[Info-nano] [ANNOUNCE] nano-2.9.7 is released

[Benno Schulenberg]

2018.05.15 - GNU nano 2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option '--afterends'
             for making Ctrl+Right (the nextword function) stop at word
             ends instead of beginnings, accepts multibyte letters for
             the Yes/No/All answers, does emergency saves of changed
             buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes, adds the
             until-now missing bindable function 'linenumbers', and
             renames the toggles 'constupdate' to 'constantshow' and
             'cuttoend' to 'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the
             corresponding options -- adjust your nanorc files soon.


GNU nano is a simple and easy-to-use editor for on the terminal.
  https://nano-editor.org/

The tarball and its signature are here:
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-2.9.7.tar.xz
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-2.9.7.tar.xz.asc


Specific bugs fixed in this release were all minor:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53777  (wrong message when spell is missing)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53779  (better hint when reading from stdin)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53891  (spurious message in flat terminal)


Changes between v2.9.6 and v2.9.7:
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Mark-Weston (1):
      new feature: an option to make the 'nextword' function stop at word ends

Devin Hussey (1):
      signals: upon a crash, save changed buffers and reset terminal state

Benno Schulenberg (22):
      bindings: add the 'linenumbers' bindable function
      bindings: rename constupdate to constantshow, cuttoend to cutfromcursor
      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.7 release
      docs: add notes about deprecated options and function names
      docs: break down some old improvements further per version
      docs: note a small difference with Pico in the default hard-wrapping
      docs: say thanks to three recent translators, and re-sort two others
      docs: slightly improve the description of the file browser in the manual
      main: clear a spurious error number, to avoid irrelevant messages later
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      prompt: when asking for Yes/No/All, recognize also UTF-8 letters
      scrolling: only do a scroll when the edit window has more than one row
      signals: don't trap segfault/abort when envvar NANO_NOCATCH is defined
      signals: exclude the crash handler from the tiny version
      startup: suggest using ^D to finish reading from standard input
      tweaks: improve a couple of comments
      tweaks: normalize indentation and whitespace after previous changes
      tweaks: put check for -h and -l options in their alphabetical positions
      tweaks: put Yes/No/All in a consistent order (for the translators)
      tweaks: rename two variables, to be more descriptive
      tweaks: sort an option better, and reschedule a removal
      tweaks: use symbolic names instead of puzzling TRUE and FALSE

-- 

Benno

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