f544 | 2003-01-17 21:47:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 593 | recommended you upgrade to this release. If using 1.0, |
Chris Allegretta | dc57bba | 2001-10-26 16:14:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 594 | wait for version 1.0.6 which should be available early |
| 595 | next week. Enjoy! |
| 596 | |
Chris Allegretta | 03260b4 | 2001-10-04 01:24:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 597 | 10/03/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.2 is out there. Many new features in this |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 598 | release, including support for auto-converting from DOS |
| 599 | and Mac formatted files, as well as toggles for writing |
| 600 | out files in these formats. Pico's -o flag has been |
| 601 | implemented, as has some new smooth scrolling code |
| 602 | (which can be used in place of the default jerky |
| 603 | scrolling behavior). Also, there is now a "find |
| 604 | matching bracket/brace/etc" feature (Meta-]). The |
| 605 | .nanorc file now accepts setting the tabsize, and the |
| 606 | help text at the bottom of the editor is now better |
| 607 | spaced out in the search/replace prompts. There are |
| 608 | also the usual helping of bugfixes, translation updates |
| 609 | and, surely a bug or two. You better get ready! |
Chris Allegretta | 03260b4 | 2001-10-04 01:24:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 610 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 611 | 07/28/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.1 is released. Our second 1.1 unstable |
| 612 | release features many bugfixes from the initial release, |
| 613 | in particular fixes for the multibuffer code, and |
| 614 | various compiler macro fixes. The shortcut lists for |
Chris Allegretta | 0e8c8d8 | 2001-07-29 01:16:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 615 | the search and replace prompts are a little more logical |
| 616 | (with cancel the last option again), and the included |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 617 | gettext was re-downgraded to 0.10.35 due to problems on |
| 618 | the PPC platform. GNU nano now includes its own aclocal |
| 619 | macros in the m4/ directory to allow rebuilding the |
| 620 | configure script to work on platforms regardless of |
Chris Allegretta | 0e8c8d8 | 2001-07-29 01:16:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 621 | their gettext version. |
| 622 | |
Chris Allegretta | 9a74860 | 2001-07-15 16:07:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 623 | 07/15/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.0 is released. This is the first release |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 624 | in the 1.1.x unstable series of GNU nano. It |
| 625 | incorporates all changes up to the 1.0.3 release, and |
| 626 | also includes many many new features, including |
| 627 | appending to as well as overwriting files, writing |
| 628 | marked text to a separate file, dynamic wrap length, |
| 629 | lots more compatibility with Pico, and new optional |
| 630 | features like .nanorc file support and multiple file |
| 631 | buffers! All in all, plenty of new stuff that's sure to |
| 632 | introduce lots of bugs ;-) Have fun with it, but be |
| 633 | careful, unstable means unstable. |
Chris Allegretta | 9a74860 | 2001-07-15 16:07:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 634 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 6c6d2bc | 2006-11-08 18:03:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 635 | 07/01/2001 - GNU nano 1.0.3 is the "mutt" release. This release |
| 636 | features oodles of bug fixes with cutting text, |
| 637 | especially with the -k (cut to end) option. There is |
| 638 | also a new suspend handler which should make nano play |
| 639 | better with mutt (the code for which came from mutt |
| 640 | itself; many many thanks to Jordi Mallach and Tom Lear |
| 641 | for working late into the night fixing this). Nano now |
| 642 | also features mutt's case insensitive string compare |
| 643 | function for more speed and less memory usage. Two new |
| 644 | translations are included, Ukrainian and Russian. |
| 645 | |
| 646 | 05/12/2001 - GNU nano 1.0.2 is the "just the bugfixes ma'am" release. |
| 647 | The most noticeable fixes are for display errors using |
| 648 | page up/down with the marker code, and view mode (-v) |
| 649 | not stopping the replace function. Other fixes include |
| 650 | being able to use the arrow keys while holding down the |
| 651 | ctrl key in certain TERMs, and there are many |
| 652 | documentation updates and spelling tweaks. We also have |
| 653 | a new Galician translation (provided by Jacobo TarrÃo). |
| 654 | Have fun with it! |
| 655 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 656 | 04/06/2001 - GNU nano 1.0.1 is out there. The only new feature is a |
| 657 | configure option for those who want to disable all word |
| 658 | wrapping from nano, --disable-wrapping. Bug fixes this |
| 659 | release include some bugs with autoconf and i18n, and |
| 660 | several fixes in the file browser including a segfault |
| 661 | on Solaris, symlinks to directories now work properly, |
| 662 | and nano now sorts files case insensitively like Pilot. |
| 663 | Have fun with it. |
Chris Allegretta | 38068cd | 2001-04-06 20:04:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 664 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 665 | 03/22/2001 - GNU Nano 1.0 is released! The autoindent wrapping bug |
Chris Allegretta | 4aa302f | 2001-03-18 18:50:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 666 | has been fixed, as well as strange bug when using Pico |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 667 | mode and regex search. There have also been some minor |
Chris Allegretta | 4aa302f | 2001-03-18 18:50:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 668 | spelling and documentation updates. As stated on the |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 669 | website, there are currently no known bugs with nano, |
| 670 | but some will pop up eventually and they will be |
| 671 | addressed in subsequent releases. We hope you enjoy |
| 672 | this first stable release of nano, and as always, |
| 673 | feedback is welcome! nano@nano-editor.org. |
Chris Allegretta | 4aa302f | 2001-03-18 18:50:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 674 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 675 | 02/19/2001 - Nano 0.9.99pre3 brings a lot of changes! The most |
| 676 | important being that nano is now officially a GNU |
| 677 | program. Some changes have been made for GNU |
| 678 | compatibility (like the default list of shortcuts, "^G |
| 679 | Get Help" is now Listed and "^_ Goto Line" is not). The |
| 680 | Yes/No/All keys have finally been internationalized |
| 681 | also. All in all, quite a few changes, considering nano |
| 682 | is supposed to be in a code freeze. But there are the |
| 683 | usual helping of bugfixes, a nasty bug when cutting text |
| 684 | in -k mode and some compatibility issues with older |
| 685 | ncurses libraries have also been fixed. All in all, a |
| 686 | lot to see. |
Chris Allegretta | f4a9864 | 2001-02-19 05:28:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 687 | |
Chris Allegretta | 90e0404 | 2001-01-31 18:01:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 688 | 01/31/2001 - Nano 0.9.99pre2 is released. Not surprisingly, all that is |
| 689 | new is bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes. There were a few |
| 690 | cleanups in unneeded global variables and duplicate |
| 691 | functions, but most is just fixing. Specifically, there |
| 692 | is now a preliminary (read: needs testing) fix for |
| 693 | resizing the editor in any mode other than normal edit |
| 694 | mode. Other fixes include some more tab completion |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 695 | segfaults, and an silly segfault that occurred when |
David Lawrence Ramsey | b159f94 | 2006-07-28 17:06:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 696 | successfully writing a file on the 2nd try (i.e. after |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 697 | an initial write error). Slowly but surely, on toward |
| 698 | 1.0 we travel. |
Chris Allegretta | 90e0404 | 2001-01-31 18:01:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 699 | |
Chris Allegretta | 9d6f3f3 | 2001-01-21 02:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 700 | 01/17/2001 - Nano 0.9.99pre1 is released. This is the first pre-1.0 |
Chris Allegretta | 9faa3f1 | 2001-01-18 04:37:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 701 | release of nano, and is also the first release since the |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 702 | code freeze for nano 1.0. Don't expect (or request) any |
Chris Allegretta | 9faa3f1 | 2001-01-18 04:37:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 703 | new features between now and nano 1.0, only bugfixes, |
| 704 | optimizations and doc/translation updates. For fixes, a |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 705 | nasty segfault when trying to insert one's home |
| 706 | directory (~), some checks for the NumLock key making |
| 707 | the keypad go awry, window size sanity checks, many |
| 708 | autoconf fixes, and support for the KDE konsole keypad |
| 709 | layout. Have fun. |
Chris Allegretta | 9faa3f1 | 2001-01-18 04:37:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 710 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 711 | 01/07/2001 - Nano 0.9.25 is the "Just one more feature I swear!" |
| 712 | release. It includes one new feature that Pico has had |
| 713 | forever, a built-in file browser. Since not everyone |
| 714 | may want this option, there is a --disable-browser |
| 715 | option to the configure script as well. Other changes |
| 716 | include slightly different keypad handling, and a bugfix |
| 717 | for crashes when tab completion in certain instances. |
| 718 | Have fun and Happy New Year! |
Chris Allegretta | 1699144 | 2001-01-07 22:06:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 719 | |
Chris Allegretta | 88520c9 | 2001-05-05 17:45:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 720 | 12/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.24 is released. This version contains the last of |
Chris Allegretta | 66149e7 | 2000-12-19 02:51:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 721 | the security fixes for writing files, as well as for a |
| 722 | nasty segfault when nano is unable to open a file for |
| 723 | reading, among other fixes. Nano also now cowardly |
| 724 | refuses to open device files, to stop silly things like |
| 725 | trying to open /dev/zero. New features include being |
| 726 | Able to use Meta-Meta-<key> as Control-<key>, better |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 727 | HURD support, and some new flags have been added for |
| 728 | Pico compatibility. Upgrading to this version is highly |
Chris Allegretta | 66149e7 | 2000-12-19 02:51:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 729 | recommended. |
| 730 | |
Chris Allegretta | 8816760 | 2000-12-09 00:07:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 731 | 12/08/2000 - Nano 0.9.23 is the "race conditions bite" release. The |
| 732 | main reason for this release is the less-than-optimal |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 733 | fix for the security issue in nano with following |
| 734 | symbolic links. Hopefully this will fix the problem |
| 735 | permanently. The --nofollow option also works again for |
| 736 | those who are real security nuts. There are also some |
| 737 | display and search fixes, and the --disable-spell |
| 738 | function was renamed to --disable-speller to be in line |
| 739 | with nano and Pico's "speller" term. |
Chris Allegretta | 8816760 | 2000-12-09 00:07:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 740 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 741 | 12/02/2000 - Nano 0.9.22 is released, with many more changes and |
Chris Allegretta | ac139dd | 2000-12-02 21:31:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 742 | additions than imaginable. The most important change is |
| 743 | a fix for unsafe handling of symbolic links which could |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 744 | lead to symlink attacks if nano were to exit because of |
| 745 | an error or signal. Also there are better checks when |
Chris Allegretta | ac139dd | 2000-12-02 21:31:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 746 | saving files. |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 747 | As for new features, username tab completion is now |
| 748 | working well, the internal spell checker code has been |
Chris Allegretta | ac139dd | 2000-12-02 21:31:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 749 | tweaked, you can now unjustify if you don't like how the |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 750 | justify formatted your text, and there are more options |
| 751 | for configure, including --disable-spell and |
Chris Allegretta | 9ee2a0d | 2000-12-02 21:50:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 752 | --disable-justify and --enable-extra (for those who like |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 753 | surprises). All in all, a whole lot of changes in a |
| 754 | little over a week. |
Chris Allegretta | ac139dd | 2000-12-02 21:31:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 755 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 756 | 11/23/2000 - Happy Thanksgiving! Nano 0.9.21 is our "last version was |
Chris Allegretta | 71366cd | 2000-11-23 21:04:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 757 | a big turkey" release. It fixes several bugs introduced |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 758 | by the previous version, as well as a few long- standing |
| 759 | display bugs. All 0.9.20 users are strongly encouraged |
| 760 | to upgrade to this release. |
Chris Allegretta | 71366cd | 2000-11-23 21:04:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 761 | |
| 762 | 11/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.20 is finally out the door. Probably the biggest |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 763 | change is the brand new way nano displays previous |
| 764 | search and replace strings (they are now editable!) |
| 765 | This is a break from Pico's (inconsistent) interface, so |
| 766 | if you don't like the new way, "Pico" mode (-p on the |
| 767 | command line or Meta-P within nano) still works the |
| 768 | "old" way. |
Chris Allegretta | 44b52ca | 2000-11-18 16:46:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 769 | Other new features include being able to deal with |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 770 | search strings of any length, a new internal spell |
| 771 | feature (courtesy of Mr. Rocco Corsi) and tab completion |
| 772 | when reading in or writing out files! There's also the |
| 773 | usual billion or so bug fixes. Feedback on this release |
| 774 | is welcome because so much has changed, especially with |
| 775 | the previous string display in search and replace. |
| 776 | Email -> nano@nano-editor.org <-. If you like |
| 777 | something, don't like something, or just want to order a |
| 778 | pizza, let us know! |
Chris Allegretta | 44b52ca | 2000-11-18 16:46:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 779 | |
Chris Allegretta | 07e97d6 | 2000-10-03 01:52:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 780 | 10/02/2000 - Nano 0.9.19 is the "Chris is getting married in less than |
| 781 | a week and needs a distraction" release. There are only |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 782 | a few actual code changes, mainly portability and |
| 783 | compiler warning fixes. Nano now also supports |
| 784 | PDCurses, which enables easily-built nano executables |
| 785 | for Windows NT and 95/98 for the brave. The official |
| 786 | nano site has changed (again) as well, check out |
| 787 | www.nano-editor.org for all the latest nano schtuff. |
Chris Allegretta | 07e97d6 | 2000-10-03 01:52:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 788 | |
Chris Allegretta | 629edad | 2000-09-19 00:27:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 789 | 09/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.18 is unleashed. It has some new keyboard |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 790 | handling code, Cygwin support out of the box, and a more |
| 791 | portable handler for the NOHELP toggle. There is also a |
| 792 | fix for a somewhat serious bug whereby trying to insert |
| 793 | a directory instead of a normal file would destroy the |
| 794 | contents of the editor. A must-see. Four stars. |
Chris Allegretta | 629edad | 2000-09-19 00:27:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 795 | |
Chris Allegretta | 423cbfd | 2000-09-04 16:21:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 796 | 09/04/2000 - Nano 0.9.17, the Labor Day release, is released after a |
| 797 | quiet spell (almost an entire month since last release!) |
| 798 | New features include better (not yet perfect) binary |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 799 | display support and toggle support for most of the |
| 800 | program flags (M-c, M-i, M-z, M-x, M-p, M-w, M-m, M-k |
| 801 | and M-e for -c, -i, -x, -p, -w, -k, and -R). |
Chris Allegretta | 423cbfd | 2000-09-04 16:21:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 802 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 803 | 08/09/2000 - Nano 0.9.16, after some struggling, is released. This |
| 804 | release should fix a few of the holes that 0.9.15 dug. |
| 805 | The "cutting text on the first line" bug is fixed, as is |
| 806 | the "cutting text on the last line" bug. Nice symmetry |
| 807 | there huh? Also the --tabsize argument should now work |
| 808 | as well as by using -T. |
Chris Allegretta | ba96f7a | 2000-08-09 21:38:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 809 | |
Chris Allegretta | 88520c9 | 2001-05-05 17:45:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 810 | 08/03/2000 - Nano 0.9.15 is the "I can't think of a release description" |
Chris Allegretta | 0bf4e14 | 2000-08-04 02:42:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 811 | release. There are the usual gala of display bugfixes, |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 812 | a fix for the the nasty bug in -k mode that could create |
| 813 | a loop in the file being edited, and some other code |
Chris Allegretta | 0bf4e14 | 2000-08-04 02:42:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 814 | cleanup. Also, the -T option should now work regardless |
| 815 | of the curses library used. Yay. |
| 816 | |
Chris Allegretta | a1a55c7 | 2000-07-28 00:36:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 817 | 07/27/2000 - Nano 0.9.14 is officially the "13 is so unlucky it should |
| 818 | be skipped as a version number" release. One typo |
| 819 | caused unending problems (calling nano with either -t or |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 820 | -k caused both flags to be used). The -k code is also |
| 821 | now closer in functionality to Pico's -k mode; please |
| 822 | note that this code is not finished yet. Working on |
| 823 | this code has made me realize that there is not enough |
Chris Allegretta | a1a55c7 | 2000-07-28 00:36:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 824 | abstraction in the code, and I will be working on that |
| 825 | for the next release. Until then, have fun with this |
| 826 | version. |
| 827 | |
Chris Allegretta | edebbe6 | 2000-07-23 16:45:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 828 | 07/23/2000 - Nano 0.9.13 has a few new bits and bobs, most notably the |
Chris Allegretta | 231d3d6 | 2000-07-22 19:33:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 829 | -k option from Pico (cut to end of line). The majority |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 830 | of changes in this release are bugfixes, however, |
| 831 | including the usual display fixes and fixes for writing |
| 832 | to symbolic links and un-writable files. Barring any |
| 833 | other major changes, this should be the feature set for |
| 834 | nano 1.0, whenever it might be released =-) |
Chris Allegretta | 231d3d6 | 2000-07-22 19:33:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 835 | |
Chris Allegretta | e955dae | 2000-07-07 22:24:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 836 | 07/07/2000 - Nano 0.9.12 (The "lucky day" release) is bursting with new |
| 837 | features, bug fixes, and yummy fruit flavor. For |
| 838 | changes, the alternate replace keystroke ^W^T is now |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 839 | ^W^R to be compatible with later versions of Pico. ^W^T |
| 840 | is now goto line, again for Pico compatibility. As for |
| 841 | new features, the wonderful/hated magic line code has |
| 842 | returned with a vengeance! Also, regular expression |
| 843 | searches and replaces have been incorporated via the -R |
| 844 | flag. And, of course, there are the usual helping of |
| 845 | display and other bug fixes to top it all off. |
Chris Allegretta | e955dae | 2000-07-07 22:24:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 846 | |
Chris Allegretta | 4da1fc6 | 2000-06-21 03:00:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 847 | 06/20/2000 - Nano 0.9.11 presents drastic rewrites of the most buggy |
Chris Allegretta | 3798588 | 2000-06-20 00:39:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 848 | routines in the program, specifically the wrapping code |
| 849 | and almost all of the display routines. There are many |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 850 | improvements and bugfixes to the display subsystem in |
Chris Allegretta | 3798588 | 2000-06-20 00:39:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 851 | general, but there may be bugs lurking yet. Also, after |
| 852 | many MANY requests, there is now an option to set the |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 853 | displayed tab width (-T, --tabsize). Note that this |
| 854 | function just changes the way tabs LOOK in the editor, |
| 855 | the tabs you input are still real tabs of normal width |
| 856 | (usually 8 characters); nano just makes them look |
Chris Allegretta | 88520c9 | 2001-05-05 17:45:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 857 | smaller or bigger while in the editor. New in the |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 858 | translation department is an Indonesian translation |
| 859 | (id). |
Chris Allegretta | 3798588 | 2000-06-20 00:39:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 860 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 861 | 06/06/2000 - Nano 0.9.10 is primarily a bugfix for the loss of SIGINT |
| 862 | when using "run and terminate" flags (for example, |
| 863 | --help). There are also some minor documentation |
| 864 | updates. This version of nano is the most stable in |
| 865 | quite some time, and is likely to be the most stable for |
| 866 | awhile. Users are encouraged to upgrade to this |
| 867 | version. |
Chris Allegretta | 2b26e0a | 2000-06-07 04:02:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 868 | |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 869 | 05/31/2000 - Nano 0.9.9 introduces much better working i18n support, |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 870 | more portability, and a ton of bugfixes. While nano is |
| 871 | not likely anywhere near 1.0 in terms of code quality, |
| 872 | it gets a quantum leap closer with this release. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 873 | |
| 874 | 05/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.8 (the 'what broke now?' release) should fix |
| 875 | the resize crash people have been experiencing. It also |
| 876 | offers a new input method that should allow nano to do |
| 877 | things the right way (like ^S, ^Q, custom suspend keys) |
Chris Allegretta | 88520c9 | 2001-05-05 17:45:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 878 | and hopefully won't break with non-US keyboards. There |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 879 | are also the obligatory display fixes and speedups. |
| 880 | Have fun with it. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 881 | |
| 882 | 05/14/2000 - Nano 0.9.7 (the Mother's Day release) continues in the long |
| 883 | line of display fixes, and also fixes the broken symlink |
David Lawrence Ramsey | b159f94 | 2006-07-28 17:06:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 884 | behavior (i.e. symlinks weren't being followed by |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 885 | default). Hopefully all major bugs can be worked out |
| 886 | soon and we can have a 1.0 release before the end of the |
| 887 | year, but who knows. |
| 888 | |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 889 | 05/08/2000 - Nano 0.9.6 cleans up a lot of the display bugs that 0.9.5 |
| 890 | uncovered. There are improvements (and some remaining |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 891 | segfaults) in the wrapping code, and even more display |
| 892 | optimizations. I would still say 0.9.4 or 0.9.2 are the |
| 893 | most stable versions of nano to date, but this one may |
| 894 | not be too bad =-) |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 895 | |
| 896 | 05/01/2000 - Nano 0.9.5 attempts to speed up the display of text |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 897 | to be at least somewhat reasonable. Much code profiling |
| 898 | has been done to reduce the ridiculous number of |
| 899 | redundant display updates. This will probably expose a |
| 900 | lot of bugs that can then be fixed, so this release is |
| 901 | probably not for the faint of heart. For anyone |
| 902 | curious, I would call nano 0.9.2 the most stable version |
| 903 | recently, so use that if you're not particularly |
| 904 | concerned with being on the bleeding edge. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 905 | |
| 906 | 04/25/2000 - Nano 0.9.4 fixes some problems in 0.9.3 with the last |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 907 | line code and related segfaults. It also now has much |
| 908 | better handling for 8-bit characters. The --enable-tiny |
| 909 | code also produces a smaller executable. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 910 | |
| 911 | 04/19/2000 - Nano 0.9.3 is officially the "Micro$oft" release. It |
| 912 | underscores the recent problem of bugfixes introducing |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 913 | more bugs than they fix. The most important change to |
| 914 | this version of nano is the removal of the "magic line". |
| 915 | You will no longer see a blank line at the end of the |
| 916 | file. If you want a new line at the end of your file, |
| 917 | you'll have to hit enter to get one. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 918 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 919 | NOTE: THIS BREAKS COMPATIBILITY WITH PICO. |
| 920 | Unfortunately, this feature has been causing many many |
| 921 | problems with nano so it is being removed for the time |
| 922 | being, and perhaps indefinitely. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 923 | |
Chris Allegretta | 88520c9 | 2001-05-05 17:45:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 924 | Other new stuff includes an --enable-tiny option to make |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 925 | nano ultra small (disabling i18n, detailed help and the |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 926 | marker and mouse code), and --with-slang to use the |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 927 | slang libraries instead of ncurses. |
| 928 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 929 | 04/15/2000 - Nano 0.9.2 just fixes the serious segfault problem if |
| 930 | nano is invoked any way other than using the absolute |
| 931 | path. The bug was in the new code for checking whether |
Chris Allegretta | 6df90f5 | 2002-07-19 01:08:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 932 | nano is invoked as 'pico'. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 933 | |
| 934 | 04/14/2000 - 0.9.1 has some more Pico compatibility built-in. The |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 935 | option to switch to/from Search and Search/Replace (^T) |
| 936 | is now available, and nano now displays the more |
David Lawrence Ramsey | b159f94 | 2006-07-28 17:06:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 937 | Pico-like shortcut list when invoked as 'pico' (i.e. if |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 938 | 'pico' is a symlink to nano). There is an important |
| 939 | change to the handling of symbolic links as well. Now, |
| 940 | nano does the "correct" thing and automatically writes |
| 941 | to the object of the symlink, rather than replace the |
| 942 | symlink with the updated file. This behavior is still |
| 943 | available with the --nofollow or -l flags. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 944 | Other new things include a fix for the infamous |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 945 | "recursive replace" bug, and more bugfixes in the |
| 946 | wrapping code. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 947 | |
| 948 | 04/07/2000 - Nano 0.9.0 has some updates, new language support and |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 949 | a much better refresh setup (It's still not great, |
| 950 | but...) There should also be more stability editing |
| 951 | long lines, as there was a stupid mistake in the |
| 952 | update_line call. Silly me =) |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 953 | |
| 954 | 03/22/2000 - Nano 0.8.9 is basically just a bugfix release of 0.8.8 |
| 955 | to reflect the current stagnant status of the project. |
| 956 | Most things work, the rest doesn't doesn't work because |
| 957 | (a) I can't fix it or I would have already done so, and |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 958 | (b) the amount of patches I'm receiving right now is |
| 959 | quite negligible. Fortunately, this release marks the |
| 960 | first release since I have acquired ownership of the |
| 961 | nano pages on SourceForge. Here's hoping SF will get us |
| 962 | some more visibility, translators and patches. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 963 | |
| 964 | 03/12/2000 - After a hiatus, I have finally moved (not unpacked though) |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 965 | to my new home into Albany. Thus I should now have more |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 966 | time to work on nano. Nano 0.8.8, the "dear god what |
| 967 | broke this time?" release, incorporates patches for both |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 968 | i18n and many bugfixes. It is VERY likely something |
| 969 | broke this version, and it's likely I didn't even apply |
| 970 | the i18n stuff properly, so *it* may not even work. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 971 | |
| 972 | I would like to announce that I'm going to need |
| 973 | translations soonish, so if you are fluent in other |
Chris Allegretta | 88520c9 | 2001-05-05 17:45:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 974 | languages than English (or even better, if your native |
| 975 | language is not English) and you would like to submit a |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 976 | translation file to me, please feel free to do so. If |
| 977 | you do, I will list your name and email in the AUTHORS |
| 978 | file as the maintainer of the .po file, and from then on |
| 979 | it is yours to take care of and keep up to date. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 980 | |
| 981 | 03/01/2000 - Well, to continue my trend of going back on my previous |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 982 | release's comments, nano 0.8.7 is released. The |
| 983 | crashing behavior was still occurring, and this most |
| 984 | recent fix also fixes some other wrapping problems, so |
| 985 | here you go. There may be another release soon, there |
| 986 | may not be, is that vague enough? =) |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 987 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 988 | 02/25/2000 - More minor bugfixes in 0.8.6, the bizarre behavior at the |
| 989 | end of a page has ceased, thankfully. I'm also moving |
| 990 | next weekend, so don't be shocked if you don't see a new |
| 991 | version of nano next week =-) |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 992 | |
| 993 | 02/11/2000 - Okay, here we go again. Aside from a few minor fixes and |
| 994 | some under-the-hood changes, you won't notice much |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 995 | different in this version of nano. I haven't gotten |
| 996 | much feedback on the help feature, is it simply amazing |
| 997 | or does no one care? Write and let me know! =) |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 998 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 999 | 02/08/2000 - Nano 0.8.3 marks the first time in a long time that there |
| 1000 | has been more than three days since the last release. |
| 1001 | New features include an initial help mode (YAY!), |
| 1002 | hopefully much more support for i18n out of the box, and |
| 1003 | a flag for more Pico compatibility in the shortcut lists |
| 1004 | displayed. This release also marks the new nano |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1005 | distribution site, http://www.asty.org/nano and email |
| 1006 | address nano@asty.org for bugs, etc. |
| 1007 | |
| 1008 | 02/02/2000 - Okay, I hate to go back on what I said in the last release, |
| 1009 | but I may be changing jobs very soon. I will release |
| 1010 | version 0.8.2 as is (no i18n, no help menu (yet). I |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1011 | expect things to settle down by the end of next week, |
| 1012 | and then I can try to start on the i18n support and help |
| 1013 | menu; look for these new features in version 0.8.5 to |
| 1014 | 0.9.0. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1015 | |
| 1016 | 01/28/2000 - Nano 0.8.1 marks our first official step toward |
Chris Allegretta | 88520c9 | 2001-05-05 17:45:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1017 | internationalization (i18n) and the help system (^G). I |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1018 | will be merging in Jordi's patches for initial i18n in |
| 1019 | the next version, and will implement the help system |
| 1020 | with i18n built into it shortly after that. Please |
| 1021 | don't hesitate to send bug reports, as long as you're |
| 1022 | sure the fault lies with nano =-). |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1023 | |
| 1024 | 01/25/2000 - Nano 0.8.0 is officially the 'let's try and be at least a |
| 1025 | little portable, mmmmkay?' release. There are many |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1026 | portability checks and fixes; many thanks to Andy Kahn |
| 1027 | for his patches. I removed the broken do_spell behavior |
| 1028 | with the 'spell' program; for now, we only try to call |
| 1029 | 'ispell' until I write a better method to handle the |
| 1030 | output of the normal 'spell' command. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1031 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1032 | 01/24/2000 - Nano 0.7.9 features many new features. Among them are a |
| 1033 | new autoindent feature (-i, --autoindent), tempfile flag |
| 1034 | like Pico's -t flag (-t, --tempfile), and preliminary |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1035 | spelling program support. The spelling function tries |
| 1036 | to run 'spell' and then 'ispell' in that order, but you |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1037 | can specify another spelling program with -s or |
| 1038 | --speller. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1039 | |
| 1040 | 01/17/00 - Nano 0.7.7 is officially the 'way too much stuff changed this |
| 1041 | release' release. It's the busy time at work for me, so |
| 1042 | please don't get offended if your patch doesn't get |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1043 | included in the next immediate version of nano. I'm |
| 1044 | sure all the changes in this release will cause a few |
| 1045 | bugs, so 0.7.8 will primarily be about fixing those |
| 1046 | bugs. |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1047 | |
Chris Allegretta | 88520c9 | 2001-05-05 17:45:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1048 | Things added this release include resizability (kinda), |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1049 | new -x and -c flags (see nano -h for help), long command |
| 1050 | line flag support, and the usual array of bugfixes. |
| 1051 | |
David Lawrence Ramsey | 9e45a47 | 2004-01-06 17:12:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1052 | 01/15/00 - Nano 0.7.6 is officially the 'lightning' release. It now |
| 1053 | loads large files much faster than previous versions, |
| 1054 | and is even much faster than Pico or vi in some rather |
| 1055 | rudimentary tests. Many thanks to Adam Rogoyski for the |
Chris Allegretta | a2ea193 | 2000-06-06 05:53:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1056 | read_byte patch! |
| 1057 | |
| 1058 | 01/09/00 - As of this version (0.7.4), TIP has officially been renamed |
| 1059 | to nano. The new homepage is at |
| 1060 | http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/astyanax/nano. Please |
| 1061 | update your bookmarks, tell your friends, and all that |
| 1062 | jazz. |
Chris Allegretta | c87a411 | 2000-08-07 02:16:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1063 | |
| 1064 | $Id$ |