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[Info-nano] [ANNOUNCE] nano-4.2 is released


From: Benno Schulenberg
Subject: [Info-nano] [ANNOUNCE] nano-4.2 is released
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 11:42:17 +0200
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2019.04.24 - GNU nano 4.2  "Tax the rich, pay the teachers"

• The integrated spell checker does not crash when 'spell' is missing.
• Option --breaklonglines works also when --ignorercfiles is used.
• Automatic hard-wrapping is more persistent in pushing words to the
  same overflow line.


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

A concise overview of nano's shortcut keystrokes:
  https://nano-editor.org/cheatsheet.html

The tarball and its signature are here:
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-4.2.tar.xz
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-4.2.tar.xz.asc


Specific bugs that were fixed in this release:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56179  (--break not working with --ignore)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56180  (--trim not removing all tail blanks)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56185  (unneeded addition of tail blank)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56188  (^T crashing when 'spell' is missing)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56189  (improvable prepending behavior)


Changes between v4.1 and v4.2:
------------------------------

Benno Schulenberg (24):
      build: be more specific and avoid committing accidentally changed files
      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 4.2 release
      docs: put the 'set guidestripe' option into its alphabetical position
      options: make --breaklonglines work also when --ignorercfiles is used
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      speller: do not crash by trying to free something that cannot be freed
      tweaks: adjust a few comments and some indentation
      tweaks: condense and improve a handful of comments
      tweaks: declare a function as const and let its allocated string leak
      tweaks: drop an unneeded saving and restoring of a variable
      tweaks: elide an unneeded intermediate variable
      tweaks: elide an unneeded parameter, as the function already assumes it
      tweaks: elide an unneeded variable
      tweaks: exclude a bit more code from a single-buffer build
      tweaks: remove an unneeded condition
      tweaks: remove a redundant, enclosed #ifdef
      tweaks: rename a function, to be distinct and fitting
      tweaks: rename another function, to be distinct and fitting
      tweaks: rename a variable, for a little more meaning
      tweaks: rename a variable, to distinguish it from a browser function
      wrapping: add a missing space only when the remainder will be prepended
      wrapping: compute the width of a succeeding line in the correct manner
      wrapping: improve the persistence of the prepending behavior
      wrapping: trim any trailing blanks when cursor goes to next line

-- 

Benno

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