nano-8.4

[Douglas R. Reno]

New minor version

[thomas]

Changes between v8.3 and v8.4:

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Benno Schulenberg (40):

• bump version numbers and add a news item for the 8.4 release
• copyright: update the years for the FSF
• docs: add a suggestion to the FAQ on how to configure nano for git
• docs: change two interface colors in the sample nanorc
• docs: improve the description of the constantshow bindable function
• docs: in the FAQ, replace an old item with an item about Byte Order Marks
• docs: replace a word that is better not used in the plural
• docs: use proper emdashes instead of double hyphens: "--" => "\(em"
• execute: retain what the user typed before a tool was invoked
• feedback: warn when the cursor sits on a Byte Order Mark (BOM)
• gnulib: update to its current upstream state
• input: adjust file browser and help viewer for changed bracketed pastes
• input: implement bracketed pastes in a different manner
• input: make bracketed paste more robust against loss of closing sequence
• input: remove a special-case workaround
• input: remove single-keycode detection from the bracketed-paste routine
• input: robustness is good, but dropping a key code is not a good idea
• input: wait a bit for "~" when bracketed-paste sequence is incomplete
• prompt: accept tabs in an external paste as literal tabs
• prompt: beep when an external paste contains a command code
• syntax: groff: highlight the zeroeth macro argument too
• syntax: man: highlight some escapes, like \& and \(em, specially
• syntax: po: colorize also a 'msgctxt' line, and the 'c++-format' flag
• syntax: po: colorize also format specifiers like "%.6f"
• syntax: po: colorize also format specifiers like "%<PRIu64>"
• syntax: po: colorize also Python's "%(name)x" format specifiers
• syntax: po: colorize also the %llu and %hhi format specifiers
• syntax: po: colorize also the Python-specific conversion specifier "%r"
• tweaks: add a translator hint for the three changed file-writing prompts
• tweaks: add missing closing quotes, as reported by mandoc -T lint ...
• tweaks: avoid running tolower() on an out-of-range value
• tweaks: change the man-page markup of options that take an argument
• tweaks: condense a fragment of code
• tweaks: consistently use "\fR" for switching back to normal, roman font
• tweaks: prevent some color keywords from getting hyphenated in man page
• tweaks: prevent some more keywords from getting hyphenated
• tweaks: remove an unwanted newline from a debugging message
• tweaks: remove three redundant pairs of parentheses from a nanorc regex
• tweaks: remove two commented-out lines and two unused variables
• tweaks: swap two fragments of code, to allow unwrapping a line

Brand Huntsman (1):

• files: improve the wording of the normal file-writing prompts

[thomas]

Fixed in [4a1adad7c1]