- M-Bsp deletes a word leftward.
- With --indicator a "scrollbar" is shown, indicating position+portion.
- M-Ins places an anchor, M-PgUp/M-PgDn jump to the nearest anchor.
- Toggling help lines (M-X) and Refresh (^L) work nearly everywhere.
- Colors can be modified with the attributes "bold," and/or "italic,".
- Nine new color names: from pink and purple to orange and latte.
- Pasting from outside into nano suppresses auto-indentation.
- Such an external paste can be undone with a single M-U.
- Shift+Meta+letter key combos can be bound with 'bind Sh-M-letter ...'.
- A custom nanorc file may be specified with -f / --rcfile.
Follow the upstream recommendations for packagers and switch to
multi-packages:
devel/gettext -> devel/gettext,-runtime
devel/gettext-tools -> devel/gettext,-tools
(new) devel/gettext,-textstyle
Improvements since 2.9.0:
- A key can be bound to a string -- any mix of text and commands.
- Error messages are shown by default in bright white on red.
- <Tab> and <Shift+Tab> can be used to indent/unindent a marked region.
- Can snip trailing whitespace while typing, with 'set trimblanks'.
- The ability to record and replay a series of keystrokes (a macro).
- Assigned functions to ^S (save file) and ^Q (start backward search).
- Indenting and unindenting have been integrated into the undo system.
- Support for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for the nanorc file, and $XDG_DATA_HOME
for the history files (of search strings and cursor positions).
* new feature: the ability to do softwrapping between words
* fix a handful of rare display glitches
* rename the option 'cut' to 'cutfromcursor'
(please update your nanorc files before 2020).
* Stop installing the HTML-formatted man pages. It's not clear where
the value is for nano specifically, when we can run mandoc -Thtml or
groff -Thtml on any source man page.
