nano-8.5

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Changes between v8.4 and v8.5:

• anchor: change the aspect of any anchor to a dagger (†)
• bindings: always bind ^{Q in the WriteOut menu, not only for --saveonexit}
• bindings: do not list ^{L twice (in main help text and help lines)}
• bindings: let ^{L just center the cursor, not cycle it -- let M-% cycle it}
• bindings: lowercase an ASCII character in a locale-proof manner
• build: fix compilation for config with --enable-tiny --enable-histories
• build: fix compilation when configured with --disable-histories
• build: fix compilation when configured with --disable-utf8
• build: swap two linker arguments, to enable compilation on Cygwin
• bump version numbers and add a news item for the 8.5 release
• docs: add a suggested key combo for wiping all anchors to sample nanorc
• docs: in cheatsheet, equalize the spacing in three consecutive blocks
• docs: mention that --positionlog also saves the positions of anchors
• docs: reword the descriptions of --operatingdir and 'set operatingdir'
• feedback: change the appearance of anchors when they will be saved
• feedback: change the level of a certain message, to show it is special
• feedback: report the setting and removing of an anchor just once
• feedback: show in mini bar the presence of an anchor on the cursor line
• feedback: suppress "Jumped to anchor" when line numbers are active
• feedback: suppress "Removed anchor" when the mini bar is hidden
• gnulib: pull in the fix for a cross-compilation failure
• gnulib: update to its current upstream state
• history: always save the last cursor position, also for line=1,column=1
• history: always save the positions of any anchors
• history: reverse the order in the file-positions list, to latest first
• menus: reshuffle an item, to avoid truncating its help-line label
• moving: make cycling (M-%) independent from centering (^L)
• new feature: exit with an error status (2) for ^XQ and ^OQ
• new feature: save and restore anchors when the first line has an anchor
• options: accept --whitespacedisplay and 'set whitespacedisplay'
• syntax: default: show hard spaces with a lightgrey background
• syntaxes: add a license line to files that were created by Mike Frysinger
• syntaxes: use character classes instead of range expressions
• tweaks: avoid using toupper() and tolower() where easily possible
• tweaks: elide an auxiliary variable that is no longer needed
• tweaks: elide the unneeded passing around of three parameters
• tweaks: elide the unneeded use of an auxiliary function
• tweaks: in the browser, implement M-\ and M-/ in a slightly denser way
• tweaks: properly tag some keywords in texi doc, instead of using quotes
• tweaks: random unimportant edits here and there
• tweaks: rename 'use_utf8' to 'using_utf8', and make it a global variable
• tweaks: shorten a URL, and update it to use https
• tweaks: use reallocations, instead of new allocations plus frees
• tweaks: use the correct modifier, to avoid a warning on 32-bit machines
• build: add the 'm4/host-cpu-c-abi.m4' file to .gitignore

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 5515df43de.