[Info-nano] [ANNOUNCE] nano-6.1 is released

[Benno Schulenberg]

2022.02.09 - GNU nano 6.1  "Rețelele de socializare sunt ca un frigider"

• The behavior of ^K at a prompt has been enhanced: when there is
  text after the cursor, just this text is erased.  (In the usual
  situation, however, when the cursor is at the end of the answer,
  the behavior is as before: the whole answer is erased.)
• At a prompt, M-6 copies the current answer into the cutbuffer.
• Large external pastes into nano are handled more quickly.


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

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/v6/nano-6.1.tar.xz
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/v6/nano-6.1.tar.xz.asc


Specific issues that were addressed in this release:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61702  (answer at prompt could not be copied)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61719  (build failure on Darwin)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61822  (pasting into nano was too slow)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61883  (cancelling an overwrite could exit)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61962  (spotlight could be wrong after macro)


Changes between v6.0 and v6.1:
------------------------------

Benno Schulenberg (38):
      build: fix compilation when configured with --enable-tiny
      build: prevent autopoint from overwriting a newer M4 file from gnulib
      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 6.1 release
      copyright: update the last year for significantly changed files
      copyright: update the years for the FSF
      docs: mention bindable function 'zero', for toggling the interface bars
      docs: mention 'set guidestripe' and 'set unix' in the sample nanorc
      docs: remove obsolete Ctrl+Z from the cheatsheet; mention Alt+X instead
      files: let ^C cancel the exiting when the file on disk was changed
      gnulib: update to its current upstream state
      help: make the description of <Tab> more accurate
      help: update the description of M-D, to match the actual order of counts
      input: instead of moving waiting keycodes, just increment a pointer
      input: suppress any spotlighting when there are more keycodes waiting
      menus: don't show M-6 in the help lines of any prompt
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      prompt: allow the user to copy the answer to the cutbuffer (with M-6)
      prompt: let ^K erase text after cursor (if any), otherwise whole answer
      tweaks: add some feedback to the autogen.sh script, to ease the wait
      tweaks: add some small, clarifying comments
      tweaks: adjust a translator hint, to fit the order in the POT file
      tweaks: drop foreign M-U and M-R from among the sample CUA bindings
      tweaks: remove a redundant check -- add a different one for symmetry
      tweaks: remove two redundant checks
      tweaks: rename a function and its two parameters, for clarity
      tweaks: rename a function and reshuffle its call
      tweaks: rename a function, to not contain the name of a variable
      tweaks: rename another variable, to better fit in with its sisters
      tweaks: rename a variable and a parameter, to be more descriptive
      tweaks: rename a variable, away from an abbreviation
      tweaks: rename a variable, for clarity and contrast
      tweaks: rename a variable, to make it clearer it refers to a window
      tweaks: rename two variables, and elide a near-enough duplicate
      tweaks: reshuffle some sample bindings, to group them differently
      tweaks: reword two comments, and rename a variable (away from an abbrev)
      tweaks: stop asking the terminal for its new size -- let ncurses do it
      tweaks: use some symbolic names instead of unclear numeric values
      tweaks: when discarding keycodes, don't bother parsing them

-- 

Benno

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