[Info-nano] [ANNOUNCE] nano-6.3 is released

[Benno Schulenberg]

2022.04.28 - GNU nano 6.3  "Wat zullen we drinken? Wat een dorst!"

• For multiline regexes, text is now colored as soon a start match
  is found, also when there is no end match at all.
• The colorizing of any line is stopped after two thousand bytes,
  to avoid frustrating delays.
• When environment variable NO_COLOR is set, the two default colors
  (yellow for the spotlight, red for error messages) are suppressed
  when no interface colors are specified in a nanorc file.
• Full justification and piping the whole buffer through a command
  now keep the cursor at the same line number.
• Utility 'xsel' can be used to copy a marked region to the system's
  clipboard.  See doc/sample.nanorc for an example.


GNU nano is a simple and easy-to-use editor for on the terminal.
  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-6.3.tar.xz
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/v6/nano-6.3.tar.xz.asc


Specific issues that were addressed in this release:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57248  (let piping keep cursor position [wish])
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60041  (some edits could still miscolor things)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61175  (let full-justify keep position [wish])
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61799  (coloring extreme lines could take ages)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62056  (drawing of huge XML file was too slow)

  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62107  (piping an empty buffer crashed)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62244  (an unintended file could be opened)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62276  (piping to xsel hung until typing ^C)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62285  (with --zero, cursor could be misplaced)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62341  (undoing formatting moved the cursor)


Changes between v6.2 and v6.3:
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Mike Frysinger (1):
      general: fix building for Windows

Benno Schulenberg (42):
      build: add the --disable-maintainer-mode option to ./configure
      build: fix compilation for --enable-{tiny,nanorc,color}
      build: fix compilation when configured with --disable-color
      build: remove an obsolete check -- the dependent code was deleted
      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 6.3 release
      display: suppress spotlight yellow and error red when NO_COLOR is set
      docs: add an example binding for copying text to the system clipboard
      execute: clear an anchor only when the whole buffer gets filtered
      execute: don't crash when an empty buffer is piped through a command
      execute: stay on the same line number when filtering the whole buffer
      feedback: show extra warning when writing failed due to "No space left"
      files: do not change to a higher directory when the working one is gone
      files: show a warning when the working directory is gone (when used)
      files: when the working directory exists, still check its accessibility
      filtering: close all output descriptors, so that 'xsel' will terminate
      formatting: change cursor position only after saving it in the undo item
      gnulib: pull in the workaround for a build problem on NetBSD
      gnulib: update to its current upstream state
      justify: stay at the same line number when doing a full justification
      painting: colorize text also after an unterminated start match
      painting: look for another start match only after the actual end match
      painting: recalculate the multidata when making large strides or changes
      painting: stop coloring an extremely long line after 2000 bytes
      painting: tighten the check for a lacking end match on a colored line
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      syntax: xml: colorize /> properly, and colorize prolog tags differently
      syntax: xml: colorize user-defined entities differently
      tweaks: avoid a function call when two plain assignments will do
      tweaks: change the indentation of a list, to match other indentations
      tweaks: don't leave an orphaned temporary file behind when writing fails
      tweaks: elide an unneeded call of strlen()
      tweaks: exclude the extra truncation warning from the tiny version
      tweaks: make the triggering of the recalculation of multidata less eager
      tweaks: move the saving and restoring of flags to where it is needed
      tweaks: normalize the indentation after the previous change
      tweaks: prevent the adding of an unwanted newline in a different way
      tweaks: remove redundant braces, and add two translator hints
      tweaks: remove some stray spaces before a comma
      tweaks: simplify a bit of code, eliding two labels and three gotos
      tweaks: simplify a fragment of code, and fold two lines together
      tweaks: trim a few comments, rename a function, and reshuffle some code
      verbatim: with --zero, keep cursor in viewport when it was on bottom row

-- 

Benno

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