ChangeLog

Changes between v2.7.4 and v2.7.5:
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Benno Schulenberg (65):
      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.7.5 release
      files: leave out the confusing "[from ./]" when prompting for a command
      general: stop the spell checker from crashing after the changes in search
      justify: reduce the character count when trimming trailing spaces
      painting: account for index maybe being zero after the preceding change
      painting: advance only when both start /and/ end match are zero-length
      painting: do not bluntly ignore zero-length start matches -- handle them
      painting: do not let a match for 'end' overlap a match for 'start'
      painting: don't look at the current multidata when coloring a line
      painting: make use of the multidata of the preceding line
      painting: mark an unpaired start match as CWOULDBE
      painting: properly detect a change in start/end matches
      painting: properly look for a new start match only after the end match
      painting: stay within the line when skipping zero-length matches
      painting: when skipping a zero-length match, skip a character, not a byte
      rcfile: don't accept empty regexes for syntax coloring
      replacing: compensate cursor position only for replacements /before/ it
      replacing: detect when the whole region has already been covered
      replacing: don't go outside of the selected region
      replacing: ignore the first match when the user said no
      replacing: start at the region's edge instead of one step before it
      replacing: stop searching in a region when edge of buffer is reached
      screen: don't compare a character index with a column position
      screen: ehm... no, that was wrong: page_start /is/ a column position
      search: begin from where we are, to be able to find the first \B
      search: make the \b and \B anchors work correctly in both directions
      spelling: correctly adjust the length of a single-line region
      spelling: don't unnecessarily fiddle with the viewport
      startup: report an error when the given line or column number is invalid
      statusbar: display at most three consecutive alert messages
      tweaks: adjust some comments, reshuffle a line, and use a while loop
      tweaks: adjust two comments, to be more accurate
      tweaks: adjust whitespace after preceding changes
      tweaks: and rename another variable, to keep in style
      tweaks: chuck some obscuring debugging stuff
      tweaks: condense a comment, rename a variable, and use a while loop
      tweaks: differentiate single-regex matches from paired-regex matches
      tweaks: discard the now unused multidata-resetting routine
      tweaks: elide a variable plus its corresponding dark logic
      tweaks: fiddle with some wordings in the texinfo document
      tweaks: free an option string also when it was invalid
      tweaks: move a comment and rewrap a line
      tweaks: normalize some paragraph formatting in the FAQ
      tweaks: rearrange some code to separate softwrap and normal mode more
      tweaks: rename a function, and drop an unneeded parameter
      tweaks: rename a function, to show it refers to screen rows
      tweaks: rename another variable, to be shorter
      tweaks: rename a variable and condense an if
      tweaks: rename a variable -- lines refers to buffer, rows to screen
      tweaks: rename a variable, to be more general
      tweaks: rename a variable, to be more general and match one elsewhere
      tweaks: rename some variables, to better distinguish rows from lines
      tweaks: rename some variables, to show they refer to screen rows
      tweaks: rename two variables, and always pass a valid result back
      tweaks: rename two variables, to avoid double negatives
      tweaks: reshuffle an assignment and trim some comments
      tweaks: reshuffle a test to a better place
      tweaks: reshuffle three variables
      tweaks: scrap a bunch of debugging lines -- they obscure the logic
      tweaks: scrap some debugging stuff
      tweaks: slightly speed up the change detection for multiline matches
      tweaks: swap two blocks of code to reduce the number of #ifdefs
      tweaks: update some copyright years
      tweaks: use a cheaper way to detect an end-of-line
      tweaks: use a subtraction instead of a counter

David Lawrence Ramsey (16):
      docs: mention the ability to read from stdin
      screen: don't hide two-column characters at left edge in softwrap mode
      tweaks: adjust and correct some comments
      tweaks: always directly do a refresh when the margin changes
      tweaks: do a comparison a bit differently in do_output() and do_deletion()
      tweaks: fix compilation when configured with --enable-tiny
      tweaks: improve comments and formatting in update_line()
      tweaks: let update_line() return the correct value on error
      tweaks: reduce duplicate code in new_magicline() and move_to_filestruct()
      tweaks: rename a variable and adjust some types in edit_scroll()
      tweaks: rename a variable in edit_redraw(), to make sense
      tweaks: rename a variable in edit_scroll(), to make sense
      tweaks: rename mouse_x & mouse_y to mouse_col & mouse_row in do_mouse()
      tweaks: rename the functions for moving to and copying from a buffer
      tweaks: rewrap two lines and fix two typos
      tweaks: split the grafting code off from copy_from_buffer()

Mike Frysinger (3):
      syntax: c++: add override keyword
      syntax: gentoo: flag mixed whitespace
      syntax: gentoo: match .eblit files too


Changes between v2.7.3 and v2.7.4:
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Benno Schulenberg (48):
      build: check for GNU-style word-boundary support also in the tiny version
      build: include the old Changelogs in the tarball
      build: install the Info and Html manuals even when 'makeinfo' is missing
      build: move all documentation into a single directory
      build: move the syntax files out of the doc/ directory
      build: rename the sample config file, so it will be colored like a nanorc
      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.7.4 release
      copy: properly set preferred x position when region was marked backwards
      cut: indicate a buffer as modified only if actually something was deleted
      docs: add a new Changelog -- a list of the short commit messages
      docs: bring some air into the FAQ, so that <Ctrl+Up/Down> become useful
      docs: fix some spellos and trim some trailing tabs in the old Changelog
      docs: rename the Changelogs to indicate which periods they cover
      docs: snip some obsolete items from the FAQ, and normalize its dates
      docs: standardize the dates in the old Changelog
      inserting: adjust the desired x position (don't restore the old one)
      screen: examine the whole line when painting, to set the correct info
      search: make a regex with a beginning-of-word anchor work correctly
      softwrap: don't scroll half a page when just a few lines will do
      softwrap: when pasting an overlong line, ensure it is fully visible
      softwrap: when typing M-/, ensure the last line is fully visible
      syntax: html: be more precise with tags, and paint attribute names
      tweaks: adjust whitespace after the previous change
      tweaks: chuck a couple of useless asserts
      tweaks: condense two ifs to a single one
      tweaks: discard some conditional compilation
      tweaks: don't compare a character offset with a column position
      tweaks: don't use a variable for two different purposes
      tweaks: fix compilation when configured with --disable-wrapping
      tweaks: frob some comments, and transform one variable
      tweaks: frob some comments, elide a variable, and use 'while' loops
      tweaks: if there is no end match, there is nothing to paint
      tweaks: miscellaneous frobbings
      tweaks: rearrange and reindent some lines in the painting routines
      tweaks: remove the cluttering conditional compilation of a parameter
      tweaks: rename another variable, to show it refers to columns not chars
      tweaks: rename a variable, chuck an assert, and frob a comment
      tweaks: rename three painting variables, to be more distinct
      tweaks: rename two variables, for distinguishing characters from columns
      tweaks: rename two variables to be just one as they play the same role
      tweaks: rename two variables, to be more telling
      tweaks: reshuffle a statement to a better place and condense some comments
      tweaks: set the length of a search match in a clearer manner
      tweaks: slightly condense a function and its comment
      tweaks: terminate lots of sentences with a period in the old Changelog
      tweaks: the starting point for painting /cannot/ be offscreen
      tweaks: when allow_tabs is FALSE, allow_files is irrelevant
      undo: properly create separate items for deletes at different positions

David Lawrence Ramsey (7):
      screen: properly place the cursor after inserting a file
      softwrap: ensure the current line is fully visible after inserting a file
      tweaks: avoid an unnecessary fiddling with current_y in do_mouse()
      tweaks: line numbers are ssize_t, not int
      tweaks: move a setting, fix a type, and rearrange a line in do_mouse()
      weeding: remove another unnecessary setting of openfile->current_y
      weeding: remove unnecessary settings of openfile->current_y

Felix Janda (1):
      speller: fix build when tiny build is enabled


Changes between v2.7.2 and v2.7.3:
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Arturo Borrero González (1):
      syntax: nftables: add two new families, and add set references

Benno Schulenberg (62):
      binding: use plain codes instead of function calls for the jumping keys
      binding: use the code for the Enter directly instead of a function call
      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.7.3 release
      chars: optimize for the most common case
      chars: use memory on the stack instead of calling malloc() and free()
      docs: clarify the difference between "Esc Esc ddd" and "M-V xxxxxx"
      files: don't change embedded newlines into nulls in filenames
      files: show newlines in filenames as ^J also in error messages
      general: simplify the detection of a SIGWINCH
      history: avoid crashing when the positionlog file is malformed
      history: don't bother encoding search items -- they cannot contain newlines
      history: encode newlines in filenames as nulls
      history: search for the two position numbers from EOL instead of BOL
      history: search items *can* contain newlines -- encoded NUL bytes
      input: detect again when both Shift and Ctrl are being held on a VT
      input: discard a verbatim 0x0A or 0x00 byte, depending on the mode
      input: don't crash when receiving a KEY_CANCEL
      locking: disable an annoying warning
      memory: don't bother making a snug fit for things that will be freed soon
      oops: forgot to add and amend this to the previous commit
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      prompt: do not treat a leading newline in a filename specially
      prompt: represent newlines as ^J instead of breaking the bar
      screen: display byte value 0x0A in the right places as ^@ or as ^J
      screen: draw new content immediately, to prevent color flashes
      screen: show an embedded newline in filenames as ^J instead of ^@
      text: avoid a crash when a spell-checked line has gotten shorter
      text: discard the undo stack after formatting and after spell checking
      titlebar: always pass a pathname through display_string()
      tweaks: adjust some comments and indentation and ordering
      tweaks: chuck a special case, and reduce the scope of two variables
      tweaks: condense the setting of three flags
      tweaks: conditionalize a function that is not used in the tiny version
      tweaks: delete a bunch of unneeded asserts
      tweaks: don't bother making the next line of an end point NULL
      tweaks: don't bother reallocating a string of which there is only one
      tweaks: don't bother trimming the final newline from a position item
      tweaks: drive closer to the edge
      tweaks: elide a counter and a comparison
      tweaks: elide a function that is called just once
      tweaks: move a setting to a better place -- it needs setting just once
      tweaks: put some prototypes in the proper order, and move a bit of code
      tweaks: remove pointless or obscuring asserts
      tweaks: rename a function to describe what it does
      tweaks: rename a function to something less abbrevy
      tweaks: rename a variable and rewrap two lines
      tweaks: rename a variable to be shorter and clearer
      tweaks: rename five variables, for uniformity with a few others
      tweaks: rename four variables, for density and aptness
      tweaks: rename three variables, for visibility
      tweaks: rename three variables, to be more fitting
      tweaks: rename two variables, for self-documentation
      tweaks: retype, rename, and reshuffle a function
      tweaks: start searching at a better place
      tweaks: use a faster comparison
      tweaks: use a slightly faster comparison
      tweaks: use memory on the stack instead of calling malloc() and free()
      tweaks: write two pieces of conditionalized code like all others
      undo: there are just two forms of deletion: backspacing and deleting
      utils: go on to parse the line number even if the column number is bad
      utils: slightly speed up the calculation of the size of a buffer
      version: properly mention --disable-wordcomp if it was used

David Lawrence Ramsey (2):
      tweaks: adjust the type of two arguments
      tweaks: elide two unneeded variables from line numbering mode


Changes between v2.7.1 and v2.7.2:
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Benno Schulenberg (53):
      binding: allow to rebind the word-completion function, and document it
      binding: always initialize some keycode variables to a standard value
      build: add configure option --disable-wordcomp to disable word completion
      build: clean out the revision.h file, to make 'make distcheck' pass
      bump version numbers and add a news item for 2.7.2
      docs: correct and improve the description of --disable-wrapping
      docs: harmonize the indentation of the README, and tweak some wordings
      docs: mention that a foreground color can be bright
      docs: mention that libncursesw5-dev is needed for building from git
      docs: note Sumedh as the author of the word-completion feature
      docs: tweak some lines in the NEWS file
      files: trying to open a non-existent file will never succeed
      input: add the shifted PageUp and PageDown keycodes produced by VTE
      input: distinguish <Alt+Left> from <Alt+Right> on an rxvt terminal
      input: distinguish <Shift+Home> from <Home> on an rxvt terminal
      mouse: use the correct screen width for calculating the cursor position
      oops: the yesno prompt for replacing does not want a visible cursor
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      prompt: remove two fragments of dead code
      rcfile: actually avoid opening directories and devices
      rcfile: actually don't try to open things that cannot be syntax files
      rcfile: check the vital shortcuts just once, not for every included file
      rcfile: let a 'set fill' reenable hardwrapping
      screen: do a refresh before changing the value of 'focusing'
      screen: don't hide the cursor when --constantshow is used
      screen: don't request an update of the edit window for every yesno prompt
      screen: don't restore the previous menu after a yesno prompt
      screen: remove an unneeded blanking of the statusbar
      screen: switch the cursor back on only in the main loop
      screen: use the correct width to determine whether a softwrap occurred
      spelling: correctly restore the selected region
      startup: activate restricted mode earlier, so --help will reflect it
      syntax: don't leave the number after 'fill' and 'tabsize' in red
      syntax: give the statistics part of a git patch a different color
      tweaks: add a few translator hints
      tweaks: correct the wording of a string
      tweaks: delete some obscuring debugging stuff
      tweaks: factor out a small function
      tweaks: fix compilation when configured with --enable-tiny
      tweaks: get rid of some spurious textual references to edit_refresh()
      tweaks: miscellaneous frobbings and rewrappings
      tweaks: move a cursor-on switch to a more logical place (again)
      tweaks: move a switching on of the cursor to a more logical place
      tweaks: remove a bit of obscuring conditional compilation
      tweaks: remove an annoying conditional compilation of an argument
      tweaks: remove a superfluous cleanup call
      tweaks: remove some cluttering conditional compilation
      tweaks: remove some more annoying conditional compilation
      tweaks: rename two variables to make more sense
      tweaks: replace some unneeded direct calls of edit_refresh()
      tweaks: reshuffle some things in a more linear manner
      tweaks: reshuffle three initializations and trim some comments
      tweaks: use a while loop when the end point is not known in advance

David Lawrence Ramsey (8):
      docs: add info about Slang to README.GIT, and improve info about glib2
      files: give feedback when restricted mode prevents overwriting a file
      general: gettextize three overlooked statusbar messages
      input: make Shift+Alt+Arrow work properly on rxvt and Eterm terminals
      input: properly check the full escape sequences for all keys
      moving: always account for the margin when in line numbering mode
      tweaks: adjust the type of four lockfile variables
      tweaks: conditionalize a bit of softwrap code

Mike Frysinger (3):
      configure: fix ncurses lib symbol checking
      syntax: avoid using black colors
      syntax: gentoo: various updates

Sumedh Pendurkar (1):
      new feature: complete a fragment to a longer word found in the buffer


Changes between v2.7.0 and v2.7.1:
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Benno Schulenberg (71):
      binding: fix some duplicated carets and too restrictive menus
      binding: properly conditionalize the UTF-8 parts
      binding: supply the keycode for most special keys directly
      binding: use arrows instead of words to designate the cursor keys
      browser: add the option showcursor, to place the cursor on the highlight
      build: avoid an annoying warning at configure time
      build: avoid updated PO files being remerged upon every make
      bump version numbers and add a news item for 2.7.1
      docs: add 'linenumbers' and 'numbercolor' to the sample nanorc
      docs: add 'set linenumbers' and '--linenumbers' to the texinfo document
      docs: brush up the TODO list
      docs: mark some rebindable function names as deprecated
      docs: mention the existence of the toggles in the man page
      docs: refresh some info in the FAQ
      docs: remove a reference that was only valid on Debian systems
      files: alert about an unwritable file also in the tiny version
      files: mark a new buffer as modified after inserting command output
      general: add the option -g/--showcursor, to match Pico
      general: include word-jumping and block-jumping into the tiny version
      history: slate the search-history migration for removal
      input: don't return zero when some function is completely unbound
      input: handle the "resize key" in a better way
      input: keep the Ctrl+Arrow keys working when their synonyms are unbound
      moving: adjust the Y position to correspond with the changed X position
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      rcfile: add an option to customize the color of line numbers
      screen: defeat a VTE bug by doing an extra cursor move and update
      screen: keep the help items aligned in more configurations
      screen: keep the help items nicely lined up also in the tiny version
      screen: move the margin determination to the main loop
      screen: refresh when a new magicline is added in line-numbering mode
      screen: repaint the edit window in a single place -- the main loop
      screen: suppress line numbers when the terminal is very narrow
      scrolling: don't put the last line at the bottom when softwrap in on
      scrolling: use a comparison that will work also in softwrap mode
      softwrap: ensure the current line is fully visible when moving in it
      softwrap: initialize 'editwincols' early, for computing the number of wraps
      softwrap: scroll 'enough' whenever it surpasses 'amount'
      softwrap: scroll the current line fully into view when jumping words
      softwrap: scroll when searching lands on an overlong bottom line
      startup: allow to rebind the RegExp toggle also in the tiny version
      startup: always initialize 'margin' and 'editwincols'
      syntax: make the contents of the X-Bugs field in a PO file stand out
      syntax: show another deprecated keyword (replace2) in red
      syntax: show deprecated keywords in red, and 'wordchars' in green
      tweaks: adjust some comments and reduce the scope of some variables
      tweaks: adjust some indentation
      tweaks: adjust some whitespace and a comment
      tweaks: compile two parameters unconditionally
      tweaks: don't bother redrawing some lines when whole screen will be redrawn
      tweaks: don't spread a statement over multiple lines unnecessarily
      tweaks: elide an unneeded variable
      tweaks: elide a parameter that is always FALSE
      tweaks: fix compilation when configured with --enable-tiny
      tweaks: frob a few comments
      tweaks: make several small adjustments to the documentation
      tweaks: make tiny nano a teeny bit smaller
      tweaks: move a variable that doesn't need to be global
      tweaks: preen some comments, and reshuffle a few ifdefs
      tweaks: remove a band-aid condition that is no longer needed
      tweaks: remove a bit of duplication
      tweaks: remove a superfluous blanking of the statusbar
      tweaks: remove a superfluous setting, and add a comment
      tweaks: remove a useless cursor movement
      tweaks: rename a function to better describe what it does
      tweaks: rename a variable, for consistency
      tweaks: reshuffle a couple of items
      tweaks: reshuffle an if statement
      tweaks: reshuffle some ifdefs, for less fragmentation
      tweaks: stop compiling the whole_word_only parameter conditionally
      tweaks: use hard-baked keycodes where possible

Faissal Bensefia (1):
      new feature: the ability to show line numbers before the text

Rishabh Dave (2):
      rcfile: reject key names that are wrong or too long
      rcfile: reject rebindings that have no effect or have side effects


Changes between v2.6.3 and v2.7.0:
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Benno Schulenberg (47):
      AUTHORS: add Mahyar Abbaspour and Mike Scalora for their contributions
      bottombar: only count help items that have a shortcut bound to them
      bump version numbers and add a news item for 2.7.0
      docs: explain how to contribute code
      files: close a lockfile after reading it
      input: ignore the resize "key", to prevent reporting an unbound key
      input: look at the modifier keys only when compiled on Linux
      input: unset a softmark whenever a character is typed
      moving: make PgUp and PgDown functional also in very flat terminals
      new feature: allow text selection by holding Shift with the cursor keys
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      prompt: don't crash when the terminal is less than four columns wide
      prompt: leave always at least the last character of the answer visible
      prompt: mouse clicks that moved the cursor need no further processing
      prompt: recompose the statusbar text whenever the window size changes
      prompt: set up the prepared answer before allowing to change it
      prompt: show a trailing $ when the tail of the answer is offscreen
      prompt: use angular brackets as continuation mark, as Pico does
      prompt: work around a VTE bug by outdancing an ncurses optimization
      restore the GNU marker in nano's name
      screen: continue to function also in a terminal with very few lines
      screen: don't die when the window is narrower than four columns
      screen: retain the placewewant also when using an alternate speller
      startup: don't crash when dying early
      statusbar: leave out the brackets when the message is very long
      tweaks: adjust indentation after previous change
      tweaks: adjust indentation after previous change
      tweaks: adjust some braces and indentations
      tweaks: adjust some comments and remove needless asserts
      tweaks: don't bother avoiding unneeded rewrites of the promptbar
      tweaks: don't bother trimming the prompt again
      tweaks: elide a variable and rename some others
      tweaks: fix compilation when configured with --with-slang
      tweaks: fix compilation with --disable-histories
      tweaks: fix compilation with --enable-tiny again
      tweaks: improve some indentation and reshuffle a few lines
      tweaks: make a call in one place instead of in four different ones
      tweaks: remove an unneeded check, reshuffle some things, add a comment
      tweaks: rename a function and adjust indentation
      tweaks: rename three variables
      tweaks: rename two variables, to make some sense
      tweaks: reshuffle some stuff in a more logical order
      tweaks: reshuffle some things, and remove a misplaced comment
      tweaks: simplify the determination of the number of shown help items
      tweaks: use a separate function to ask ncurses for keycodes
      update the copyright notices
      update the license text to the preferred version


Changes between v2.6.2 and v2.6.3:
----------------------------------

Benno Schulenberg (53):
      bump version numbers and add a news item for 2.6.3
      chars: don't persist when only one of the compared sequences is invalid
      chars: make searching case-insensitively some ten percent faster
      chars: properly compare strings of different lengths
      chars: remove a special case that never occurs
      chars: remove superfluous afterchecks
      chars: straighten out the flow of a loop, so it is easier to follow
      debug: add a timing instrument to the main search routine
      docs: tweak some spacing and spelling
      files: avoid a warning about not being able to write a lockfile
      files: make allowances for 32-bit PIDs
      input: after an Esc, don't discard starter byte of a multibyte sequence
      input: be more strict in recognizing certain escape sequences
      input: don't bother putting a keycode into byte range
      input: don't use a function call when a literal value will do
      input: fix a pasto from eight years ago, from commit e347efb
      input: ingest as verbatim just one control code or one or two escapes
      input: make the Ctrl+Arrow keys work on a Linux console
      locking: remove any lock files when dying
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      screen: don't look at placewewant but at where we actually were and are
      screen: remove redundant redrawings of the entire edit window
      shortcuts: group the setting of key string and keycode into one function
      shortcuts: remove any unnecessary classifying of keys
      spelling: don't abort when a misspelled word isn't found, just note it
      spelling: don't consider digits as word parts, because GNU spell doesn't
      tweaks: add a variable, in preparation for making returning easier
      tweaks: adjust indentation after previous changes
      tweaks: adjust indentation after the previous changes
      tweaks: check earlier on for sufficient length of the sequence
      tweaks: compile a parameter unconditionally
      tweaks: condense three asserts into a single one
      tweaks: consistently use a parameter instead of a struct element
      tweaks: correct one comment, and adjust another
      tweaks: don't bother setting meta_key to false when a key is invalid
      tweaks: don't optimize for a special case -- it is far too seldom
      tweaks: don't use a function call when reference to the variable will do
      tweaks: elide the global variable 'func_key'
      tweaks: move some debugging stuff, and move modified editing keys too
      tweaks: move the modified editing keys again
      tweaks: normalize some indentation
      tweaks: normalize some whitespace and adjust several comments
      tweaks: reduce two comparisons to a single one
      tweaks: remove some unnecessary keycodes from a switch statement
      tweaks: rename a function, and adjust some comments
      tweaks: rename a struct element, to be more fitting
      tweaks: rename three constants, for clarity, and hardcode two others
      tweaks: replace a three-case switch with an if and an else
      tweaks: reshuffle two ifs for a little more speed
      tweaks: restore earlier conditions to prevent superfluous redrawings
      tweaks: return quicker from the key parsing routine
      tweaks: unconditionally compile a couple of parameters
      usage: show that the option --wordchars needs an argument

Rishabh Dave (1):
      shortcuts: zero the value of 'toggle' for keys that are not toggles


Changes between v2.6.1 and v2.6.2:
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Benno Schulenberg (81):
      browser: elide another call of opendir()
      browser: trim all trailing slashes (just in case there are more)
      build: refresh the git description whenever something is recompiled
      build-sys: ignore the revision header file
      bump version numbers and add a news item for 2.6.2
      chars: delete a now-unused function
      chars: don't try to see a character in an empty line
      chars: invalid sequences are not blank, nor text, nor punctuation
      chars: look at bytes in their context, so only valid sequences are accepted
      chars: measure invalid sequences and unassigned codepoints more quickly
      chars: plug a gushing memory leak
      chars: represent the high-bit controls more intelligibly
      chars: speed up the determination whether something is a control character
      chars: speed up two reverse-searching routines a bit
      chars: the representation of a control character is always two bytes
      color: forget about aborting the precalculation for multiline regexes
      color: integrate the hilite attribute into the pair number
      color: push the resets further when start and end match are equal
      color: refresh the screen whenever the active syntax changes
      credits: don't bother blanking the second line nor the help lines
      debug: remove duplicate information
      files: beep whenever writing out a file fails
      input: accept only the four iTerm sequences that actually get handled
      input: add some missing keycodes to the parsing routine
      input: consider only O, o and [ as starters of multi-character sequences
      input: don't crash when the window is resized during verbatim input
      input: don't drop a keystroke on the floor when the terminal resizes
      input: don't drop the first byte when user starts typing during loading
      input: elide an extra buffer for inserting stuff into the text
      input: plug a memory leak
      input: report keystroke M-[ as being unbindable instead of just unbound
      input: treat Ctrl+Alt+key different from Esc followed by Ctrl+key
      moving: don't do an automatic smart home with Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down
      new feature: add the option --wordchars, to set extra word characters
      new feature: functions to jump to previous or following block of text
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      screen: again, look at the bytes in their context
      screen: avoid converting each character twice from multibyte to wide
      screen: avoid looking up the width of whitespace and control codes
      screen: don't check for every character whether there is still enough space
      screen: don't simulate a sigwinch but directly reinitialize the screen
      screen: elide another intermediate buffer for every visible character
      screen: elide the intermediate buffer for every single character
      screen: include a workaround only when compiling against older ncurses
      search: match a beginning-of-line anchor just once per line
      tweaks: adjust a comment for removed definitions
      tweaks: adjust a couple of comments
      tweaks: adjust indentation after the previous change, and edit comments
      tweaks: avoid a runtime error when compiled with -fsanitize=undefined
      tweaks: avoid two compiler warnings
      tweaks: compute the sizes of the subwindows in a more direct manner
      tweaks: correct a comment
      tweaks: delete an element that is always FALSE and never used
      tweaks: don't bother resetting the Unicode code holder
      tweaks: don't call a thing malloc... when it doesn't call malloc()
      tweaks: elide a bit of code duplication
      tweaks: elide a typedef, as it now has just one element
      tweaks: elide two unneeded variables
      tweaks: factor out a common condition
      tweaks: fix compilation with --enable-tiny
      tweaks: fuse two handlings of a delete key, and fix a comment
      tweaks: improve a few comments
      tweaks: improve two comments
      tweaks: move a debug statement to its proper place, and improve aspect
      tweaks: put all the movement functions together
      tweaks: put similar things together
      tweaks: put some case labels closer to their statements
      tweaks: put the case labels (the keycodes) in a more sensible order
      tweaks: rearrange a function in my style, and rename a variable
      tweaks: reduce the scope of two variables
      tweaks: rename another variable, for aptness
      tweaks: rename a variable and a type, to be less confusing
      tweaks: rename a variable to be more accurate
      tweaks: rename a variable, to clarify it refers to columns, not to bytes
      tweaks: rename a variable -- to match others and to be more concise
      tweaks: rename two variables, to match others
      tweaks: shuffle the resetting of a counter to the tail of the routine
      tweaks: straighten out the flow of a loop
      tweaks: trim some comments, and simplify a condition
      tweaks: use mallocstrcpy() instead of strdup(), for a graceful death
      utils: don't bother to check line and column for NULL

David Lawrence Ramsey (1):
      input: provide feedback on the Unicode digits typed so far

Dirkjan Ochtman (1):
      syntax: allow capital letters in Rust struct/trait names

Rishabh Dave (4):
      browser: elide a variable by fusing the uses of 'newpath' and 'path'
      browser: select an inaccessible directory also when tabbed
      tweaks: reduce the number of wattron/wattrof calls
      utils: accept mistypings and common separators between line and column


Changes between v2.6.0 and v2.6.1:
----------------------------------

Benno Schulenberg (20):
      browser: don't use a term that is not explained in the documentation
      bump version numbers and add a news item for 2.6.1
      docs: adjust the description of the verbatim function
      linter: refresh the edit window in order to actually place the cursor
      main: let the main loop restore the main menu, if needed
      moving: allow specifying negative numbers in "Go To Line"
      moving: ignore any number when ^Y or ^V is given
      po: make the linguas script regenerate the POT file
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      tabs: compute the number of required spaces without iterating
      tweaks: add a reporter's name
      tweaks: add a translator hint
      tweaks: elide an impossible case
      tweaks: elide an intermediate copy of some line data
      tweaks: elide an unneeded variable
      tweaks: fix a date and an email address
      tweaks: normalize a type, and rewrap a line
      tweaks: reshuffle two lines and improve two comments
      tweaks: rewrap a bunch of lines and some comments
      tweaks: try to distinguish between keystrokes and characters

Jordi Mallach (2):
      docs: bump pointers to the newest version available
      docs: use https for nano-editor.org, and drop the www

Luke Francl (1):
      syntaxes: add highlighting rules for Rust

Rishabh Dave (1):
      browser: don't seem to enter a directory when it is inaccessible


Changes between v2.5.3 and v2.6.0 since 2016 April 1:
-----------------------------------------------------

Benno Schulenberg (192):
      all: eradicate SVN's $Id$ tags
      backups: take an unlikely condition into account
      browser: add a binding for the refresh function
      browser: after getting a mouse click, don't try any further interpretation
      browser, files: use full path in error message when in confined mode
      browser: fix a memory leak
      browser: keep the highlight in the same spot or column, when possible
      browser: make Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right jump to left and right column
      browser: make the calculation of files-per-line a straightforward one
      browser: provide tab completion also outside of the working directory
      browser: rearrange the search loop to elide two unneeded variables
      browser: show a message when getcwd() fails, instead of just beeping
      browser: show an error message when selecting an inaccessible directory
      browser: use the reselection mechanism also after resizing and after help
      browser: when nothing was found, restore the global search flags
      build-sys: detect a build from git and show its short commit hash
      build-sys: identify a build from git not as one from svn
      build-sys: ignore .patch, .orig and .swp files
      chars: a control character can never be an invalid multibyte sequence
      chars: ensure that files are sorted also when strncasecmp() is strange
      chars: make comparing multibyte strings twice as fast
      chars: the representation of control characters is always two columns wide
      docs: add a list of the important changes since version 2.2.6
      docs: mention that pkg-config is needed when building from git
      docs: rename a file, to be less confusing
      docs: update the version number for the upcoming release
      files: allocate enough space for the prompt when finding a lock file
      files: do not call free on the result of dirname
      files: do not use two variables for two different purposes each
      files: don't reuse a variable that may have been modified by dirname()
      files: fix a memory leak
      files: free all the multidata when a file is saved, then recompute it
      files: handle systems that disallow NULL as first parameter of getcwd
      files: it is fine to "change" the name of a nameless buffer
      files: limit the number of attempts at climbing up the directory tree
      files: make an 'if' more transparent and snip an unneeded condition
      files: miscellaneous tweaks of braces, comments, and variable names
      files: prevent dereferencing a possible (although very unlikely) NULL
      files: prune a message to be less than 76 characters
      files: recompute the multidata only when the applicable syntax changed
      files: remove a redundant condition
      files: remove a superfluous condition, and do not ignore a "No"
      files: remove the special 'quiet' mechanism for not overwriting messages
      files: report an unwritable file in a separate message
      files: rewrap en reindent some lines
      files: tweak the function tail() and rename two variables
      files: upgrade the locking errors, so they will not be overwritten
      files: when opening a buffer, make sure to expand a tilde in its name
      files: when the requested operating directory cannot be set, fail
      files: when writing a lockfile fails, continue loading the file
      help: add an extra blank line to the lists of searching shortcuts
      help: bring some air into the lists of shortcuts, giving the eye a hold
      help: only speak of Control and Meta sequences
      i18n: advise the translators about the maximum length of some strings
      i18n: gather three more translatable strings into the POT file
      input: after an unknown sequence, reenable cursor only when in main menu
      input: distinguish an unknown escape sequence from an unbound key
      input: don't allocate too much, and don't move too many
      input: don't take multiple keystrokes to be a single sequence
      input: give more detailed feedback when an unbound key is struck
      input: properly restore waiting mode, or retain non-waiting mode
      input: simplify a bit of code, reducing a four-case switch to a single if
      input: trim some oververbose comments
      input: write a few ifs more compactly
      inserting: differentiate not finding a file from not finding a string
      inserting: don't bother zero-terminating every single character
      inserting: prune a duplicate variable
      inserting: prune some superfluous settings, and do one differently
      inserting: reshuffle some conditions for a teeny bit more speed
      inserting: strip a carriage return before copying the line
      inserting: treat also the final \r of a Mac file as a newline
      justify: enable cursor display also for the first keystroke afterward
      keyboard: reshuffle some lines to avoid an empty while
      locking: don't try to read more bytes than the buffer can hold
      po: correctly advertise whether new PO files have arrived
      po: delete an obsolete script
      po: regenerated POT file, and updated PO files from TP
      prompt: properly save and restore the x position in the statusbar
      rcfile: disallow 'bind' and 'unbind' in an included file
      rcfile: make an error message equal to another, and more informative
      README.GIT: reformat the text a bit
      remove the GNU marker from nano's name
      replacing: properly detect when we've rereached the starting position
      screen: a full refresh is only needed when softwrap is on
      screen: avoid redrawing a line twice
      screen: catch a window resize also when the keyboard is in nodelay mode
      screen: check for the most frequent character first: a space
      screen: concentrate the setting of placewewant
      screen: displaying the cursor position should not suppress it next time
      screen: don't always set 'edit_refresh_needed' when adjusting edittop
      screen: don't redraw some lines when doing a full refresh anyway
      screen: don't redraw the current line unnecessarily
      screen: elide a variable and serialize some logic for clarity
      screen: fix compilation when configured with --enable-tiny
      screen: improve the conditional placement of a help-line item
      screen: make better use of the available space in the titlebar
      screen: rename a variable, because 'disable' sounds too permanent
      screen: rename 'edit_refresh_needed' to 'refresh_needed'
      screen: when using positionlog, show as much of the file as possible
      scrolling: catch the special case of reading a file from standard input
      scrolling: center the cursor when inserted stuff does not fit on screen
      scrolling: don't scroll too much when having to bridge blank lines
      scrolling: elide a variable, to make clearer that edittop is being moved
      search: avoid saving and restoring placewewant when bracket matching
      search: don't set placewewant when we are just iterating
      search: elide an unneeded function
      search: find, and thus delete, only exact matches from history
      search: fix compilation when configured with --enable-tiny
      searching: don't keep track of current_y, but calculate it at the end
      search: modify a function to take a length as parameter instead of a word
      search: rename a variable and a function, for clarity and contrast
      search: terminate the loop a tiny bit earlier when spell checking
      search: untangle two lines and tweak two comments
      search: when looking for whole words, examine the entire line
      search: when polling the keyboard, consume all waiting keystrokes
      softwrap: adjust for current_x when computing the amount to scroll
      speller: don't proceed when the user aborts the searching
      speller: simplify the calculation of the width of the misspelled word
      spelling: don't partition the file for replacements in a marked region
      spelling: gettextize the next-word message
      spelling: if rereading the file fails, don't destroy the current buffer
      spelling: pass the correct position of the cursor
      spelling: retreat one x position, to not miss the first word
      spelling: separate the fixing of different words with a short pause
      startup: show an error message when argument of --operatingdir is invalid
      statusbar: add a non-beeping message type that does not get overwritten
      statusbar: prevent error messages from overwriting each other
      syntax: don't call getcwd() with a NULL pointer
      tabbing: avoid recalculating the length of the first match every time
      tabbing: don't null-terminate a directory name on the slash but after it
      tabbing: don't refresh the edit window when nothing was printed on it
      tabbing: fix erroneous use of strnlenpt()
      tabbing: make sure to refresh the edit window when returning to it
      tabbing: refresh the edit window in case a previous tab listed names
      tabbing: refresh the window also when Goto-Dir in browser was cancelled
      tabbing: rename four variables, snipping a redundant part
      text: add an undo item before starting to comment or uncomment lines
      text: after undoing or redoing something, unset the mark
      text: remove a pointless setting of an undo element; it is never used
      text: remove a redundant undo element
      text: store the new file size in the undo item also when joining lines
      titlebar: snip two superfluous tests for having enough space
      TODO: tidy up the punctuation
      tweaks: add come comments and rename a variable
      tweaks: adjust a couple of comments
      tweaks: a few last tiny adjustments before release
      tweaks: avoid a warning when configured with --disable-wrapping
      tweaks: do an assignment in a more transparent way
      tweaks: elide an unneeded variable
      tweaks: elide four #ifdefs, improve one comment and unwrap some others
      tweaks: elide unneeded intermediate assignments
      tweaks: fix compilation when configured with --enable-tiny
      tweaks: fix compilation when configured with --enable-tiny --enable-browser
      tweaks: harmonize some indentations, elide an #ifdef, and rewrap a line
      tweaks: harmonize the routine for tabs with the one for spaces
      tweaks: improve a couple of comments
      tweaks: improve a few comments
      tweaks: improve a few comments
      tweaks: make advancing and retreating more symmetrical
      tweaks: make the conditions for statusbar blanking more transparent
      tweaks: more consistently use * instead of [0] when checking for '\0'
      tweaks: normalize some whitespace
      tweaks: normalize some whitespace
      tweaks: put some conditions in a better order: the main one first
      tweaks: rearrange some key reading stuff in a clearer way
      tweaks: reindent and rewrap a few lines, and shorten a comment
      tweaks: remove an unnecessary intermediate assignment
      tweaks: remove a redundant assignment
      tweaks: remove a superfluous call of 'wnoutrefresh'
      tweaks: remove a superfluous condition
      tweaks: remove a superfluous setting of 'refresh_needed'
      tweaks: remove the fiddling with an unrelated setting
      tweaks: remove two redundant assignments
      tweaks: rename a function, and move the sorting there too
      tweaks: rename a variable, because nothing is returned there
      tweaks: rename a variable, for aptness
      tweaks: rename a variable, to indicate better what it contains
      tweaks: rename a variable, to indicate what it contains
      tweaks: rename some variables for contrast
      tweaks: rename some variables to be more readable
      tweaks: rename two more variables
      tweaks: rename two variables, and elide a third
      tweaks: rename two variables, to avoid using a name for different purposes
      tweaks: reshuffle a few things
      tweaks: trim or improve some comments, and rewrap two lines
      tweaks: use an available macro to silence a compiler warning
      undo: start renumbering from the head of the paste, not from its tail
      utils: distinguish between width (columns) and length (bytes)
      utils: provide a failure message for all uses of 'fsfromline'
      utils: rename some variables, to match those in strnlenpt()
      utils: snip a superfluous check for NULL
      version: cover the copyrights that are not assigned to the FSF

Chris Allegretta (2):
      add /intl to gitignore
      rename README.SVN -> README.GIT and take out the branch details

Mike Frysinger (3):
      more svn->git updates
      README.GIT: update a few more points to match current tree
      syntax: changelog: support more bug/issue styles

Mike Scalora (3):
      keyboard: recognize four escape sequences produced by iTerm2
      new feature: comment/uncomment current line or selected lines
      text: keep the file size correct when undoing/redoing a comment/uncomment

Rishabh Dave (2):
      browser: keep the same file selected when the directory contents change
      browser: move all openings and closings of a directory to the same function