Software Update: GNU nano 4.9.2

GNU nano is a text editor for Linux and Unix systems, and runs on the command line. Therefore, it does not require a graphical desktop. It offers syntax coloring, search and replace options, word completion, and automatic backups for changed files, among other things. The development team has released version 4.9.2 with the following announcement:

GNU nano 4.9.2 “Mali Losinj”
Another bug introduced in version 4.9 is fixed: a likely crash after undoing an

GNU nano 4.9.1 “Juice Flap”
Two bugs introduced in version 4.9 are fixed: the cursor getting misplaced when undoing line cuts, and filtering of the whole buffer to a new buffer not working.

GNU nano 4.9 “die fetten Jahre sind vorbei”

• When justifying a selection, the new paragraph and the succeeding one get the appropriate first-line indent.
• Trying to justify an empty selection does not crash.
• Redoing the insertion of an empty file does not crash.
• On the BSDs and macOS, ^H has become rebindable again (in most terminal emulators, not on the console).
• DOS line endings in nanorc files are accepted.
• Option –suspend / ‘set suspend’ has been renamed to the more logical –suspendable / ‘set suspendable’.

GNU nano 4.8 “Jaska”

• When something is pasted into nano, auto-indentation is suppressed, and the paste can be undone as a whole with a single MU.
• When a lock file is encountered during startup, pressing ^C/Cancel quits nano. (Pressing ‘No’ just skips the file and continues.)
• Shift+Meta+letter key combos can be bound with ‘bind Sh-M-letter’. Making any such binding dismisses the default behavior of ignoring Shift for all Meta+letter keystrokes.
• The configuration option –with-slang (to be avoided when possible) can now be used only together with –enable-tiny.
• A custom nanorc file can be specified on the command line, with -f filename or –rcfile=filename.

GNU nano 4.7 “hawkweed”

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• Two indentations (any mix of tabs and spaces) are considered the same when they look the same (that is: indent to the same level).
• When using –breaklonglines or ^J, a line will never be broken in its leading whitespace or quoting.
• The keywords in nanorc files must be in lowercase.

GNU nano 4.6 “And don’t you eat that yellow snow”

• The ‘formatter’ command has returned, bound by default to MF. It allows running a syntax-specific command on the contents of the buffer.
• ^T will try to run ‘hunspell’ before ‘spell’, because it checks spelling for the locale’s language and understands UTF-8.
• Multiple errors or warnings on startup will no longer slow nano down but will be indicated on the status bar with trailing dots.