[Info-nano] [ANNOUNCE] nano-2.8.7 is released

[Benno Schulenberg]

2017.08.27 - GNU nano 2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are
                wider than the screen, makes indenting + unindenting
                more predictable by retaining relative indentations,
                allows pasting (^U) at a prompt, allows triple quotes
                in Python to not be followed by a character, does not
                scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel, binds
                Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext, and
                fixes some hard-to-describe issues with softwrapping
                and boundary-crossing tabs.  Enjoy.


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-2.8.7.tar.xz
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-2.8.7.tar.xz.asc


Specific bugs that were fixed in this release:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47684  (unindenting was too enthusiastic)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48501  (pasting at the prompt [request])
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51438  (indenting added inconstant width)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51526  (better triple quotes for Python)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51550  (replacing after linting crashed)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51621  (tabs were of inconstant width)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51644  (long line of HTML seemed to hang)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51735  (arrow keys could be rebound)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51743  (inserting at top left caused mess)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51770  (lockup when tab wider than screen)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51776  (failing to scroll with large tabs)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51778  (imprecise movement on some tabs)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51790  (too many line numbers)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51802  (mouse wheel scrolled too much)


Changes between v2.8.6 and v2.8.7:
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Urja Rannikko (1):
      bindings: hard-bind Alt+Left and Alt+Right to buffer switching

Rishabh Dave (1):
      new feature: allow pasting at all input prompts

David Lawrence Ramsey (23):
      browser: allow backward/forward re-searches with Alt+Up/Alt+Down
      display: constrain line numbers on softwrapped lines with sprawling tabs
      display: do show the visible character for a tab when it starts a row
      display: revamp how screen updates are done in the movement code
      moving: redraw not just the new current line but also the prior one
      small addition: allow customizing the color of selected text
      softwrap: correctly move vertically through overwide tabs
      softwrap: don't push a straddling tab to the next chunk
      softwrap: improve left/right navigation across line boundaries
      softwrap: make sure char_len is set when a tab is wider than a chunk
      softwrap: properly update the viewport when adding text at firstcolumn
      text: make indenting add to the beginning of the line
      text: make unindenting remove from the beginning of the line
      tweaks: adjust spacing and wording in sample.nanorc
      tweaks: correct a comment typo and an indentation error
      tweaks: harmonize some prototypes with their functions
      tweaks: remove unneeded parentheses and blank line and braces
      tweaks: replace a misplaced tab with a space
      tweaks: set the target row for smooth scrolling more directly
      tweaks: use charalloc() instead of (char *)nmalloc() * sizeof(char)
      weeding: drop the forreal parameter from place_the_cursor()
      weeding: remove redundant casts of nmalloc()
      weeding: remove the unused be_clever parameter from do_home()/do_end()

Benno Schulenberg (55):
      bindings: hard-bind Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext
      browser: correct the inverted search behavior for Alt+Up/Alt+Down
      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.7 release
      display: catch all cases where the cursor can be pushed offscreen
      display: don't doubly show tabs that cross a chunk boundary
      files: do not silently ignore an invalid backup directory, but die
      files: don't close a file descriptor when opening failed  [coverity scan]
      files: don't try to open a negative file descriptor  [coverity scan]
      gnulib: update to its current upstream state
      linting: don't try to put the cursor at a negative x position
      linting: skip the introductory message produced by 'gcc -fshow-column'
      mouse: one click of the wheel should move three lines, not three pages
      moving: don't push x forward when backward movement lands on a split tab
      moving: get <Up> unstuck when trying to pass over a sprawling tab
      moving: improve retention of the target column somewhat
      moving: the current chunk is always 0 when not in softwrap mode
      moving: use the correct formula for pushing the index forward
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      rcfile: don't leak a shortcut when something goes wrong  [coverity scan]
      softwrap: properly move up and down over tabs that are split over rows
      syntax: c: give labels some color too
      syntax: html: don't bother coloring tags that cross line boundaries
      syntax: python: don't require a character after an opening triple quote
      text: properly unindent lines that consist of only whitespace
      tweaks: a comma does not end a sentence, and is not part of a variable
      tweaks: adjust the indentation after the previous change  (3x)
      tweaks: allow enough space for the Y/N/A characters  [coverity scan]
      tweaks: avoid trying to stat a file that might be NULL  [coverity scan]
      tweaks: close a file also in the error path  [coverity scan]
      tweaks: condense or improve some comments
      tweaks: condense some logic, to elide a variable and a comment
      tweaks: do not leak the indentation when all lines are empty
      tweaks: don't close a descriptor when its stream has already been closed
      tweaks: drop some debugging stuff
      tweaks: drop some debugging stuff, and frob two comments
      tweaks: elide an unneeded pointer
      tweaks: elide the global variable 'full_operating_dir'
      tweaks: fix compilation with --enable-{tiny,help,multibuffer}
      tweaks: group all movement routines in corresponding pairs
      tweaks: keep the const qualifier of the syntax name  [coverity scan]
      tweaks: remove includes that appear to be superfluous
      tweaks: rename a function, to let it make more sense
      tweaks: rename a label, to better match its task
      tweaks: renumber the special key codes, to be in sequence and grouped
      tweaks: reshuffle code and frob comments, to reduce the number of lines
      tweaks: reshuffle some code to harmonize two related functions
      tweaks: reshuffle some declarations and trim a few comments
      tweaks: restore an include that is necessary on some platforms
      tweaks: show "where is next" in the help lines of the file browser
      tweaks: simply set the proper scrolling mode, instead of imitating it
      tweaks: snip a superfluous clearing of the bottom bars after help
      tweaks: sort the includes, so it's a little easier to see what is there
      tweaks: specify more directly in what manner to move the viewport

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Benno