If the edit window consists of a single row, then the do_up() call has
already brought the desired line into view -- which means that trying
to scroll then (when already on the first line of the file) would fail.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53891.
Letters in other scripts than English often consist of multiple bytes.
When in a UTF-8 locale, correctly gather these bytes from the input and
put them together as the single letter that they are, before comparing
this letter against the translated "Yy", "Nn" and "Aa" strings.
The tiny version contains much less code, so is less likely
to crash. And the users most likely use it for very simple
and short editing jobs, making the chance of a crash still
smaller. So the handler would just be bloat.
When 'afterends' is set and Ctrl+Right or Shift+Ctrl+Right is pressed,
nano will stop at the ends of words instead of their beginnings.
Signed-off-by: Mark-Weston <markweston@cock.li>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Upon a segmentation fault or an abort signal, instead of crashing,
losing all changes, and leaving the terminal in curses mode, nano
now calls die(), to save any changed buffers and to restore the
terminal to a usable state.
For the remote chance that nano segfaults in die(), the handler for
SIGSEGV and for SIGABRT is reset to its default value as soon as the
signal fires, to prevent a crash-handler loop.
Since a core dump is usually more helpful for debugging, the crash
handler is not included in a debug build.
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?9623.
Signed-off-by: Devin Hussey <husseydevin@gmail.com>
Also, add a period after the "Read nn lines" message, and
don't let the next shell prompt overwrite this message.
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53779.
This makes the names of these bindable functions equal to the names of
their corresponding options -- like for all the other toggles that have
a corresponding option.
Set the NO_NEWLINES flag to achieve this. And move the saving and
restoring of the global flags to the main speller routine, so the
flags aren't saved and restored for each internal spell fix.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53742.
Acked-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
When the cursor is on the top or bottom line of the edit window, and
an <Up> or <Down> pushes the cursor offscreen, then use edit_scroll()
to bring it back into view, instead of using edit_redraw(), because
the latter would redraw *every row* on the screen, which is a waste
of time.
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53562.
Reported-by: Devin Hussey <husseydevin@gmail.com>
Bug existed since commit 30fc197b (a month ago) which changed the
type of 'i' from int to size_t, causing the comparison to do the
wrong thing when 'threshold' is negative.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53722.
Reported-by: Devin Hussey <husseydevin@gmail.com>
The formatter or linter might have changed in the meantime -- when
the filename was changed to have a different extension, for example.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53716.
When the keyboard buffer is empty, return a value that is not equivalent
to <Ctrl+Space>, so that typing a bunch of these while searching is going
on will not result in some of them getting executed afterward.
Indenting/unindenting always happens in a single contiguous block.
Lines that cannot or should not be indented or unindented do not
need to remembered separately as it follows from their content.
That is, do not fall back to the default background color when the
name for the background color is invalid, but reject the entire
color command, just like for an invalid foreground color.
In the preceding commit, open_buffer() was changed so that it gets
told whether to load into a new buffer or not, so it is no longer
needed to convey this information through a flag.
This fixes a regression introduced by commit 54103d8e: a crash that
can be triggered by running 'nano --restrict' and pressing <Insert>.
This addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1558532.
When the file has just been read, it is in the state that it has
on disk, so there is nothing to undo.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53387.
When the cursor is on the first or last row of the edit window, and
thus Scroll-Down or Scroll-Up would push it offscreen, first move
the cursor away from the edge row and then scroll.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53376.
As, since commit 0e30177d, the scrollup and scrolldown commands
no longer intend to move the cursor, they should not be seen as
movement functions.
Also, it is not guaranteed that functions are ordered in the same
way in the binary as in the source code, so an ordered comparison
of function pointers will not always work.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53333.
When just scrolling and the cursor does not need to change position
(that is: it is not on the first or last row of the edit window),
then edit_scroll() has handled everything and there is no need to
additionally redraw anything or update 'placewewant'.
Instead of keeping the cursor in the same spot on the screen,
let the cursor move with the text (whenever possible).
This makes these functions behave the same as in Vim and Emacs.
Help texts are shown without any line numbers, so the full width
of the screen should be used to display the text.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53308.
First the two that add something (ADD, ENTER), then the three that
delete something (BACK, DEL, JOIN), and then the one that changes
something (REPLACE). Then the SPLITs, CUT, PASTE, and INSERT, and
then the INDENTs and COMMENTs, when they exist.
For cuts, pastes, and inserts, the lines have already been renumbered;
for indents, comments, and replacements, the line numbers cannot have
changed. (And anyway, variable 'f' is not set for those cases.)
Only when lines get split (ENTER) or fused together (JOIN) do the later
lines need to be renumbered. This mirrors what is done for do_redo().
The 'f' variable is used only in the ADD, BACK, DEL, ENTER, JOIN, and
REPLACE undo/redo cases. So, avoid making a somewhat costly call when
it is entirely superfluous. Rearrange the undo types to make checking
for the above six types easier.
This assumes that all movement functions are located together,
starting with to_first_line() and ending with do_right().
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53195.
Reported-by: Brand Huntsman <alpha@qzx.com>
The implant() function itself cannot be bound to anything, so it
is not in the linked list of functions -- trying to find it would
lead to a NULL pointer, and thus to a segfault.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53233.
Instead of always calling sctofunc(), it is now only called when
in view mode OR when (after the keystroke's function has been run)
no need for a refresh has been established yet.
Commit bb667beb removed do_gotolinecolumn_void() from the MWHEREIS
menu (replacing it with the empty flip_goto() function), so there
is no longer any need to check for this one special case.
The slash is easier to read than the underscore (which almost
disappears at the bottom of the screen), and easier to type
(no Shift needed on a US keyboard), and it kind of harmonizes
with the ^\ for Replace and the M-/ for End-of-buffer.
When using --smooth or 'set smooth', the screen should scroll the
minimum amount needed to get the cursor back into view. (The only
exceptions are search, undo, and redo -- when there the cursor goes
offscreen, the cursor line is centered.)
This change brings the behavior of pressing <Enter> on the bottom
row into line with, for example, pasting a single line. See also
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2018-02/msg00027.html.
When 'refresh_needed' is already TRUE, there is no need any more
to check whether it should be set.
[Those first two calls are leftovers from before the time that
reset_multis() morphed into check_the_multis().]
When characters are added via Verbatim Input or by pressing <Tab>,
the prepend flag should be retained, just like when characters are
typed directly.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52956.
When copying a string, source and destination may not be equal --
complain loudly when they are, instead of failing to free memory.
Also, instead of freeing the destination string and then allocating
it afresh, just reallocate it -- that should be slightly quicker.
When doing for example: ^W xx ^R ^C ^W, the "xx" would again be shown
after the prompt. This is wrong -- when starting a new search, the
current answer should be empty.
Reported-by: Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <marcodiegomesquita@gmail.com>
Instead of weaving back and forth between do_search()/do_replace() and
search_init() every time that one of the options is toggled, just keep
looping in the latter function until the user presses <Enter>.
The weaving for the do_gotolinecolumn() function remains, but is
shortened to involve only search_init().
In this way a single keystroke can produce a fragment of text or a
series of commands, or a mix of the two. It is like a prerecorded
macro.
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52931.
When a fragment of help text does not contain any whitespace that
we can wrap at, just advance the pointer, because returning zero
would mean we stay forever at the same place: nano would hang.
Instead of assuming that the entire contents of the keybuffer are an
escape sequence (even if this is far longer than any escape sequence
can be), remove from the keybuffer only those integers that actually
constituted a sequence, valid or invalid.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48659.
Trimming trailing spaces is good, but we should not trim the space
(or tab or other blank) that the user just typed and that caused the
hard-wrapping to occur.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52948.
Reported-by: Andreas Schamanek <schamane@fam.tuwien.ac.at>
The verbosity "hid" the really relevant information:
filename, line number, and the error message.
Valid values and other details can be found in the manual pages.
When the palette is getting initialized, it is too late to send any
error messages about the rcfile options to standard error.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52871.
Reported-by: Brand Huntsman <alpha@qzx.com>
Signed-off-by: Brand Huntsman <alpha@qzx.com>
When we're just searching, we do want to report the occurrence at
the cursor (after coming full circle) as a match, so that we can
mention that this is the only occurrence. When replacing, we do
not want to replace this match twice.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52888.
There shouldn't be two separate variables (but with the same name) that
count the number of digits seen. Fuse them into a single static var.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52863.
The tabsize can vary by configuring editor or viewer, but
the text has some kind of intended alignment.
Also, change the indentation a bit, to make things line up
more neatly.
The fragment "\<\." can never match anything because \< matches the
beginning of a word but "." is not a word character.
Replace \< with \B (the empty string not at the edge of a word).
Signed-off-by: Tom Levy <tomlevy93@gmail.com>
The list now includes all the Lua 5.3 functions listed on
https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/#index.
Also, remove the coloring of just the library name, so that
only known library functions get highlighted.
Signed-off-by: Tom Levy <tomlevy93@gmail.com>
Since a "0x" by itself is invalid. Also add word boundaries, so that
e.g. "00x1" (which is invalid) does not get partial highlighting.
Also remove some redundant backslashes from the strings regex.
Signed-off-by: Tom Levy <tomlevy93@gmail.com>
Each leading tab is converted to two tabs, and any leading four spaces
is converted to one tab. The intended tab size (for keeping most lines
within 80 columns) is now four.
When unindenting/uncommenting affected the bottom line of the marked
region, keep affecting this line also during subsequent consecutive
indenting/commenting.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52718.
Functions such as "io.close" should only be highlighted when the
package name ("io") is a word by itself, otherwise code such as
"fooio.close" gets unexpected partial highlighting.
Signed-off-by: Tom Levy <tomlevy93@gmail.com>
Also, remove the coloring of special single-quoted strings as they
get recolored by the subsequent general string-coloring command.
And remove the coloring of all-uppercase words, as other editors
do not color those either.
If the marked region ends at the start of a line, do not include that
line in the indenting/undenting or commenting/uncommenting. This is
closer to what the eye would expect.
Unset the "Modified" marker only at the point where the file was last
saved -- if there is such a point, because it can be missing when the
undo stack was discarded.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52689.
Reported-by: Liu Hao <lh_mouse@126.com>
Original-idea-by: Brand Huntsman <alpha@qzx.com>
The function get_keycode() should never return zero -- it should
return either the code from ncurses or the given fallback code.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52682.
When the mark is on, instead of letting a <Tab> simply insert a Tab
character at the cursor position, let it indent the marked region.
Original-idea-by: Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
And also allow it when lines are only partially indented.
This makes it possible to equalize the indentations of (accidentally)
unevenly indented lines: by first fully unindenting a group of lines,
and then reindenting them to the desired amount.
Suggested-by: Liu Hao <lh_mouse@126.com>
In this way we can delete things on the current line with ^K (after
Shift-selecting some text) without nano misdetecting a line change,
This fully fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52576.
Only when the cursor has moved off of the currrent line do we stop
prepending wrapped words to the next line.
This partially fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52576.
It's better to color some invalid things as if valid than the other
way around. So, as strings can validly contain any number of double
quotes, just accept *anything* between the delimiting double quotes
and demand that the closing quote is followed by whitespace or EOL.
When the WAS_FINAL_LINE flag is relevant (when NO_NEWLINES isn't set),
the only way for 'current' to be equal to 'filebot' is when 'current_x'
is zero.
When some or all edits have been undone, and the user starts to make
new edits, the old part of the undo stack is discarded, but this does
not mean that the undo stack doesn't go back to the very beginning.
This really fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52504.
On a freshly installed system, or for a new user, the default
XDG data directory may not exist yet. So, create it when not.
Reported-by: Brand Huntsman <alpha@qzx.com>
The softmark is now only cancelled when the cursor is moved without
Shift being held, not for things like ^L (Refresh), ^C (Position),
or ^G (Help).
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52470.
When a file is closed with the cursor on line 1, column 1, this
position is not recorded in file-positions history file -- if a
record for the file existed, it is deleted. In the latter case
the history file needs to be saved, so that other instances of
nano will know about the deletion.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52505.
The pointer not being NULL is enough indication that the mark is set.
Also, rename the pointer from 'mark_begin' to simply 'mark', since
the former is kind of pleonastic.
Because the highlighting hinders the display of affected lines,
and, more importantly, only the highlighted part would be written
if the file was modified and the user answers yes to the "Save?"
prompt.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52474.
Since file-5.10 (end of 2011), libmagic identifies a C file in most
cases as "C source" instead of as "C program". Nano's magic strings
for some other files didn't match any more what file-5.32 currently
produces, either. So, they have been adjusted, new ones added, and
old ones deleted.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52445.
Adding the obscure A_PROTECT attribute to every color prevents an
occasional miscoloring of the first few rows on the screen -- when
ncurses is version 6.0 and dates from before October 17, 2015.
Original-idea-by: Brand Huntsman <alpha@qzx.com>
Tested-by: Brand Huntsman <alpha@qzx.com>
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52182.
When there are no help lines, there won't be any call to update the
actual contents of the bottom window, so... do it immediately after
blanking the row.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52377.
Whenever a buffer is closed, check whether the positions file on disk
was modified, and if so, reload it. Then update the position for the
closed buffer and write out the positions file to disk.
Signed-off-by: Brand Huntsman <alpha@qzx.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
The function get_key_buffer() assumes waiting_mode = TRUE, but stdin
can be in non-blocking mode when a program (before nano) turned stdin
to non-blocking mode and did not change it back (possibly because it
crashed). So, explicitly set stdin to blocking mode at startup.
Signed-off-by: Lion Yang <lion@aosc.io>
When not finding a .nanorc file in the user's home directory, nano will
look for a nanorc file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and in the ~/.config/nano/
fallback directory. And when not finding a .nano/ subdir in the user's
home directory, nano will look for (or create) the history files in
$XDG_DATA_HOME or in the ~/.local/share/nano/ fallback directory.
This is a partial implementation of the XDG Base Directory Specification:
https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html,
for the purpose of reducing the clutter in a user's home directory, and
to make it easier to back up just the configuration files.
Signed-off-by: Simon Ochsenreither <simon@ochsenreither.de>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
If the user uses a single version of nano, they have no need for
--quiet. If they do sometimes use an older version and don't want
to see the warnings, they can use 2>/dev/null (they could make an
alias for that and put it before the call of nano).
Initialize 'breaking_col' to what it needs to be when the current chunk
consists of only a tab -- a tab that spreads across both start and end
of the chunk -- so that the last 'if' can move into the preceding one,
which allows the elision of 'char_len'.
In the tiny version, do_prompt() will now have an extra NULL
parameter, which will cost maybe twenty extra bytes of code.
That is acceptable when it saves thirty lines in the source.
The key sequence ^R ^X M-F <Enter> would cause nano to abort, because
it would try to add an empty string to a history list. (Furthermore,
simply don't execute an empty command, because it is pointless.)
Reported-by: Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <marcodiegomesquita@gmail.com>
After any replacements were made, the "not found" message is pointless
because it will be overwritten rightaway by "Replaced xx occurrences".
The message is confusing and annoying when using speech output.
This partially fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52282.
Reported-by: Chime Hart <chime@hubert-humphrey.com>
List "browser", "pageup" and "pagedown" in the manuals; the first
because it matches "speller", and the latter two because they are
what these functions are commonly known by. The names "tofiles",
"prevpage" and "nextpage" are now undocumented, but they are still
recognized by the code, as they match the tags for these functions.
Most people who make use of 'do_findprevious' and 'do_findnext'
will not make use of 'do_search' (the default binding of M-W),
so for them it is superfluous to remember the state of the
Backwards toggle in the Search menu. For the people that do
mix the usage of Alt+Up/Down with M-W, it means that M-W will
always search in the same direction as the last search. It is
a small change in behavior.
Allow the user to record and run a single macro. The default binding
for starting and stopping the recording is M-: (Alt + colon) and for
running the macro M-; (Alt + semicolon).
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50314.
Requested-by: Peter Passchier <peter@passchier.net>
Signed-off-by: Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <marcodiegomesquita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
^S will be the first thing people will try for saving a file,
and ^Q is somewhat mnemonic because it is to the left of ^W:
it searches backward.
Make these keystrokes available also in the tiny version.
Before writing a file out, nano should check that the file on disk
hasn't been modified since it was read -- not only for the normal
"Write Out" action (^O), but also for "Save File" (future ^S) and
for "Save and Exit" (^X when --tempfile is used).
When writing fails and --tempfile is in effect, don't go on to prompt
for a file name; instead let the user decide what she wants to do.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51040.
Signed-off-by: Viorel Bota <botaviorel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Date and version are updated to match each release, so the user does
not have to wonder whether the man page really describes the binary.
Also remove a bit of superfluous markup.
When we've landed on a tab and we are moving down and the tab starts
before the current chunk, then push the index forward -- otherwise we
would not advance. When instead we're moving up and the end of the
preceding row is on the same tab as the target column AND the end of
the current row is not on that same tab, then there is some character
on this row that we can put the cursor on, so push the index forward
-- otherwise we would skip a usable row.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52125
and fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52139.
The recent migration of the history routines forgot to add the new
file to the list of files from which strings should be extracted.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52122.
In atblanks mode, if a softwrapped chunk ends with a double-width space
character (say, Unicode 003000, Ideographic Space), and that would put
half of the character past the edge of the screen, break before it.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51671.
The basic idea is that the cursor is always off, except when it needs
to be on: when waiting for text input, and in a few other cases: when
something was searched and found in the help viewer, and in the file
browser when option -g is in effect.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51923.
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
When reducing the search string to at most half the screen width,
it should employ its width in columns, not its length in bytes.
Also adjust the type of a variable.
This fixes http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52057.
The functions to read and write history files will not even be called
when the home directory is missing, so there is no need to check for
that eventuality again.
Populating the search, replace, and execute lists makes use of the
function update_history() which sets history_changed to TRUE, which
meant that the search_history file would always get written even if
nothing had changed.
When multiple files were open and [x/n] was being shown in the title
bar, don't show nano's name and version number when just one buffer
remains open, but show [1/1] instead. It is less surprising.
When multiple buffers are open, replace nano's name and version number
with an indication how many buffers are open preceded by the sequence
number of the current buffer.
Signed-off-by: Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <marcodiegomesquita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
This is modeled after the comment/uncomment code. Each line's
individual indent is saved in the string array of the undo
group structure.
This fixes http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46860.
The function does not contain any comment-specific code, so it can
be used to handle any kind of multiline undo item.
Also, extend the undo group structure to contain an array of strings,
one for each line in the group. When indent/unindent is hooked up to
the undo/redo code, this will allow the latter to restore the exact
original indents.
Also, remove an unneeded null_at() -- the null byte has been copied,
and reallocating the string would recover very little memory.
Also, call charmove() without using the & operator.
This is modeled after the undo/redo code for commenting. do_indent() now
calls indent_a_line() on each line it covers. The latter function will
eventually be used by the undo/redo code.
When moving the cursor to the top-left corner, it is not necessary
to compute leftedge because firstcolumn IS the relevant leftedge.
Reported-by: Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>
When the screen is narrower than a tab is wide, the cursor does not need
to be on the first/last line of the window before an <Up>/<Down> could
need to scroll the screen.
This fixes http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51776.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
Check the column number, not the character index, when suppressing the
line number on chunks other than the first, since the index can be zero
when in fact we're on a later chunk.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?51790.
Using do_up() and do_end() when the user types <Left> at the start of
a line, and do_down() and do_home() when typing <Right> at line's end
can be problematic when tabs are wider than the screen, because those
functions convert indexes to columns and back again twice, thus causing
inaccuracies. Therefore, simply adjust current and current_x directly,
and then redraw the screen.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?51778.
The preceding 'for' loop has already established that all the lines are
either unindentable or composed of only blanks. So if now a line cannot
be unindented, it means it is fully blank, so it can be simply skipped.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51760.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
Also, only unindent when all selected lines can be unindented,
which means that the relative indentation will be preserved.
For this purpose, it ignores empty lines and lines consisting
of only whitespace.
When unindenting is not possible, a message is shown.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47684.
Instead of inserting the extra whitespace after the current indentation
of a line, add it to the start of the line. This causes a fixed amount
of visual whitespace to be added regardless of whether --tabstospaces
is used or not.
This fixes http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51438,
and its ancestor https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51408.
So that these functions have bindings by default, and easy bindings.
Add them to the help viewer too, so that searching backward becomes
possible there.
Tabs are of variable length depending on position, so allow them
to be displayed partially on one chunk and partially on another.
This fixes http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51621.
Adding text plus whitespace while the cursor is at or near the topleft
corner of the edit window can cause a change in the preceding chunk,
throwing firstcolumn out of alignment. Catch this special case.
This fixes http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51743.
It would be horrible if the user expects to find numbered backups
of all the files that were changed but they are NOT there because
the config file contains a typo or the relevant directory was moved
or renamed or something. So... if the specified backup directory
is not usable, nano should complain and simply not start up.
Discarding (in commit 6f9bb53b) the cap on the number of chunks to
move backwards had as an unforeseen side effect that the screen can
fail to scroll when the cursor is somehow pushed offscreen.
Fix this by setting the target row (for smooth scrolling) always to
the bottom row of the edit window when nano notices that the cursor
has gone offscreen.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51676.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
The succeeding character was needed to avoid miscolorings due to nano
getting confused about starts and ends. But since commit 7ef5c532,
nano should be getting the starts and ends always right, so... undo
"temporary" commit 7b2ea405 from two years ago.
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51526.
Reported-by: <exodus6395@googlemail.com>
The new option 'set selectedcolor' applies to marked text, to the
currently selected file in the file browser, and to the highlighted
match during interactive search-and-replace.
Include the shortcut for 'Uncut' into most menus, and add an uncut
function for the status bar, so that it becomes possible to paste
the first line of the cutbuffer at any text-input prompt.
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48501.
Requested-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Signed-off-by: Rishabh Dave <rishabhddave@gmail.com>
Assume that a linter line that contains an actual error message or
warning includes a colon followed by a space -- something that that
opening message from a modern gcc lacks.
Human column numbers are one-based, whereas x positions are zero-based.
Converting from the one to the other involves subtracting one. But when
the linter message does not provide a column number, the latter defaults
to zero. Catch that case and change the number to one.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51550.
Commit 28beb3f added the 'forreal' parameter to prevent spotlight() from
placing the cursor wrongly due to an invalid placewewant. However, since
the variable-width softwrap overhaul (specifically, since commit 8490f4a),
place_the_cursor() no longer checks placewewant, so the parameter is no
longer needed.
Furthermore, dropping 'forreal' and thus always setting current_y won't
affect the operation of spotlight(), since the only functions that use
spotlight() (do_replace_loop() and do_int_spell_fix()) both call
edit_refresh() beforehand, which means that current_y will already
have been set to the value it will be set to again.
The function place_the_cursor() assumes that the viewport is up to date,
i.e., that current is in range of edittop. When uncutting or inserting,
however, place_the_cursor() gets called on the out-of-date viewport
first, and then a screen refresh is scheduled (which would put the
viewport up to date). This is backwards: the refresh should come before
the cursor placement, and the only reason it works anyway is because the
cap on the number of chunks to move backward papers over the problem by
keeping current_y in screen range regardless.
Fix this properly by simply setting current_y to the bottom row of the
screen instead of calling place_the_cursor(). This value of current_y
is only ever used when in smooth scrolling mode and the insertion (or
paste) pushed the cursor offscreen. In other situations, this value is
overridden when place_the_cursor() gets called after a screen refresh.
After that fix, the cap on the number of chunks to move backward is no
longer needed.
When not using --smooth (nor 'set smooth'), and a line near or beyond
the end-of-file is addressed with the + command-line argument, then
center the cursor, just like Pico does -- so in the default mode,
nano is again more like Pico.
This partially addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51489.
Counting the added number of rows is only relevant when inserting
a file into the current buffer. So don't waste time counting when
it's not needed.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51479.
Since commit 8490f4ac, get_edge_and_target() depends on an up-to-date
current_x. So: make sure current_x is updated when we move to the
top left of the screen to start a non-smooth PageUp or PageDown.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51480.
For some reason, when returning from suspension, SLang will produce
either a clipped error code (0xFF instead of 0xFFFF, when returning
from an externally induced suspension), or it will clip the code of
first subsequent keystroke to a single byte (when returning from a
normal, in-editor suspension: ^Z).
Side-step this by ignoring the clipped error code, and by using an
undefined control code as the first fake keystroke. Ignoring the
clipped error code is not possible when using a single-byte locale,
otherwise the user would not be able to type the character with
code 0xFF (although it could still be entered with Esc Esc 255).
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51477.
The help lines need to be redrawn one step after a justification
(whether it has been undone or not, to replace "Unjustify" with
"Uncut" again for ^U), and after switching buffers (to update a
possibly changed tag for ^T).
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51455.
The parameter 'cols', that indicates how many columns to indent or
unindent, is changed to be always positive, so the check for being
negative can go. And it could never be zero anyway.
This should eliminate all cases where the newline is pushed off the edge
of the screen in non-atblanks softwrap mode. Also, it allows the use of
the last column of the screen in atblanks softwrap mode when a piece of
text does not contain any blanks.
This avoids the unreachable end-of-line reported on the mailing list:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2017-06/msg00011.html.
Extend get_softwrap_breakpoint() to break softwrapped lines on
whitespace when a flag is set. This flag is controlled by the new
rcfile option "atblanks". The '>' characters marking two-column
characters at the edge of the screen are disabled when it's on.
If get_softwrap_breakpoint() can't find whitespace in screen range, it
will break the line on the screen edge. (In this case, a blank can be
on the last column of the screen, but text can't, so that a blank on the
last column doesn't become invisible and possibly break the display.)
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?49959.
Requested-by: Nicholas Boel <axxisd@gmail.com>
spotlight() now displays softwrapped lines chunk by chunk instead of all
at once. Since softwrapped lines are no longer of constant width, the
latter approach would fail if softwrapping breaks the spotlighted text.
Instead of taking a string, spotlight() now takes the starting and ending
columns of that string. Also, its handling of softwrapped lines is now
split off into a separate function, spotlight_softwrapped().
get_chunk_row() and get_chunk_leftedge() now become wrappers around
get_chunk(); the latter is only used directly in place_the_cursor()
when we need to get both the row and the leftedge. get_chunk() now
uses the proper formula to implement varying chunk width.
Since chunk width now varies, place_the_cursor() sets the x position
relative to the leftedge in a different way that works regardless
of chunk width, update_softwrapped_line() loops until it gets all
softwrap breakpoints instead of calculating the full length in
advance and getting one full row at a time, the chunk iterators
now count leftedges instead of rows, and fix_firstcolumn() does a
full recalculation of the chunk that firstcolumn is on instead of
simply shifting it back.
Also, in update_softwrapped_line(), when a line's softwrap breakpoint
is before the last column of the edit window, a ">" is now added to
the end of it.
The workaround in place_the_cursor() for when two-column characters
straddle the edge of the screen is removed, as it's no longer needed
now that chunks end before such characters.
Furthermore, do_home() and do_end() use xplustabs() instead of
placewewant again when calculating the leftedge, since placewewant
refers to a column that may or may not be available (if it's not,
the cursor will be placed wrongly). Make get_edge_and_target() use
xplustabs() instead of placewewant for the same reason; this also lets
us simplify get_edge_and_target(), since xplustabs() will never be
greater than strlenpt(). Finally, since do_end() now has to calculate
rightedge as well as rightedge_x, use the former to implement the same
time-saving optimizations as in do_home().
The cursor is not yet adjusted when we try to go directly to a column
past the end of a softwrap breakpoint, and placewewant handling in the
vertical movement code is not yet adjusted for varying chunk lengths,
but fixes for these are forthcoming.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49440.
get_chunk_row() replaces the formula "column / editwincols".
get_chunk_leftedge() replaces "(column / editwincols) * editwincols".
get_last_chunk_row() replaces "strlenpt() / editwincols".
get_last_chunk_leftedge() replaces "(strlenpt() / editwincols) * editwincols".
This prepares us for any changes in those formulas, and for more such
functions later.
The new function find_softwrap_breakpoint() returns the column number
of the last position in screen range where we can wrap the given text
without breaking a two-column character in half (as was done until now).
The returned column number is the leftedge of the next softwrapped chunk.
If the end of the text is reached while searching for a wrapping point,
the parameter end_of_line is set to TRUE.
The new function get_chunk() uses find_softwrap_breakpoint() to find the
row and leftedge corresponding to a given column of a given line.
Eradicate the need for backslashes, so that the start of the nanorc
manual becomes true, where it says that quotes inside strings don't
need to be escaped. In the bargain achieve that the empty string
always switches commenting off.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51370,
and fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51394.
This avoids some warnings when compiled with -pedantic:
ISO C forbids comparison of ‘void *’ with function pointer
ISO C forbids empty initializer braces
When the active syntax contains a comment command that specifies the
empty string, this should override the default comment of "#" and
should disable the Meta-3 keystroke.
To achieve this, the comment string is now set by default to "#" for
all syntaxes, so that it will be set when no comment command is given
(including for the "none" syntax), and is unset only by explicitly
specifying «comment ""» in a syntax file.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51355.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
When also --nohelp is active and the terminal is so narrow that the
message that --constantshow displays on the bottom row does not fit,
this causes the cursor to be pushed "offscreen". Some terminal
emulators don't handle this case correctly, and leave the cursor
in an invisible or mistaken position. Compensate for this by
moving the cursor back to the start of the row.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51335.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
The extra variable is not needed, because when having read from
standard input, the filename will simply be empty. It will not
be empty for any other file that was read.
The dash doesn't have to be the first non-option argument: it can
be anywhere among the filenames -- there can even be multiple ones
(but don't mention this explicitly).
Negative arguments of 'fill' are bright green since a few commits.
So now color all valid numeric arguments in that same style -- the
yellow was hard to see on a dark background anyway.
Also, color a zero tabsize as invalid.
A recent change (8dffb00f) removed this ability. This change restores
it, and also allows reading from standard input multiple times -- maybe
not useful, but it works.
Also when a dash is the first "file" mentioned on the command line,
nano should show this buffer at startup and not the next.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51207.
In the tiny version, Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right are available only
in the editor itself and in the file browser.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51173.
The old praxis of calling total_refresh() upon a SIGCONT was confusing,
because the screen would look as if nano had returned from suspension,
but in fact the shell was still active.
Instead of calling total_refresh(), put a no-op key into ncurses' buffer,
so that, when nano actually does return out of suspension (through 'fg'),
this key will be read and discarded, upon which nano will go sit and wait
for the next key, just before which it calls doupdate(). The latter is
all we need to get the entire screen restored.
This also fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51131 for "tiny".
When receiving a SIGCONT, don't call regenerate_screen() directly
but act as if a SIGWINCH occurred. Also insert a dummy key, and
thus let the relevant input routine redraw the relevant subwindows.
Use KEY_F0 as the dummy key, as both Ncurses and Slang know it, and
it should normally do nothing at all.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51124.
When we are in the file browser, browser_refresh() will take care of
redrawing the title bar and the file list, so total_refresh() should
leave those two subwindows alone in that case.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51147.
Achieve this by making the suppression flag global, so that we can
just reset it instead of making an improper call of do_cursorpos().
This fixes the secondary part of https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51134.
It is no longer necessary to assign up() and down() separately for
the help viewer because by now the movement keys have been sorted
in order of ascending stride also in the main menu.
The two string definitions are relocated just to reduce the number
of #ifdefs.
Most of the keywords listed on the following URL are now highlighted:
http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.keywords.php
Also color single-quoted strings, and require that //-type comments
are preceded by whitespace or are alone on a line.
With-feedback-from: M <taur@mail.com>
When spotlighting the string to be replaced, placewewant isn't valid,
so tell place_the_cursor() to ignore its value to avoid the cursor
getting mistakenly placed at the beginning of the next row.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50997.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
When the column given in gotoline() is beyond the last available
column in the row of the last chunk, then set placewewant to the
actual end of the chunk, to prevent surprising jumps to the left
when moving up or down from there.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50995.
Whenever 'make' is run, it should check whether the revision has
changed, and if so, it should update src/revision.h.
This portable FORCE mechanism should have been the replacement for
the phony target that was removed in a33a4f00, five commits ago.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50956 in a better way.
Instead of always stepping back four bytes and then tentatively
moving forward again (which is wasteful when most codes are just
one or two bytes long), inspect the preceding bytes one by one
and begin the move forward at the first valid starter byte.
This reduces the backwards searching time by close to 40 percent.
Also when toggling the help lines back on or the extra editing space
back off, keep the cursor near the bottom of the screen if it /was/
there, instead of centering it -- if smooth scrolling is on, that is.
This supplements the fix for https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50933.
When the editing space gets narrower, either by toggling line numbers on
or making nano's window smaller, and when the cursor is near the bottom,
it can be pushed offscreen. In that case, don't get it back onscreen by
centering the current line but by putting it on the bottom row. This
makes for a smoother experience.
This fixes http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50933.
And hide the cursor again as soon as the user scrolls.
Achieve this through making the 'didfind' variable global.
Also, remove a superfluous call of wnoutrefresh(), as bottombars()
already does that.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50918.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
The bottomwin has just been refreshed by update_the_statusbar(),
and it should not be the responsibility of the prompt routines
to keep the edit window up to date, as they don't write anything
there.
Things have morphed over time and display_buffer() no longer actually
displays the buffer -- it just displays the title bar, precalculates
the multiline color info, and schedules a refresh of the edit window.
If the length of the haystack is smaller than the length of the needle,
this means that also the length of the tail will be smaller -- because
pointer will be bigger than or equal to haystack -- so the pointer gets
readjusted to be a needle length before the end of the haystack, which
means that it ends up /before/ the haystack: thus the while loop will
never run.
On average, this saves some 200 nanoseconds per line.
This avoids https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49912 while at the same time
avoiding to draw the edit window twice in a row -- the first drawing
would use a wrong margin, which results in a visible and irritating
shift left or right of the content upon the second drawing.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50877.
We should measure the length of each /translated/ shortcut description,
not of the original English one.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50899.
An iterator should not be called "start_col", because it is only the
starting column at the very beginning.
Also, start_col (after the rename) can never be /larger/ than column.
Since the help text is searchable, an <End> would go to the end of the
text but would leave a blank line above the statusbar -- a blank line
that wasn't there before, and that is not reached when simply holding
down <Down> all the way from the top.
When nano has multiple files open, closing a help buffer should
not switch to the next buffer in the ring but to the preceding one,
because it was from there that the help screen was invoked.
However, prefer moving the starting point of the text backwards over
moving it forward, so that of the same paragraph more text is shown
instead of less. But scroll an empty line out of view -- no text is
"lost" then.
Allow the user to search in a help text with ^W and M-W.
Achieve this by not writing the help text directly to the screen
but first writing it to a temporary file and then opening this file
in a new buffer, and treating it specially: the normal file-reading
feedback is suppressed, the titlebar shows the headline of the text,
the cursor is hidden, and the menu is limited to just the up and down
movements and searching.
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28994.
Signed-off-by: Rishabh Dave <rishabhddave@gmail.com>
Call something a buffer when it refers to a linked list of linestructs,
and call something a linestruct when it is a struct that describes a
single line.
File formats, appending and prepending, and backups are not available
when --enable-tiny is used, so prevent all relevant pieces of code from
getting compiled. And correct two misspelled ENABLE_TINY to NANO_TINY.
The cursor needs to be placed in its proper spot in the edit window
/only/ when nano is about to accept input from the user and needs to
show where this input will go.
(This might cause a scrolling issue to appear, because reset_cursor()
does not just place the cursor, it also recomputes current_y, which
is used in several places to determine whether and how much to scroll.
If it so happens, we'll deal with that fallout later.)
This also groups ^I and ^M together, and cutwordleft and cutwordright
(when they are bound). It furthermore makes that less pairs are now
mixed and instead consist of either two Ctrl or two Meta combos. In
short: it looks better in the default config. The only sacrifice is
that Verbatim is now split off from the other "inserting" keys.
When the user chooses not to open a file that some message refers to,
remove all messages for that file from the linting results, so the user
does not get asked about that same file again.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47130.
The interval 2013-2017 for the Free Software Foundation is valid
because in those years there were releases with changes by either
Chris or David, and the GNU maintainers guide advises to mention
a new year in all files of a package, not just in the ones that
actually changed, and be done with it for the rest of the year.
To make dynamic Home and End work properly when double-width characters
straddle a chunk boundary, use the spot where the cursor is really shown
instead of the "actual x" position of the current character, because the
latter might be on the preceding row.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50737.
On some terminal emulators, Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End produce special
keycodes, distinct from plain Home and End. Make the users of those
emulators (and of the Linux console) glad by making ^Home and ^End
do the obvious thing, and the combinations with Shift too.
When Enter is pressed while the cursor is exactly on the current
indent width, remove the blank characters on that line to avoid
creating a line that consists only of trailing whitespace.
(When Enter is pressed somewhere in the middle of the blanks,
however, the whitespace is preserved.)
Suggested-by: Florian Zeitz <florob@babelmonkeys.de>
When a multi-column character straddles a chunk boundary, and the
preferred column (placewewant) for the cursor is zero, cheat: show
the cursor not where the character starts but on the beginning of
the next row. This makes the cursor move smoothly in the leftmost
column of the screen when using <Up> and <Down> and such, instead
of jumping around.
In this way the scrolling logic won't get confused and the screen
will scroll properly when stepping beyond the top or bottom row.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50687.
If we're using the bundled gnulib regex module, then assume REG_ENHANCED
is not supported (since gnulib doesn't support it).
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50714.
When UTF-8 is available, use actual arrows instead of untranslated words
to indicate the cursor keys. This was already done for the combinations
with Ctrl but not yet for the plain cursor keys.
The unshifted shortcuts are easier to type, and also less confusing in
my eyes. Putting them first means they get shown in the help lines,
and get listed first in the ^G help text.
(I would also like to put ^- first instead of ^_ (because the latter
is hard to see when using the default inverse video for shortcuts),
but on several terminal emulators Ctrl+- reduces the font size.)
Use futimens() instead of utime() to change the timestamps on a backup
file. Otherwise, a non-privileged user could create an arbitrary symlink
with the name of the backup file and in this way fool a privileged user
to call utime() on the attacker-chosen file.
Import the relevant gnulib module to make sure futimens() is available.
If we're using the bundled gnulib regex module, then assume word boundary
support is available to avoid issues with the regcomp test. This also
unifies the different code paths a bit.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50705.
If edittop is partially offscreen before we scroll, and it gets
scrolled more offscreen, we do need to compensate for the chunks
between firstcolumn and leftedge -- that is: the chunks between
the top row and the cursor row.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50691.
When a two-column character cannot be shown because it straddles the
boundary between two chunks of a line, show the '>' placeholder for
its left "half", and '<' for its right "half".
This mitigates https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49440.
Remove some things we're never going to do: allowing to replace
newlines, a regression framework, characterset conversions, or
jumping to various screen lines.
The number of rows to draw shouldn't be compensated for the chunks
of edittop that are before firstcolumn, because they are offscreen.
This completes the fix for https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50621.
There is no need to always increase nrows by 1 or 2 -- an increase
of 1 is only needed when the line that borders on the scrolled region
needs to redrawn too: when this line was horizontally scrolled or when
the mark is on.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50621.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
The complementary test on current_y should only be done when doing
a scroll-only, because only then the prior line can be offscreen.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50658.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
When scrolling backward, it is not just the bottom line of the screen
that doesn't need to be redrawn: also the line /before/ the top line
doesn't need a redraw. Mutatis mutandis for scrolling forward.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50657.
When determining the leftedge of the current chunk, it is not simply
the leftedge that corresponds to the placewewant, but the leftedge that
corresponds to the minimum of the placewewant and the full line span.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50653.
When typing PageUp or PageDOwn in non-smooth-scrolling mode, the cursor
should be placed at the start of the top line of the edit window. This
means that, when the line at edittop is partially scrolled offscreen,
the cursor should be placed at openfile->firstcolumn, not at zero.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50645.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
The iswspace() was only used when iswblank() was missing. The latter
is now provided by gnulib, so it is always available, so iswspace()
is not used at all anymore.
Mention the ability to use <Tab> in the search history, the ability
to restore the cursor position when reopening a file, the ability to
read output of a command, and the lack of file-managing commands in
the file browser.
The "./" is a shorthand for "current working directory".
It is better to specify it, because it differs from what
Pico does: reading always from the user's home directory
no matter where the editor was started.
Only use the "from" thing when an operating directory is in effect,
because /only/ then the indicated directory can be something other
than "./".
Also, make it so that there is no space before the colon.
Put all the movement keys together, in order of ascending stride.
Also, move the Undo/Redo keystrokes further up, so that, when the
user has a somewhat wider terminal than the usual 80 characters,
these keystrokes will be shown -- they are far more interesting
than the ^Y and ^V ones, for which PgUp and PgDn can be used.
If the number of columns in the edit window changes (which currently
only happens in two places: in regenerate_screen(), called when the
window is resized; and in main(), when line numbering mode is toggled),
the display will break if we're in softwrap mode and firstcolumn is
nonzero. This is because the column width of softwrapped chunks has
changed, and firstcolumn is no longer the starting column of a chunk,
an assumption that all code using firstcolumn relies on.
To fix this problem, add a new function, ensure_firstcolumn_is_aligned(),
to adjust firstcolumn to the starting column of the chunk it's on, and
use it when the number of columns in the edit window changes.
(Note that this function uses the simplest possible fix, and could
probably be made more sophisticated.)
In do_replace(), replacing text may change firstcolumn if the next match
is offscreen, and replacing text after that will not change it back. In
order to keep the viewport unchanged, we have to save and restore not
just edittop, but firstcolumn as well.
In do_int_spell_fix(), spell-checking text may change firstcolumn if
the next match is offscreen, and spell-checking text after that will
not change it back. In order to keep the viewport unchanged, we have
to save and restore not just edittop, but firstcolumn as well.
In do_justify(), justifying text may change firstcolumn if the paragraph
ends offscreen, and unjustifying the text again will not change it back.
In order to keep the viewport unchanged, we have to save and restore not
just edittop, but firstcolumn as well.
Copying text involves first cutting it and then quickly pasting it back.
However, cutting the text may change firstcolumn if the mark is offscreen.
To keep the viewport unchanged, copy_text() has to save and restore not
just edittop, but firstcolumn as well.
Now that we can add text to the bottom right corner of the screen
without scrolling the full line onscreen, do_output() needs to refresh
the screen in that case, since it would put the cursor offscreen
otherwise. Accomplish this by borrowing logic from do_right().
In do_up() when scroll_only is TRUE, if we're at the top of the screen
in softwrap mode, it's not enough to check that edittop is on fileage.
We also need to check that firstcolumn is zero.
In do_up() when scroll_only is FALSE, if we're at the top of the screen
in softwrap mode, current_y should be zero. This is equivalent to how,
in do_down() when scroll_only is FALSE, current_y is (editwinrows - 1)
at the bottom of the screen in softwrap mode. Since edittop can now
be partially scrolled off the screen even when it takes up the entire
screen, checking for edittop's being equal to openfile->current->next
there no longer applies.
The new function, update_softwrapped_line(), is called from inside
update_line() when softwrap mode is on, so that existing calls remain
unchanged. It takes no index, instead displaying edittop from column
firstcolumn, and all other lines from column zero.
If current is on edittop, it's displayed using the edittop rules, but
this is not a problem: if current[current_x] is above edittop at column
firstcolumn, it's offscreen, and that should be handled before calling
update_line() anyway.
Together with the preceding bunch of changes,
this fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47667.
Make current_is_above_screen() check for current[current_x] being above
edittop at column firstcolumn, and make current_is_below_screen() start
counting down from edittop at column firstcolumn instead of edittop at
column zero. This means that both functions now account for softwrapped
chunks properly.
Actually enable scrolling edittop partially off the screen by making
edit_scroll() and adjust_viewport() use firstcolumn properly when
iterating through softwrapped chunks in softwrap mode, or lines in
non-softwrap mode.
In non-softwrap mode, firstcolumn should still always be zero, because
it's initially set to that, and because passing it through the iterators
will maintain it at that.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49100.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
We want to be able to scroll the line at edittop partially off the
screen. For this to be possible, the new variable firstcolumn stores
the starting column of the viewport -- the starting column in the line
that edittop points to.
Since firstcolumn is used by go_back_chunks() and go_forward_chunks(),
it can't be completely #ifdefed out when NANO_TINY is set, but outside
of softwrap mode it should always be zero.
Currently firstcolumn is initialized to zero, reset to zero when
toggling softwrap mode off, and reset to zero when switching buffers
while softwrap mode is off. It's otherwise unused, but its uses are
forthcoming.
Since all lines can be partially scrolled off the screen now
(except for the top line of the edit window, which is forthcoming),
ensure_line_is_visible() is no longer needed.
Since all lines can be partially scrolled off the screen now
(except for edittop, which is forthcoming), the maxlines global
variable and its computation mechanism are no longer needed.
Use go_back_chunks() and go_forward_chunks() to move a screenful of
lines or chunks up or down, instead of using special computations in
the softwrap case.
Use go_back_chunks() and go_forward_chunks() in do_up() and do_down()
(instead of using a special and complicated computation in do_down())
so that they now properly move vertically to the previous/next chunk
in softwrap mode. This also means that do_left() and do_right() will
now properly move vertically at actual line boundaries.
Use the new "unclever" functionality of Home and End to make do_left()
and do_right() move properly to the end of the previous chunk or to the
start of the next chunk in softwrap mode when crossing a line boundary.
(Furthermore, doing Up plus End, or Down plus Home, does all needed
screen updates, which simplifies the code.)
The do_left() and do_right() functions don't yet properly move vertically
at line boundaries, but that will be fixed once do_up() and do_down() are
updated for softwrap mode, which is forthcoming.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49384.
Add the parameter be_clever to both functions. When be_clever is FALSE,
smart home and dynamic home are disabled in do_home(), and dynamic end is
disabled in do_end(), so that these functions only move to the beginning
or end of the current line or chunk.
This simple home and end functionality is needed to improve do_left()
and do_right()'s horizontal behavior with softwrapped chunks, which is
forthcoming.
Make do_end() more useful in softwrap mode: let it move to the end of the
current chunk instead of the end of the line; only when already at the end
of a chunk, let it move to the end of the line. This is "dynamic end".
Make do_home() more useful in softwrap mode: let it move to the beginning
of the current chunk instead of to the beginning of the whole line; only
when already at the beginning of a chunk, let it move to the beginning of
the line. This is called "dynamic home'.
The above rules are ignored when --smarthome is in effect and the cursor
is somewhere in the leading whitespace of a line -- then the cursor is
moved to the first non-whitespace character of the line.
These improvements will eventually make do_home() and do_end() take
parameters. Since the global function lists can hold only functions
without parameters, preemptively add do_home_void() and do_end_void(),
and make the global function lists use them.
Use go_back_chunks() and go_forward_chunks() to move from the row
current_y is on to the row mouse_row is on. Now softwrap mode and
non-softwrap mode will behave the same way when we can scroll edittop
partially off the screen, which is forthcoming. Accordingly, remove
the call to ensure_line_is_visible(), as it no longer applies.
The old code did work, but it behaved differently between softwrap mode
(which counted down from edittop) and non-softwrap mode (which counted
up or down from current_y to take less time, and used a double loop to
keep current from going to NULL).
The new code counts up or down from current_y in both softwrap mode and
non-softwrap mode. In non-softwrap mode, it also avoids the double loop,
since go_back_chunks() and go_forward_chunks() keep the filestructs they
operate on from going to NULL.
Use go_back_chunks() to adjust edittop, instead of special casing
the computation of goal when softwrapping. Now softwrap mode and
non-softwrap mode will behave the same way when edittop can be
partially scrolled off the screen, which is forthcoming.
(Note that the top line of the screen can't be partially scrolled
yet, so we have to work around that for now.)
Use go_back_chunks() and go_forward_chunks() to adjust edittop and to
move up or down to the scrolled region before updating the rows there.
Now softwrap mode and non-softwrap mode will behave the same way when
we can scroll the top line of the screen partially off the screen,
which is forthcoming.
(Note that the top line of the screen can't be partially scrolled yet,
so we have to work around that for now.)
Not drawing a line on a row if we're on the top row and scrolled down,
or if we're on the bottom row and scrolled up, will only work properly
if the line on that row takes up only that row. The latter might not
be the case in softwrap mode: if the line occupies multiple chunks and
begins on that row -- in that case none of the chunks would be drawn.
Add the new functions current_is_above_screen() (which doesn't account
for softwrapped chunks yet, but will when we can scroll edittop partially
off the screen, which is forthcoming), current_is_below_screen() (which
determines whether current[current_x] is past the softwrapped chunk at
the bottom of the screen), and current_is_offscreen() (the union of the
previous two functions).
edit_redraw() and edit_refresh() now use current_is_offscreen() to check
whether they should adjust the viewport, and adjust_viewport() now uses
current_is_above_screen() to determine whether current is on or below
the screen in FLOWING mode.
Add the new function less_than_a_screenful() to accomplish this.
It uses go_back_chunks() to count the number of softwrapped chunks
between the end point and the starting point of the paste.
Now softwrap mode and non-softwrap mode behave the same way when
uncutting fewer than editwinrows rows of text. Accordingly, remove
the call to ensure_line_is_visible(), as it no longer applies.
Use go_forward_chunks() to count softwrapped chunks between the current
cursor position and the bottom of the file. Now softwrap mode and
non-softwrap mode behave the same way when moving to a line and column
non-interactively, instead of the former's always centering the screen.
These functions, go_back_chunks() and go_forward_chunks(), take a number
of softwrapped chunks (screen rows) to move, a pointer to a buffer, and
a location (specifically, a starting column of a softwrapped chunk). If
they move successfully, they will update the buffer pointer and location
to point to the beginning of the softwrapped chunk they moved to.
Since non-softwrap mode is effectively just a subset of softwrap mode
in which every line takes up one chunk, these functions also work in
non-softwrap mode. In this case, their starting column will always be
zero, as it would be in softwrap mode on a line that takes up one chunk.
Nothing uses these functions yet, but that is forthcoming.
Instead of redetermining the entire span of the converted string,
simply move one character left, and then bite it off to make place
for the trailing $.
If the last two columns of a row would be taken up by a double-width
character (and the line is longer than that), don't print it, because
it wouldn't leave any room for the $ character.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50491.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
On a system with up-to-date GNU tools, this does not change
the size of nano's binary.
We start off with importing only a few modules, although we
don't yet delete the fallback logic for them.
The gettext-0.18.3 release was made in Jul 2013, while the 0.11.5
release was made in Aug 2002. Time to update :).
Also drop all the bundled gettext m4 files. When you run autogen.sh,
these will get copied in automatically for you.
The autoconf-2.69 release was made in Apr 2012.
The automake-1.14 release was made in Jun 2013.
Update the requirements so we know we can rely on macros/features
available in those versions.
The mark only needs to be off when calling replace_marked_buffer(),
because this indirectly calls ingraft_buffer(), which fiddles with
the end points if the mark is on.
Running strlenpt() on a string that takes up more than 80 columns
(the width of an average terminal) takes /more/ time than simply
converting an extra character (the one that will be overwritten
by the "$" at the edge of the terminal). So... just convert one
more character than necessary when the line is overlong. In the
most common case, however, the line will fit fully onscreen, and
we save a whole call of strlenpt().
Since we only need span columns of the string, stop scanning the string
as soon as we have that many columns, instead of scanning the string all
the way to the end. This speeds up the conversion of very long lines.
Replace partitioning with calls to extract_buffer() and ingraft_buffer().
In addition to pasting the unjustified text back into the buffer at
current[current_x], ingraft_buffer() also deals with renumbering and
updating totsize, so do_justify() doesn't need to do those anymore
when unjustifying.
With read_file() revamped, it now uses partition_filestruct() indirectly
via ingraft_buffer(), so we can't use partition_filestruct() to replace
marked text in the alternate spell checker anymore without segfaulting.
Add the new function replace_marked_buffer() to accomplish this instead.
Based on replace_buffer(), it uses extract_buffer() to throw away the
marked un-spell-checked text, and then uses read_file() to insert the
spell-checked text at the position where the mark was.
Accordingly, remove unneeded partitioning and related stuff from
do_alt_speller(). Besides pasting the file into the buffer at
current[current_x], ingraft_buffer() also deals with renumbering,
updating totsize, and handling a magicline, so do_alt_speller()
doesn't need to do those anymore.
Move buffer handling and '\r' stripping from read_line() to read_file(),
so that the file gets its format determined and gets stored in its own
buffer entirely in one function. Then use ingraft_buffer() to insert
this new buffer into the current one.
In addition to pasting the file at current[current_x], ingraft_buffer()
also deals with renumbering, the updating of totsize, and the handling
of a magicline, so read_file() doesn't need to do those anymore.
Note that all this makes read_file() depend on the position of
current[current_x] to know where to insert the file. Accordingly,
set current_x to zero in initialize_buffer_text() instead of in
make_new_buffer(), so that replace_buffer() keeps working properly.
Add its explanation as a separate paragraph.
Also: improve the argument of the --syntax option, as this is a <name>
and not merely a bundle of characters like the other <str> arguments.
In this last loop of break_line(), the pointer 'line' is one step ahead
of the index 'lastblank'. So the loop should first add the length of
the preceding character to 'lastblank' before determining the length
of the current character (and using this to advance 'line').
(There is something wrong in the last loop: line is one character ahead
of lastblank, but the current character length is added to both of them.
It thus assumes that all blank characters are the same number of bytes.
For spaces and tabs this works fine. But for more exotic blanks...)
Also, rename a parameter to be less cryptic, and remove an entire
condition because the relevant block will never be reached when
getting called from the help routines: if blank_loc is negative,
the function will have bailed out in the preceding if.
In softwrap mode, the entire line is onscreen, so the word is never
partially offscreen, so we always have enough columns to show it.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50389.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
Instead of allocating enough space to convert the entire passed string,
just allocate space for converting the part that will be converted --
that is: starting from start_index. This still allocates far too much
(if the passed string is very long and its tail part won't fit on the
screen), but it's better than before.
Cap the number of pauses when displaying ALERT messages, to avoid
making the user wait for ages when tens or hundreds of files were
specified on the command line.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50362.
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
When in softwrap mode, no "$" continuation characters are displayed,
so the code that reserves space for them should be skipped then.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50335.
As a small service to the user, reject empty regex strings,
because an entirely empty regex simply doesn't make sense.
Inspired-by: Elia Geretto <elia.f.geretto@gmail.com>
When the marked region covers only a single line (or a part of it),
its new endpoint is not simply the length of the last line of the
spell-checked text, but instead the old endpoint plus the /change/
in length.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50316.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
The previous code only directly refreshed the screen when the margin
changed due to toggling line numbering on. When the margin changed
due to toggling it off, it would indirectly refresh via do_toggle().
When replacements are made, nothing needs to be reset any more
(it was done insufficiently anyway). Just make sure the screen
is refreshed when all is done -- this may be superfluous when
doing interactive replacements, but not when replacing all.
When coloring a line, look only at the multidata of the preceding
line, and based on that determine what to seek in the current line.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50292.
When painting a line, the multidata of the line /before/ it is valid
in most cases: it was determined just a moment ago. And it tells us
all we need to know: whether there is an unpaired start match before
the current line or not.
The only exception is when painting the first line of the screen:
the multidata of the line before it might be stale. So for the
first screen line we will always have to do some backtracking.
But that is left for later.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50121.
If we're somewhere deep into the file and do a spell check, and the
first misspelled word happens to be right there, onscreen already,
then this word does not need to be centered -- it /should/ not be
centered. We should scroll only when necessary.
After the changes to the search routine, it is no longer necessary to
take one step back before starting a replacement session.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50147.
Even when a match falls within the marked region, this does not mean
that it is a true match when already the whole file has been searched,
because then this is the second time we find this match.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50158.
The spell fixer does not provide a beginning line, so the search routine
should then not try to refer to any data of this line. Also, since the
changes to the search routine there is no need any more to retreat one
step before starting to search for a misspelled word.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50159.
That is: remove the special treatment of BOW anchors, and instead make
regexes match against the whole line instead of against an artificially
shortened one, because the latter method creates ghost matches: matches
at the starting point of the search that aren't really matches when seen
in the context of the whole line.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50030.
When the tail of a match falls outside of the marked region,
it is in fact not a match and should not be replaced.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50136.
When a replacement happens right at where the cursor sits, the position
of the cursor should not be adjusted, because the real cursor position
is between the current character and the preceding one: the place where
the cursor is shown is in fact right /after/ the insertion point.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50134,
and fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50135.
Just assign the 'CNONE' value upfront, instead of figuring out
at the end of the line whether anything has been assigned yet.
Also, the old logic would leave unmarked a line that contains a
start match without any terminating end match. Not serious, but
not right.
Don't blithely overshoot the end of a line when both start regex and
end regex match an empty string. Overshooting would let the matching
run on into uncharted country and thus ultimately cause a segfault.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50056.
Reported-by: Elia Geretto <elia.f.geretto@gmail.com>
During precalculation and in step_two, we begin looking for an end
match only after the full start match, not merely one byte beyond
its starting point. So do that too when searching backward for an
unpaired start match.
Also, index can never be zero here, because if the match was of length
zero, this piece of code will have been skipped by the preceding goto.
So we can always use REG_NOTBOL here.
(That goto is wrong, by the way: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50078,
but that will follow later.)
A search should start at the place of the cursor, not one step beyond,
so that the non-word boundary between the current character and the next
will be found. Starting one step beyond the current character, as was
done until now, would find the non-word boundary between the next and
the overnext character as the first one.
If the given line is out of range of editwinrows, we don't display it
at all, so we obviously don't display more than one line of it. Thus,
the return value in this case should be zero, not one.
(The mistake becomes visible when you go to the end of a very long line
of double-width characters: the $ will be shown on the right edge, even
though you're already at line's end.)
This reverts commit 16a7fd4b from yesterday.
When there is no end match after a start, it is pointless to look
for any more starts because also they will not have any end match,
so nothing will get painted -- just cut the loop short.
The tiny version can do regex searches nowadays, so the user might use
the \< and \> anchors in their regexes.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50008.
The renamed variable 'index' is not the start of a match (as some comment
mistakenly said), but from where in the line we start looking for a next
match.
Also, use one more goto to allow unindenting a big piece of code, and
shortcircuit two while loops for two more small unindents.
The setting of current_y in copy_from_filestruct() also appears to be
a holdover from the days of a more-common STATIONARY scrolling mode.
do_cut_text() uses the above function when copying text (uncutting
text again right after cutting it). Since the text is effectively
the same afterward, current_y doesn't need to change.
do_uncut_text(), however, does need current_y up to date in one case:
when uncutting a full screen or less' worth of lines, focusing will be
FALSE, and it uses edit_refresh(), so it will use STATIONARY scrolling
mode then. Take a cue from do_insertfile() and call reset_cursor() to
get an updated current_y.
(Note that the check for a full screen or less' worth of lines uses
incorrect values when in softwrap mode, but that's a separate problem.)
undo_cut(), do_redo(), and backup_lines() do not need set current_y
because they all result in edit_refresh() with focusing = TRUE, so
they do a CENTERING scroll which does not need current_y.
It is the misuse of "x_" to mean a column position on screen, and the
misuse of "_col" to mean a character position in a string that causes
this confusion.
All these different "start"s and "end"s are confusing. Use instead
'from_x and 'till_x' to remember which part of the current line is
visible now on screen and is thus represented in 'converted'.
In order to determine the correct multidata for a line that doesn't
have such data yet, the whole line must be examined, not just the
part that fits within the screen width.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49978.
A tag begins not merely with a "<" but it must be followed by an
ASCII alphabetic character or one of "/", "!" and "?".
Further, color all the valid attribute names in red.
That is: only extend the current Del or Backspace undo item when the
cursor is still (or again) at the same spot.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50006.
If the system on which nano is configured does not have the 'makeinfo'
program installed, the prebuilt and packaged nano.info and nano.html
should nevertheless be installed.
Also, the TEXINFOS primary has built-in rules for generating HTML files
from the texinfo sources, so an explicit rule is not needed.
This indirectly addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49969.
Instead of setting openfile->current_y (and wrongly so), just call
reset_cursor() to recompute current_y and place the cursor on that
line (if it is not offscreen).
The search routine begins searching right after the cursor and behaves
as if the line starts there, which means that a beginning-of-word anchor
(\< or \b) will match there also when in fact the cursor is sitting in
the middle of a word. To prevent finding a false match, verify that
for a regex that starts with a BOW anchor the found match is actually
the start of a word.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45630.
Since do_mouse() uses edit_redraw(), openfile->current_y will be
immediately recalculated, so there's no point in changing it now.
Use a temporary variable instead.
The value of sameline doesn't change, so it can be initialized to that.
Since i holds openfile->current_y, it should be ssize_t, not size_t.
And it's better to do the most significant part of a calculation first.
Many of the adjustments of the value of openfile->current_y appear to be
a holdover from the days when certain functions had to account for what
is now called STATIONARY scrolling mode, which depends on the value of
current_y. Remove these adjustement where they are superfluous.
do_para_begin(), do_para_end(), and do_bracket_match() update the screen
through edit_redraw(), which uses either CENTERING or FLOWING scrolling
mode, so their setting of current_y is redundant and useless, as it will
be ignored and then overridden by the next call to reset_cursor().
findnextstr() is called by go_looking() [which calls edit_redraw(), see
above], and by do_replace_loop() and do_int_spell_fix(), which both call
edit_refresh(), which in this case only uses CENTERING scrolling mode
since focusing is TRUE.
(Additionally, the adjustments of current_y in findnextstr() and
do_bracket_match() use incorrect values when in softwrap mode.)
find_paragraph() doesn't need to save or restore current_y, because it
doesn't do any screen updates. do_justify() calls edit_refresh() with
focusing set to TRUE, so it uses the CENTERING scrolling mode.
do_alt_speller() and do_formatter() do not need to save and restore
current_y, because they don't modify it in any way.
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?9197.
This makes nano's cursor behavior consistent across 1) typing text by
hand; 2) pasting in text with ^U; 3) inserting text from a file; and
4) redoing with M-E that same typing or pasting or inserting.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49968.
There are just a handful of source files for the documentation --
it is wasteful and cumbersome to have these in separate directories.
Also: remove the French man pages -- they are too far out of date.
(And anyway, we should acquire a general framework for translating
the documentation.)
The warning is wrong when the user has just saved a buffer under a
new name. And when --quickblank is used, the warning most likely
gets cleared off before it is seen, and the user would just hear
the beep and be left wondering what happened.
This avoids https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49875.
This disallows entering a verbatim ^J (0x0A) when typing text or
search terms, and disallows a verbatim ^@ (0x00) when typing a
filename. Nano beeps when the disallowed code is attempted.
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49897.
Also at the yes-no prompt, a 0x0A byte should be displayed as a ^J
instead of splitting the prompt bar in two and spreading it over
two lines.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49934.
After a call to the Formatter or the Alternate spell checker, the data
on the undo stack could refer to line positions that don't exist any
more -- the chance is small, but it is there. So... throw the whole
undo stack away, to prevent undoing things wrongly or even crashing.
(Changes made with the internal spell checker can be undone and redone
without a problem -- nano keeps full track of those. But the changes
made with a formatter or an external spell checker happen in another
process, so nano has no record of them.)
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49920.
When using an external spell checker or formatter, the line with
the cursor might become shorter, which might result in the stored
cursor position being beyond the end-of-line. So, when restoring
the x position, make sure to limit it to the length of the line.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49923.
In path names and file names, 0x0A means an embedded newline and
should be shown as ^J, but in anything related to the file's data,
0x0A is an encoded NUL and should be displayed as ^@.
So... switch mode at the two main entry points into the "file system"
(reading in a file, and writing out a file), and also when drawing the
titlebar. Switch back to the default mode in the main loop.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49893.
Decode 0x0A bytes to 0x00 when saving the search history, and encode
them again when reading the file back in, to prevent nano from hanging
or aborting when encountering 0x00 on a line by itself.
After updating the color palette, the corresponding new window content
should be drawn immediately, before some other part of the code calls
doupdate(), to prevent the old content being shown in the new colors.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49912.
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
In nano 2.7.1 and 2.7.2, pressing Shift+Ctrl+Arrow on a Linux console
would behave as if Shift wasn't held. It got broken three months ago,
by commit 08cd197b, messing up the proper order of the checks.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49906.
On some systems, typing ^C apparently results in a KEY_CANCEL in
the input stream, which gets hard-bound to the do_cancel function.
But in the main menu there is no Cancel function. So... in that
case, let it fall back to the plain old Ctrl-C code: 0x03.
Reported-by: Liam Gretton <liam.gretton@leicester.ac.uk>
A filename might contain spaces, so we can't look for the numbers
(the second and third elements) starting from the head of the line
-- we have to start at the tail and work backward.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49879.
So they will not break a line in the positionlog file in two.
(Strangely, the reading in of such a log file already decodes
nulls back into newlines.)
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49877.
The byte 0x0A means 0x00 *only* when it is found in nano's internal
representation of a file's data, not when it occurs in a file name.
This fixes the second part of https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49867.
Most full paths are needed only temporarily and will be freed within
milliseconds. Only 'full_operating_dir' and 'backup_dir' continue to
exist for the whole current session. Any partition, too, will soon be
unpartitioned, so the extra reallocation is just a waste of time.
That is: elide a second test from the most travelled path: a valid
character. This adds a second call of mblen() when parse_mbchar()
is called on a terminating zero, but that should never happen.
The fsfromline() function is mostly used by the undo functions, which
are not present in the tiny version. It is also used by the comment/
uncomment feature, but this feature cannot be enabled when --enable-tiny
is in effect.
Convert digits() to take a ssize_t instead of an int, since it's
used on ssize_t line numbers. And properly use the long modifier
when displaying a line number.
Also, conditionalize the digits() prototype.
An added magic linefeed should be removed again /before/ restoring
the x position, as the latter needs to be calculated from the real
last line of the region.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49817.
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
When wanting to debug something, it is far more useful
to temporarily insert lines like:
statusline(ALERT, "name = %i", variable);
It provides instant feedback, and it slows things down,
so you can kind of see what happens.
The functions read() and fwrite() take size_t, not ssize_t.
And line numbers in the file should be displayed as a long type instead
of an int, since the effective type of ssize_t is not int, but long.
(The variable 'pletion_line' is not conditionalized with this option, as
it would become messy. The compiler will probably be able to elide it.)
When using --enable-tiny, it is not possible to use --enable-wordcomp,
because the word completion function uses the undo system.
Executing the 'complete_a_word' function will search from the start
of the current buffer for entire words that begin with the fragment
that is before the cursor, and will complete this fragment to the
first word that is found. Each consecutive call of 'complete_a_word'
will search for the next matching word and will complete the fragment
to that. By default the function is bound to the ^] keystroke.
Signed-off-by: Sumedh Pendurkar <sumedh.pendurkar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Modern VTE-based terminals now produce codes for those keys and
no longer swallow them when nano is active.
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49746.
Achieve this by reusing the code that gives feedback when trying to
save a buffer while using --tempfile and the file has no name yet.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48622.
Also for Delete, End, PageUp and PageDown (on some terminals)
the last byte in the sequence needs to be checked.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49710.
If it would, the returned file descriptor would make nano crash,
because the corresponding stream has not been opened. And when
returning zero instead (as the code did originally), nano would
open an empty buffer, although it claims to be reading the file.
In short: I think this is a leftover of an attempted fix of
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25297, from commit 2823c99.
We should avoid defining color schemes that are unreadable on common
white-on-black or black-on-white terminals. Change the black in the
autoconf error strings to brightred for that reason.
When probing symbols provided by ncurses, use the sublibs that pkg-config
reported in case they're needed (like when libtinfo is a sep library).
URL: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49614
- make version highlight less blindly greedy and conform to real versions
- move version matching before USE matching to avoid hitting USE flags
that look like versions
- change USE regex to match the Gentoo PMS
- extend arch match to include more keywords
- make category matching more restrictive to avoid false positives
- drop operators =< and => that Gentoo doesn't support
URL: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49569
Reported-by: Konstantin Shakhnov <kastian@mail.ru>
Otherwise the user can override a 'set nowrap' in /etc/nanorc only
via the command line.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49593 reported by Shirish.
When giving a line number on the command line, do_gotolinecolumn() needs
to know the width of the screen to be able to (roughly) place the target
line in the center of the screen.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49462.
It does not update anything -- it just picks a new point from
where to start displaying the buffer. All actual updating of
the screen is done by edit_refresh() and edit_redraw() and such.
It can be activated with --linenumbers on the command line or with
'set linenumbers' in a nanorc file, and it can be toggled with M-#.
Signed-off-by: Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Returning a zero would mean returning a ^Space -- the keycode that
by default is bound to the Next-Word function. So, unbinding the
keys to which the modified Arrow keys are hard bound would cause
the latter ones to mysteriously jump to the next word.
This partially fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49058.
Add the keycodes and routines to allow the user to forego setting the
mark explicitly (with M-A / ^6) and instead quickly select a few words
or lines by holding down Shift together with the movement keys.
(Some combinations with Shift are swallowed by some terminal emulators.
To work around some of those, the combinations Shift+Alt+Left/Right work
as Shift+Home/End and Shift+Alt+Up/Down work as Shift+PageUp/PageDown.)
This also prevents the message from spilling into the help lines
when the terminal is less than four columns wide. (Not that one
can read anything then, but it looks better.)
Even when the edit window consists of just one or two lines, the PageUp
and PageDown functions (^Y and ^V) should continue to move the window.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48805.
When using the default speller or the formatter, the placewewant is
remembered. So it should be remembered too when the user specifies
a different speller.
(This behavior was inadvertently lost last year, in commit 82d737e.)
It is quicker to do a handful of superfluous compares at the end of
each line than it is to compute and keep track of and compare the
remaining line length the whole time.
The typical line is some sixty characters long, the typical search
string ten characters -- with a shorter search string the speedup is
even higher: some fifteen percent. Only when the string is longer
than half the average line length does searching become slower with
this new method.
All this for a UTF-8 locale. For a C locale it makes no difference.
Now that mbstrncasecmp() does the right thing, there is no need any
more to verify that only a valid multibyte sequence was matched.
(See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45579 for a test case.)
Also, this will make it possible to search for invalid sequences.
(Currently it isn't possible to enter a search string with invalid
characters, but... a user might edit the search history file. And
if pasting at the prompt is implemented, it will be trivial to enter
invalid sequences if you have a file that contains them.)
Persisting might lead to count 'n' reaching zero, which would mean that
the needle has matched, which is wrong when one of the strings contains
an invalid or incomplete multibyte sequence.
That is: don't run towlower() on the two differing bytes when having
reached the end of one of the strings.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48700.
In the bargain, don't do the conversion to lowercase twice.
Furthermore, persist when encountering invalid byte sequences --
until finding bytes that differ.
The needle is never part of the hay -- it is always a separate string.
(And even if needle and haystack were identical, the routine works fine,
the case does not need special treatment.)
When doing an <Up> on the top line, or a <Down> on the bottom line of
the edit window, the affected lines have already been redrawn by the
scrolling code, so there is no need to do that again.
(However, that does not prevent the second line (or the last-but-one
line) from being redrawn unnecessarily when using the M-- (or M-+)
command elsewhere on the screen and /that/ line is horizontally
scrolled. But we'll let that pass for now.)
For horizontal scrolling, it is not the /desired/ column position that
is relevant for determining whether a line needs to be redrawn after a
cursor movement, but the /actual/ column positions before and after.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48627,
and fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48629.
Leave the rest of any escape sequence to be processed normally, which
should be possible because those characters are all in ASCII range.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48318.
Also, when a key string does not denote a Ctrl nor Meta nor Function key,
there is no point in assigning a keycode, because plain characters cannot
be used as a function shortcut.
And hard-bind the keys Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down to these functions.
Unlike the paragraph-jumping code, these new functions disregard
any indentation, treating only blank lines as separators. They
also do an automatic smart home when that option is set.
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48291.
Also, compose the coloring attributes during initialization
instead of every time when painting something.
Signed-off-by: Rishabh Dave <rishabhddave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Instead of referring to a window that might have been deleted by a
resize, just turn the keypad back on for the two windows from which
input might have been requested.
Also: don't insert KEY_WINCH as the verbatim keystroke.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48532.
This allows the user to specify which other characters, besides the
default alphanumeric ones, should be considered as part of a word, so
that word operations like Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right will pass them by.
Using this option overrides the option --wordbounds.
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47283.
When the user changes her mind after having pressed Esc, she cannot
unpress Esc, so do that for her by ignoring the escape code when
the subsequent keycode is outside of the normal printable range.
This restores the behavior from before nano-2.3.5 -- except that
Ctrl+Alt+key continues to report an unbound key.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48459.
This prevents many keycode sequences from being misconstrued when a
command key plus other keystrokes accumulate in the input buffer.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48395.
Add them so that <Esc> followed by <Home> will simply do "Home" instead of
reporting an unbound key. The same for <End>, <PageUp> and <PageDown>.
This restores the behavior from before nano-2.3.5.
It is easy to type beside the comma key and hit instead "m" or ".", so
accept also these as a separator between line and column number. And
when being generous anyway, also accept space, slash and semicolon.
This fulfills https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48305.
Signed-off-by: Rishabh Dave <rishabhddave@gmail.com>
Precalculation of the multiline color data can be cut short when the
user is impatient and starts typing. But this would drop the first
byte of whatever was typed -- not nice when it was just plain text,
but surprising and worse when the first keystroke was a command.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48388.
When for a multiline syntax-coloring rule the starting regex matches at
the exact same spot as the ending regex, do a second round of resets, so
that reevaluation starts further back and gets a few more things right.
This mildly fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47420.
When we get a ^J as verbatim input, it is not possible to include it
into the file buffer or the prompt answer, because this would mean
adding an encoded null to the buffer or answer, and that is not what
the user intended. One option would have been to simply ignore a ^J
in verbatim input. But the choice has been made to act the same way
as when the ^J (0x0A) is found in the file data: start a new line.
That is the same response as to the Enter key, yes -- but the code
for the Enter key is ^M (0x0D), not ^J. So, to be more precise,
rename the relevant variable from 'got_enter' to 'got_newline'.
When the user tab-completed a name at the Go To Directory prompt, this
name will end in a slash. Remove this slash, so the name can be found
in the file list (where directory names don't include the final slash).
This fixes http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48353.
Signed-off-by: Rishabh Dave <rishabhddave@gmail.com>
Invalid multibyte sequences get depicted with the Replacement Character,
and unassigned codepoints are shown as if they were a space. Both have
a width of one.
Just allocate ample space up front and thus discard the delaying 'if' for
each and every character. In most cases this will allocate far too much,
but that hardly matters: it is freed again as soon as the line is printed.
Keystrokes are single integers (aided by the flags meta_key and
func_key) but in the input stream they can be encoded as escape
sequences (a series of bytes). Characters are values in byte
range, but in UTF-8 one character can consist of multiple bytes.
Also rename two variables, because the secondary input buffer
that they refer to contains only characters (mostly just one),
never any shortcuts; and there are too many "kbinput" already.
Also, other messages that are about --operatingdir don't use the term
"confined" either.
Suggested-by: Mario Blättermann <mario.blaettermann@gmail.com>
Don't make it the responsibility of the executed functions to restore
the list of shortcuts of the edit window. Just detect whether another
menu was displayed, and if so, redisplay the main menu.
The way to update nano.pot is to run 'make nano.pot-update' in the po
subdir. Updating a specific PO file is then done with 'make xx.po'.
(The script mistakenly included all leading comments, not just the
ones marked with "TRANSLATORS:".)
It sounded like an instigation to upgrade, or like a list of
instructions on how to upgrade. But it is merely a list of
noteworthy changes -- what other packages put in the NEWS file.
To add a character, one does not need to allocate twice its size.
And the amount to be moved does not depend on the size of the new
character; it just needs to include the terminating zero.
(This fixes in do_output() the same logical mistakes that were fixed
in do_statusbar_output() last February, in acf19bd and 7c0e433.)
Specifying an operating directory should either lead to a successfull
confinement, or nano should fail to start.
(Also: save the terminal settings as soon as possible, so that an early
die() will not restore uninitialized values.)
This fixes the first part of https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47798 properly.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48103.
(The fix is wasteful -- it should only discard the multidata if actually
the name *did* change, *and* if the applicable syntax changed.)
By moving the test for the only situation where do_comment() does nothing
(when only the magic line is selected) further up front, the add_undo()
can be called before the commenting/uncommenting starts and two variables
and an extra function are made unnecessary.
That is: don't mix the number of lines read with a warning about the
file being unwritable -- the former is just convenience information,
the latter is a must-see.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48047.
When running in a non-UTF locale, and when strncasecmp() suffers from
the same defect as strncmp(), make sure not to pass a length with the
high bit set.
This reverts commit df8c3de from six years ago, which prevented a crash
on the Armel/Maemo platforms but causes nano to lose history items.
The strncmp() function on those platforms treats size_t numbers with
the high bit set as if they were zero. To avoid that, use a number
that cannot be seen as negative, as suggested by <alpha@qzx.com>.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48048.
Tested-by: Tito Ragusa <farmatito@tiscali.it>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Store the file sizes from before and after the commenting/uncommenting
in the undo struct, so they can be restored when undoing or redoing.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48062.
Signed-off-by: Mike Scalora <mike@scalora.org>
When opening a file that was edited before, and the remembered position
is near the end of the file, then don't center the target line but show
the last line of the file on the bottom line of the screen, thus showing
as much of the file content as possible.
This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46243.
Instead of parsing every multibyte character twice, first with
parse_mbchar() and then with mbtowc(), just let mbtowc() do all
the work. This makes searching for a fixed string twice as fast.
This also gets rid of four variables and lots of memory allocations.
(And, more importantly: it stops nano messing up the internal state
of the multibyte-to-wide character conversion, and thus would make
the calls to mbtowc_reset() superfluous.)
This allows for commenting or uncommenting a line or a bunch of lines
with a single keystroke (default binding: M-3). The characters used
for commenting/uncommenting are specified by the active syntax file.
Reviewed-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Signed-off-by: Mike Scalora <mike@scalora.org>
Move the initialization of the operating directory to after the
initialization of the screen, so that the above error can be shown.
This fixes the first part of https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47798.
Between the first stat (that sets 'realexists') and the second stat
(directly after), the file might have disappeared, which would mean
that current_stat would be NULL. Prevent dereferencing this further
down.
Only when the user decides not to override an existing lockfile should
loading the corresponding file be skipped. Any failure to write the
lockfile should be ignored -- the file itself should be loaded anyway.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47945.
Error messages about lock files should not get overwritten by purely
informational messages, only by alerting ones.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47963.
The variable 'namecopy' has been passed to dirname(), so it is likely
to have been changed when it contains a slash. So, use a new variable
instead. Also, free the result of display_string().
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47956.
Having just opened a fresh buffer, 'openfile->next' will never be NULL,
because the list is circular.
Second, when compiled with --disable-nultibuffer, and deciding not to
override an existing lock, the 'return FALSE' should *not* be skipped,
because otherwise the named file will be opened after all.
This fixes an unreported bug.
Either the selected file was changed, or a file or directory was chosen
(and the Enter key virtually pressed), or a shortcut was executed. So,
just go and read the next key.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47944.
If during startup there are multiple error messages, currently only the
last one remains and can be read. To improve on that, introduce a short
pause between error messages -- even if it's not enough to read them all,
at least the user will be aware that there are multiple ones.
This also causes a few error messages to beep that currently don't beep,
such as when a file is unwritable.
When doing a PageUp or PageDown in the browser, don't move the highlight
to the first line in the same column, but keep it in the same relative
position of the screen. If we're already on the first or last page,
move the highlight to the first or last line, but keep it in the same
column. If we're already on the first or last line, only then move it
to the first or last entry.
CONST_UPDATE is only relevant when in the main menu, not when in the
browser. So, check for that condition, instead of saving, changing,
and then restoring the setting.
There is no need to iterate through all the file names, as we already
know the length of the longest. From this it's easy to calculate how
many names fit on a line.
Also rename some things to be more fitting. And make sure that something
will be selected even when many files, including the selected one, have
disappeared.
When refreshing the screen (and thus the file list), use the prev_dir
mechanism to reselect the file that was selected before the refresh,
to prevent the selection from changing when files were added or deleted.
Also, when the selected name has disappeared, move the highlight one step
back, so that it is obvious that the selection has changed. (Decrementing
'selected' will never make it negative, because selected == 0 means the
'..' entry, and every directory has a '..' entry, so it will be found.)
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47812.
Signed-off-by: Rishabh Dave <rishabhddave@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
When during searching we look at the keyboard, then don't look at
just the first keystroke, but check if there are more, and if so,
check each one until we find a Cancel -- or until all keystrokes
have been consumed and we can continue.
This fixes the first half of https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47438.
Cancelling a search should restore waiting mode for the keyboard,
just like at the other exit points of the search routine.
And when the input routine has read in multiple keystrokes, it
should not blindly switch back to waiting mode, but only when
that mode was on before.
This fixes the second half of https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47438.
When the terminal is very narrow, there is little point in showing only
part of the version string -- and chewing off one or two digits from the
version number might even give someone a wrong idea. The user is better
served with always showing the full filename, as long as it fits in the
available screen width.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47703.
Also remove the item about one Replacement Character per invalid UTF-8
sequence, because how many bytes form a sequence? Two? Three? Four?
Better just put one Replacement Character per invalid byte, like is
done now.
When fixing a misspelling and not answering 'All' (but 'Yes' or 'No'),
the chance is quite substantial that one will type y or n at the end of
the next word. Diminish this chance by showing for a moment a message
on the statusbar.
Partitioning the file makes the undo system lose track, so that undoing
things has a good chance of losing data. Instead, just make sure that
the region is marked "backwards", with current at the top and the mark
at the bottom, and then let the replace loop take care of not going
outside of the marked region.
This also has the effect that if the marked region fits entirely on the
screen, or all the misspellings are onscreen, then the screen will not
be scrolled at all. Which makes for a smooth experience.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47836,
and fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45573.
Since nano-2.4.1, reading in or pasting a large piece of text would put
the cursor on the bottom line, leaving only one line of the non-read or
non-pasted text visible. This is different from the centering behavior
of Pico, and somewhat disorienting, as you can't see "where you are" any
more in relation to the file as it was.
So now center the cursor whenever the read or pasted text is larger than
the screen, but don't center it when the text fits entirely on the screen.
(The latter avoids the effect of the screen jumping unnecessarily when
inserting just a few lines while the cursor is near the bottom.)
To achieve this behavior: default to focusing, and temporarily set it to
FALSE when the focusing effect is unwanted.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47841.
For some reason the keyboard code seems to assume that all integers
waiting in the keybuffer form a single sequence. But this isn't the
case: when there is an escape (0x1b) among them, then that is where
a new sequence starts. So, prevent the input code from considering
an escape after a non-escape as part of the current sequence.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47839.
When starting to replace misspelled words, pass the actual position
of the cursor instead of the position of the first found occurrence,
so that the cursor position will be updated for changed lengths.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47834.
When verifying that a match is a separate word (during spell checking),
instead of first copying out the word, then passing the word, and then
measuring its length, just pass its length straigtaway.
When we're spell checking, we don't need a special mechanism to detect
we have come full circle: reaching the end-of-buffer means we're done.
So don't bother to reset came_full_circle when we're spell checking
(when begin == NULL) but simply ignore its value.
Add a global variable, 'present_path', so that 'cwd_tab_completion()'
knows where the user is in the browser, so that it can try completions
against names in that directory instead of always against names in the
current working directory (where nano was invoked).
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47234.
Signed-off-by: Rishabh Dave <rishabhddave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
The internal spell checker starts searching/replacing always at the top
of the buffer, so reaching the end of the buffer means we're done with
the current search/replace. This prevents the "Search Wrapped" message
from flashing over the statusbar at the end of a spelling replacement.
Commit 8704dde mistakenly removed this part of code -- it is not dead,
it is just that it will only fire when the user answered No at some of
the replacement prompts. So... when we've rereached the starting line,
a found occurrence is invalid when it is beyond the starting x (either
after or before it, dependending on the direction of search).
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47816.
Included files are meant to contain only syntax definitions; they may
not set or unset options, nor rebind keys, nor include other files.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47391.
For a little contrast with the function edit_refresh() -- it's
annoying that when you search for the latter you get to see all
the settings of the flag too.
The function edit_update() is called by edit_refresh() itself, so it is
silly that the first sets 'edit_refresh_needed' to TRUE. This setting
is needed only in a few cases -- in the others it's not needed because
the screen does not need to be refreshed (it was just about positioning
the cursor), or 'edit_refresh_needed' has already been set by a call to
goto_line_posx(). So, just set the flag in the five places that need it
and spare the other four calls.
Since commit 41ed690, cancelling a prompt after tabbing would sometimes
leave the list of file names on the screen. When testing this first,
it worked fine -- I was fooled again by 'edit_refresh_needed' already
being TRUE when nano has just started up and sits waiting for the first
key stroke. I have to hunt this down and kill it.
Since commit dac0aa1, nano would leave edittop at current after reading
data from standard input, meaning that everything that had been read in
was invisible, "scrolled off" the top of the screen. Correct this by
explicitly setting edittop.
The above does not happen for ^R (^X) because it has a special mechanism
to save and restore edittop. Nor does it happen for ^R ^X M-F because it
sets current to the top of the file and refreshing the screen will make
edittop follow, or -- in case just one unterminated line was read in --
edittop will already be equal to current.
A normal lock file is apparently 1024 bytes in size, so the second
attempt at reading bytes from the file would try to read 8192 more
bytes into a buffer that has room for only 7168 left. According to
valgrind, the read() function doesn't like that -- and true: if for
some reason the lock file had suddenly expanded, the buffer would
overflow.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47156.
Commit 36ec76a made the wrong change: after a tab that did not list any
file names on the screen, a refresh /is/ needed, because a previous tab
might have listed things on the screen. But at the end of the prompt,
it is not necessary to refresh the edit window if things were listed,
because the window will be refreshed anyway after reading in a file.
Use 'slash' to point at a possible slash, use 'filename' just to
point at the real file name, and use 'wasdirname' just to point at
the dir's name before expanding it in order to be able to free it.
Also, remove two superfluous asserts: 'dirname' cannot be NULL
because it has just been mallocstrcpy'd, and checking 'num_matches'
is pointless as it would crash on the next statement anyway.
This is a remnant from 2001, when things were different. Now, there
is no need to refresh the edit window when tabbing produced no list.
When it did produce a list, it is cleared off later.
If for some reason opening the spell-checked or formatted file fails,
don't throw away the current contents of the buffer.
(It should also give proper feedback about the failure, but we'll leave
that for some other time.)
Also, store the input character earlier, so we don't have to use len - 1.
Furthermore, len increments in steps of 1, so it cannot pass the value of
bufx unnoticed, so use a comparison for equality.
Most of the time NO_CONVERT will not be set, the number of lines will
not be zero, and the format of the file will be zero. Rearrange the
conditions so that they will evaluate as FALSE as soon as possible.
Index i follows almost synchronously the value of len. Since we're
adding characters to the intermediate buffer always only at the end,
just use len as the index.
Until now (when not leaving files unconverted), nano would fumble and
drop the final carriage return of a Mac file, and would thus treat the
last line of such a file as an unterminated line and prepend it to the
current line of the buffer. Correct that, and delete the dead piece
of code that was meant to do this.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47716.
When we don't set edittop in read_line(), we don't need to readjust it in
read_file(), because in that particular case it will still be pointing at
current. And since fileptr is a new, freshly created line, it can never
be equal to filebot, so there is no point in comparing them.
If more than one line was inserted at the beginning of the file, leave it
up to the screen handling to set edittop to what it should be.
Move the setting of fileage a bit down, to its sister setting: the line
at current gets "connected" either to the top-of-file pointer or to the
last line of the inserted file.
The number of lines to scroll is: the y position of the start of the
current line, plus the extra lines that this line occupies, plus the
extra lines that the next line occupies, plus one, minus the y position
of the last window line.
The y position of the start of the current line is current_y -
xplustabs() / COLS, the extra lines are strlenpt(data) / COLS,
and the y position of the last window line is editwinrows - 1.
Note that we first compute the amount to scroll before actually moving
to the next line, because we need the current value of current_x, not
the one that it will have in the next line. The placewewant value is
not good either, because it might be beyond where we actually are.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47665.
Doing a chdir("..") will not fail when the root directory is reached,
and when getcwd() keeps failing too, we have no way of knowing when
to stop. So, simply limit the number of attempted chdirs, to avoid
getting into an endless loop.
This avoids the hang in https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?47659.
Reported-by: Chris Renshaw <osm0sis@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Also, don't force a full refresh of the edit window simply because the
current line needs to be horizontally scrolled. And further, when the
adjustment of edittop has determined that a full refresh is needed,
get out and don't bother scrolling some lines first.
When in softwrap mode and scrolling down a line, and thus going to
do a full refresh, get out and don't bother redrawing the current
and prior lines first.
When moving the cursor up or down one line, redraw the new current
line only when the target column (placewewant) is beyond the screen,
or when the mark is on.
(This still redraws the current and prior lines unnecessarily when
they are in fact shorter than the screen is wide and the mark is off,
but we'll let that pass for now.)
Also, when softwrap is on, we don't have have to redraw the current
and prior lines at all (when the mark is off): they are in full view,
there is nothing to show or hide.
When scrolling down a line, a full refresh of the edit window is only
needed when softwrap is on, because only then the movement is irregular.
When each file line takes up just one screen line (softwrap is off),
edit_scroll() is perfectly able to scroll and redraw only the necessary
lines.
(But... when doing a full refresh anyway with softwrap, why bother
scrolling at all? Why not just adjust edittop and call refresh?)
The old_current line needs to be redrawn only if it differs from current,
and if it wasn't drawn already by the iteration for when the mark is on.
Also make the conditions involving horizontal scrolling more precise.
Instead of saving the current value of placewewant, then setting the
new value, and then passing the old value to edit_redraw() in seven
different places, just let edit_redraw() do this saving and setting.
In the bargain placewewant is now only recalculated when it matters
-- when allow_update is TRUE -- and not when it's superfluous.
Nano doesn't start doing anything with the edit window or the keyboard
until all files have been read in or a blank buffer has been opened, so
the case of openfile->current == NULL will never occur.
Also correct the comment -- because with multibyte characters, it is
very well possible that the screen column corresponding to current_x
is smaller than current_x itself.
Instead of allocating a fixed amount of 128 bytes, which will overflow
and segfault, adjust the allocation to the length of the file name, and
if necessary trim the file name to make the prompt fit on the screen.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47511.
Reported-by: Aapo Rantalainen <aapo.rantalainen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
In the innermost search loop, don't set placewewant, because this loop
is also used for replacing and spell fixing, when we don't really want
to be there: we are just passing through. Not setting placewewant means
we don't need to save and restore it in those passing-through routines.
The value of placewewant is only relevant when doing cursor movement,
which doesn't happen during replacing nor spell checking, so there is
no need to keep placewewant up to date -- it is set when it matters:
at the end of go_looking().
Stop keeping track of the vertical screen position when searching for
something. If nothing is found, current_y doesn't change, and all the
incrementing/decrementing was a waste of time. If something is found
and it is onscreen, it is easy to calculate the new current_y. And if
something is found and it is offscreen, then current_y is irrelevant,
because we will be either centering the found occurrence (searching)
or putting it on the top or bottom line (bracket matching).
(The above does not take softwrapping into account, but neither did
the old code, so this doesn't introduce any new bugs.)
(Also, when the search wraps, and the viewport is away from head or
tail of the file, and the found occurrence is within the viewport,
then the incremented/decremented current_y would be way wrong, but
this didn't have any adverse effects as far as I could tell. It
seems that current_y is irrelevant in most cases.)
Add a third mode of scrolling, FLOWING, besides CENTERING and STATIONARY.
This is used for word and paragraph jumping (and for bracket matching,
but that worked correctly already), and only when focusing is FALSE.
The new mode prevents the screen from scrolling too many lines when
there are several blank lines at the bottom of the edit window and
the next word or paragraph is out of view.
This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47194.
On iTerm2 on OS X, the Option+Arrow keys produce special sequences
that start with two escapes. Catch these sequences and interpret
them appropriately as WordLeft / WordRight / Home / End.
Signed-off-by: Mike Scalora <mike@scalora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rosenau <thomasr@fantasymail.de>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
When finding a misspelled word, the length of the match is simply the
length of that word, and its span in columns is simply the number of
columns that it occupies. Compute it thus directly.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
When searching for a misspelled word takes a while, and the user
stops this search with ^C, then abort the spelling-checking session.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
that is taking too long. This fixes Savannah bug #47439.
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(The measurable effect (during long searches, for example) is zero, though.)
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an operating directory is not the same as restricted mode.
(In restricted mode, the file browser is not available at all.)
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invalid escape sequence, and when entering a verbatim keystroke.
But leaving the cursor off during Unicode input, for extra feedback.
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anyway, and it will be placed back when it's needed: in the main loop.
This prevents a segfault laid bare by r5763: when trying, at startup,
to open a directory, there really is no open buffer yet.
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variable for a little optimization.
Openfile can never be NULL -- it should have been called openbuffer, and
before we start fiddling with the cursor, we will always have an open buffer.
Edittop might be NULL, but that's okay.
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a misspelled word twice. And deleting the piece of dead code that was meant
to do this. This fixes Savannah bug #47188.
When we've reached again the same line where we started and we find an
instance there, then this can only be /before or at/ the position from
where we started, otherwise we would have found it when we commenced
searching. And so... that little piece of dead code does absolutely
nothing -- it will never fire.
It's so nice... nano is full of Easter Eggs! :)
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using it when it's available (which it is on OS X systems).
This completes the fix for Savannah bug #47325.
Patch by Thomas Rosenau.
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been set to 'answer' in search_init() when 'answer' isn't empty, and when
'answer' /is/ empty we use 'last_search' anyway.
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deletion of words like the pressing of Backspace/Delete, so they don't
overwrite the lines you cut elsewhere and want to paste into the place
of the cut words.
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and the next time a Search or Replace is run, this answer is overwritten
with an empty string.
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return with -2 when answer is empty, so when answer is empty
i cannot be zero.
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We will need this again when one day we make a toggle between
jumping to a directory and searching for a filename fragment,
just like the ^T toggle that exists in the Search / Go-to-line
menus. But for now, we don't need this.
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functions that could be executed -- other than the line-edition ones,
which are executed under do_prompt(). So the latter won't return
unless either it was cancelled or an answer was given. Also, if it
/had/ returned with a value bigger than zero, it tried to put back
the key sequence for do_gotolinecolumn_void(), which does not exist
in the MBROWSER menu, so this would not have done anything.
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the idea that it might have something to do with 'end_regex'.
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non-GNU systems. This is a partial fix for Savannah bug #47325.
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not for every added color, thus saving some 15 microseconds.
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a leading underscore as the only difference is not enough.
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comes first, so that a search can stop at the first match instead of always
having to run through the entire list.
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instead of the first syntax that matches a certain magic string
(forgotten in the previous commit).
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name given on the command line, not from the name of the target file.
This fixes Savannah bug #47307.
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an rcfile ends or when an invalid syntax command is found.
This fixes Savannah bug #47207
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to file extensions, but also to header lines and magic strings.
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the first element, and the insertion of a new element) directly.
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And not minding when the column number is zero or negative.
This partially fixes Savannah bug #47131.
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there is no need to put one in. Just trim the allocation.
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* Add ability to kill the trailing spaces when justifying
code. New nanorc option kill_spaces_on_wrap, we'll see
whether this warrants a command line flahg or not.
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(Note that openfile cannot be NULL here. And in case it is,
nano should crash because DEBUG is enabled.)
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when the first Tab added the part that all matches have in common.
So now two Tabs in a row will always show the list of possible
completions -- if there /are/ any completions. Which means that
a second Tab will either: 1) do nothing, when the name is complete
and exists; 2) beep, when nothing in the current directory starts
with the current string; 3) show the list of matches.
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instead of in the given string. This fixes Savannah bug #47199.
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history. This fixes Savannah bug #47124 reported by Mike Frysinger.
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This fixes Savannah bug #47129 reported by Mike Frysinger.
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and also when it is the first and only line.
This fixes Savannah bug #47153 reported by Mike Frysinger.
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because 'allow_cntrls == FALSE' meant that controls were being filtered.
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iteration through search matches: showing them centered when found offscreen.
This fixes Savannah bug #47127.
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needed), so that it no longer shows in the help screen nor in the file list.
This fixes Savannah bug #47126.
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<ahref="#2.4">2.4. By subversion (for the brave).</a></p></blockquote>
<h2><ahref="#3">3. Installation and Configuration</a></h2>
<blockquote><p><ahref="#3.1">3.1. How do I install the RPM or DEB package?</a><br>
<ahref="#2.4">2.4. By GIT (for the brave).</a>
</p></blockquote>
<h3><ahref="#3">3. Installation and Configuration</a></h3>
<blockquote><p>
<ahref="#3.1">3.1. How do I install the RPM or DEB package?</a><br>
<ahref="#3.2">3.2. Compiling from source: WHAT THE HECK DO I DO NOW?</a><br>
<ahref="#3.3">3.3. Why does everything go into /usr/local?</a><br>
<ahref="#3.5">3.5. nano should automatically run strip on the binary when installing it!</a><br>
@@ -29,49 +33,52 @@
<ahref="#3.7">3.7. Tell me more about this multibuffer stuff!</a><br>
<ahref="#3.8">3.8. Tell me more about this verbatim input stuff!</a><br>
<ahref="#3.9a">3.9a. How do I make a .nanorc file that nano will read when I start it?</a><br>
<ahref="#3.9b">3.9b. How about in Win32?</a></p></blockquote>
<h2><ahref="#4">4. Running</a></h2>
<blockquote><p><ahref="#4.1">4.1. How do I open a file with a name beginning with '+' from the command line?</a><br>
<ahref="#3.9b">3.9b. How about in Win32?</a>
</p></blockquote>
<h3><ahref="#4">4. Running</a></h3>
<blockquote><p>
<ahref="#4.1">4.1. How do I open a file with a name beginning with '+' from the command line?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.2">4.2. Ack! My Backspace/Delete/Enter/Meta/double bucky key doesn't seem to work! What can I do?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.3">4.3. Ack! My numeric keypad's keys don't work properly when NumLock is off! What can I do?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.4">4.4. Ack! When I hold down a Meta key combination for a while, the character of the held key gets inserted now and then. What gives?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.5">4.5. How do I type the F13-F16 keys shown in the help browser? My keyboard only has F1-F12!</a><br>
<ahref="#4.6">4.6. nano crashes when I type <insert keystroke here>!</a><br>
<ahref="#4.5">4.5. How do I type the F13-F16 keys listed in the help viewer? My keyboard only has F1-F12!</a><br>
<ahref="#4.6">4.6. nano crashes when I type <insert keystrokes here>!</a><br>
<ahref="#4.7">4.7. nano crashes when I resize my window. How can I fix that?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.8">4.8. [version 1.3.12 and later] I'm using glibc 2.2.3, and nano crashes when I use color support or do regular expression searches. How can I fix that?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.9">4.9. [version 1.1.12 and earlier] Why does nano show ^\ in the shortcut list instead of ^J?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.10a">4.10a. [version 1.1.12 and earlier] When I type in a search string, the string I last searched for is already in front of my cursor! What happened?!</a><br>
<ahref="#4.10b">4.10b. [version 1.1.99pre1 and later] Hey, the search string behavior has reverted, it's now like Pico, what happened to the consistency?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.11">4.11. How do I make nano my default editor (in Pine, mutt, etc.)?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.12">4.12. I've compiled nano with color support, but I don't see any color when I run it!</a><br>
<ahref="#4.13">4.13. How do I select text for or pastetext from the clipboard in an X terminal when I'm running nano in one and nano's mouse support is turned on?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.14">4.14. When I paste text into a document, each line gets indented further than the last. Why does nano do this, and how can I avoid it?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.15">4.15. On startup I get a message that says "Detected a legacy nano history file". Now oldernano versions can't find my search history!</a></p></blockquote>
<h2><ahref="#5">5. Internationalization</a></h2>
<blockquote><p><ahref="#5.1">5.1. There's no translation for my language!</a><br>
<ahref="#4.8a">4.8a. With what keystroke can I paste text from the clipboard into nano?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.8b">4.8b. When I paste text into a document, each line gets indented further than the last. Why? And how can I stop this?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.8c">4.8c. When I paste from Windows into a remote nano, nano rewraps the lines. What gives?<a><br>
<ahref="#4.9">4.9. I've compiled nano with color support, but I don't see any color when I run it!</a><br>
<ahref="#4.10">4.10. How do I make nano my default editor (in Pine, mutt, etc.)?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.11">4.11. How do I select text for or paste text from the clipboard in an X terminal when I'm running nano in one and nano's mouse support is turned on?</a><br>
<ahref="#4.12">4.12. On startup I get a message that says "Detected a legacy nano history file". Now older nano versions can't find my search history!</a>
</p></blockquote>
<h3><ahref="#5">5. Internationalization</a></h3>
<blockquote><p>
<ahref="#5.1">5.1. There's no translation for my language!</a><br>
<ahref="#5.2">5.2. I don't like the translation for <x> in my language. How can I fix it?</a><br>
<ahref="#5.3">5.3. What is the status of Unicode support?</a></p></blockquote>
<h2><ahref="#6">6. Advocacy and Licensing</a></h2>
<blockquote><p><ahref="#6.1">6.1. Why should I use nano instead of Pico?</a><br>
<ahref="#5.3">5.3. What is the status of Unicode support?</a>
</p></blockquote>
<h3><ahref="#6">6. Advocacy and Licensing</a></h3>
<blockquote><p>
<ahref="#6.1">6.1. Why should I use nano instead of Pico?</a><br>
<ahref="#6.2">6.2. Why should I use Pico instead of nano?</a><br>
<ahref="#6.3">6.3. What is so bad about the older Pine license?</a><br>
<ahref="#6.4">6.4. Okay, well, what mail program should I use then?</a></p></blockquote>
<ahref="#7.2">7.2. I want to send the development team a big load of cash (or just a thank you).</a><br>
<ahref="#7.3">7.3. How do I submit a bug report or patch?</a><br>
<ahref="#6.4">6.4. Okay, well, what mail program should I use then?</a>
</p></blockquote>
<h3><ahref="#7">7. Miscellaneous</a></h3>
<blockquote><p>
<ahref="#7.1">7.1. Where can I ask questions or send suggestions?</a><br>
<ahref="#7.2">7.2. How do I submit a bug report or patch?</a><br>
<ahref="#7.3">7.3. I want to send the development team a big load of cash (or just a thank you).</a><br>
<ahref="#7.4">7.4. How do I join the development team?</a><br>
<ahref="#7.5">7.5. Can I have write access to the subversion tree?</a></p></blockquote>
<h2><ahref="#8">8. ChangeLog</a></h2>
<ahref="#7.5">7.5. Can I have write access to the GIT tree?</a>
</p></blockquote>
<hrwidth="100%">
<h1><aname="1"></a>1. General</h1>
<h2><aname="1.1"></a>1.1 About this FAQ</h2>
<blockquote><p>This FAQ was originally written and maintained by Chris Allegretta <<ahref="mailto:chrisa@asty.org">chrisa@asty.org</a>>, who also happens to be the creator of nano. It was then maintained by David Lawrence Ramsey <<ahref="mailto:pooka109@gmail.com">pooka109@gmail.com</a>>. Maybe someone else will volunteer to maintain this FAQ someday, who knows...</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="1.2"></a>1.2. How do I contribute to it?</h2>
<blockquote><p>Your best bet is to send it to the nano email address, <ahref="mailto:nano@nano-editor.org">nano@nano-editor.org</a> and if it is useful enough it will be included in future versions.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="1.3"></a>1.3. What is GNU nano?</h2>
<blockquote><p>GNU nano is designed to be a free replacement for the Pico text editor, part of the Pine email suite from <ahref="http://www.washington.edu/pine/">The University of Washington</a>. It aims to "emulate Pico as closely as possible and perhaps include extra functionality".</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="1.4"></a>1.4. What is the history behind nano?</h2>
<h3><aname="1.1"></a>1.1. What is GNU nano?</h3>
<blockquote><p>GNU nano is designed to be a free replacement for the Pico text editor, part of the Pine email suite from <ahref="http://www.washington.edu/pine/">The University of Washington</a>. It aims to "emulate Pico as closely as possible and then include extra functionality".</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="1.2"></a>1.2. What is the history behind nano?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Funny you should ask!</p>
<p><b>In the beginning...</b></p>
<p>For years Pine was THE program used to read email on a Unix system. The Pico text editor is the portion of the program one would use to compose his or her mail messages. Many beginners to Unix flocked to Pico and Pine because of their well organized, easy to use interfaces. With the proliferation of GNU/Linux in the mid to late 90's, many University students became intimately familiar with the strengths (and weaknesses) of Pine and Pico.</p>
@@ -79,30 +86,32 @@
<p>The <ahref="http://www.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux</a> distribution, known for its strict standards in distributing truly "free" software (i.e. software with no restrictions on redistribution), would not include a binary package for Pine or Pico. Many people had a serious dilemma: they loved these programs, but the versions available at the time were not truly free software in the <ahref="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">GNU</a> sense of the word.</p>
<p><b>The event...</b></p>
<p>It was in late 1999 when Chris Allegretta (our hero) was yet again complaining to himself about the less-than-perfect license Pico was distributed under, the 1000 makefiles that came with it and how just a few small improvements could make it the Best Editor in the World (TM). Having been a convert from Slackware to Debian, he missed having a simple binary package that included Pine and Pico, and had grown tired of downloading them himself.</p>
<p>Finally something snapped inside and Chris coded and hacked like a madman for many hours straight one weekend to make a (barely usable) Pico clone, at the time called TIP (Tip Isn't Pico). The program could not be invoked without a filename, could not save files, had no help text display, spell checker, and so forth. But over time it improved, and with the help of a few great coders it matured to the (hopefully) stable state it is today.</p>
<p>Finally something snapped inside and Chris coded and hacked like a madman for many hours straight one weekend to make a (barely usable) Pico clone, at the time called TIP (Tip Isn't Pico). The program could not be invoked without a filename, could not save files, had no help text display, spell checker, and so forth. But over time it improved, and with the help of a few great coders it matured to the (hopefully) stable state it is in today.</p>
<p>In February 2001, nano was declared an official GNU program by Richard Stallman. nano also reached its first production release on March 22, 2001.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="1.5"></a>1.5. Why the name change from TIP?</h2>
<h3><aname="1.3"></a>1.3. Why the name change from TIP?</h3>
<blockquote><p>On January 10, 2000, TIP was officially renamed to nano because of a namespace conflict with another program called 'tip'. The original 'tip' program "establishes a full duplex terminal connection to a remote host", and was included with many older Unix systems (and newer ones like Solaris). The conflict was not noticed at first because there is no 'tip' utility included with most GNU/Linux distributions (where nano was developed).</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="1.6"></a>1.6. What is the current version of nano?</h2>
<blockquote><p>The current stable version of nano *should* be 2.4.2. Of course, you should always check the <ahref="http://www.nano-editor.org/">nano homepage</a> to see what the latest and greatest version is.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="1.7"></a>1.7. I want to read the man page without having to download the program!</h2>
<h3><aname="1.4"></a>1.4. What is the current version of nano?</h3>
<blockquote><p>The current version of nano <i>should</i> be <b>2.9.7</b>. Of course, you should always check the <ahref="https://nano-editor.org/">nano homepage</a> to see what the latest and greatest version is.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="1.5"></a>1.5. I want to read the man page without having to download the program!</h3>
<p>You can also have a look at the <ahref="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nano/">Package Pool</a> to see all the available binary and source packages.</p>
</blockquote>
<h2><aname="2.4"></a>2.4. By subversion (for the brave).</h2>
<blockquote><p>For the 'bleeding edge' current version of nano, you can use subversion to download the current source code. <b>Note:</b> believe it or not, by downloading code that has not yet stabilized into an official release, there could quite possibly be bugs, in fact the code may not even compile! Anyway, see <ahref="http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/nano/README.SVN?root=nano&view=markup">the nano SVN document</a> for info on anonymous SVN access to the nano source.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="2.4"></a>2.4. By GIT (for the brave).</h3>
<blockquote><p>For the 'bleeding edge' current version of nano, you can use GIT to download the current source code. <b>Note:</b> believe it or not, by downloading code that has not yet stabilized into an official release, there could quite possibly be bugs, in fact the code may not even compile! Anyway, see <ahref="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/tree/README.GIT">the nano GIT document</a> for info on anonymous GIT access to the nano source.</p></blockquote>
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<h1><aname="3"></a>3. Installation and Configuration</h1>
<h2><aname="3.1"></a>3.1. How do I install the RPM or DEB package?</h2>
<h3><aname="3.1"></a>3.1. How do I install the RPM or DEB package?</h3>
<blockquote><p>It's simple really! As root, type <b>rpm -Uvh nano-x.y.z-1.i386.rpm</b> if you have a RedHat-ish system or <b>dpkg -i nano_x.y.z-1.deb</b> if you have a Debian-ish system, where <b>x.y.z</b> is the release of nano. There are other programs to install packages, and if you wish to use those, knock yourself out.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="3.2"></a>3.2. Compiling from source: WHAT THE HECK DO I DO NOW?</h2>
<h3><aname="3.2"></a>3.2. Compiling from source: WHAT THE HECK DO I DO NOW?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Okay, take a deep breath, this really isn't hard. Unpack the nano source with a command like:</p>
<p><b>tar -xvf nano-x.y.z.tar.gz</b></p>
<p>Then you need to run <b>configure</b> with any options you might want (if any).</p>
@@ -126,76 +136,80 @@
<b>./configure</b><br>
<b>make</b><br>
<b>make install</b> (as root, of course)</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="3.3"></a>3.3. Why does everything go into /usr/local?</h2>
<h3><aname="3.3"></a>3.3. Why does everything go into /usr/local?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Well, that's what the <b>configure</b> script defaults to. If you wish to change this, simply do this:</p>
<p><b>./configure --prefix=/usr</b></p>
<p>to put nano into /usr/bin when you run <b>make install</b>.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="3.5"></a>3.5. nano should automatically run strip on the binary when installing it!</h2>
<h3><aname="3.5"></a>3.5. nano should automatically run strip on the binary when installing it!</h3>
<blockquote><p>Actually, it does, but you have to use <b>make install-strip</b>. The default make install does not, and will not, run strip automatically.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="3.6"></a>3.6. How can I make the executable smaller? This is too bloated!</h2>
<h3><aname="3.6"></a>3.6. How can I make the executable smaller? This is too bloated!</h3>
<blockquote><p>Actually, there are several parts of the editor that can be disabled. You can pass arguments to the <b>configure</b> script that disable certain features. Here's a brief list:</p>
<pre>
<b>--disable-browser</b> Disable the built-in file browser
<b>--disable-color</b> Disable color and syntax highlighting
<b>--disable-extra</b>Disable extra features (currently only an easter egg)
<b>--disable-help</b>Disable help functions
<b>--disable-comment</b> Disable the comment/uncomment function
<b>--disable-extra</b> Disable the easter egg
<b>--disable-help</b> Disable the built-in help texts
<b>--disable-histories</b> Disable the saving of search strings and cursor positions
<b>--disable-speller</b> Disable the spell-checker functions
<b>--disable-tabcomp</b> Disable the tab-completion functions
<b>--disable-wordcomp</b> Disable the word-completion function
<b>--disable-wrapping</b> Disable all hard-wrapping of text</pre>
<p>There's also the <b>--enable-tiny</b> option which disables everything above, as well as some larger chunks of the program (like the marker code that you use with Control-^ to select text). Also, if you know you aren't going to be using other languages you can use <b>--disable-nls</b> to disable internationalization and save a few K to a few dozen K depending on if you have locale support on your system. And finally there's always good old <b>strip</b> to strip all debugging code and code that exists in libraries on your system.</p>
<p>There's also the <b>--enable-tiny</b> option which disables everything above, as well as some larger chunks of the program (like the marker code that you use with Control-^ to select text). Also, if you know you aren't going to be using other languages, you can use <b>--disable-nls</b> to disable internationalization and save a few K to a few dozen K depending on whether you have locale support on your system. And finally, there's always good old <b>strip</b> to strip all debugging code and code that exists in libraries on your system.</p>
<p>With <b>--disable-wrapping-as-root</b> you can disable any hard-wrapping by default when the user is root, useful to prevent accidentally changing long lines in system configuration files.</p>
</blockquote>
<h2><aname="3.7"></a>3.7. Tell me more about this multibuffer stuff!</h2>
<blockquote><p>To use multiple file buffers, you must be using nano 1.1.0 or newer, and you must not have configured it with <b>--disable-multibuffer</b> nor with <b>--enable-tiny</b> (use <b>nano -V</b> to check the compilation options). Then when you want to insert a file into its own buffer instead of into the current file, just hit <b>Meta-F</b>, then insert the file as normal with<b>^R</b>. If you always want files to be loaded into their own buffers, use the <b>--multibuffer</b> or <b>-F</b> flag when you invoke nano.</p>
<p>You can move between the buffers you have open with the <b>Meta-<</b> and <b>Meta-></b> keys, or more easily with <b>Meta-,</b> and <b>Meta-.</b> (clear as mud, right? =-). When you have more than one file buffer open, the ^X shortcut will say "Close", instead of the normal "Exit" when only one buffer is open.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="3.8"></a>3.8. Tell me more about this verbatim input stuff!</h2>
<blockquote><p>To use verbatim input, you must be using nano 1.3.1 or newer. When you want to insert a literal character into the file you're editing, such as a control character that nano usually treats as a command, first press <b>Meta-V</b> (if you're not at a prompt, you'll get the message "Verbatim Input"), then press the key(s) that generate the character you want.</p>
<p>Alternatively, if you've enabled Unicode support (see section <ahref="#5.3">5.3</a>), you can press <b>Meta-V</b> and then type a six-digit hexadecimal code (from 000000 to 10FFFF, case-insensitive), and the character with the corresponding value will be inserted instead. The prompt will change to "Unicode Input" when you do this.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="3.9a"></a>3.9a. How do I make a .nanorc file that nano will read when I start it?</h2>
<blockquote><p>It's not hard at all! But, your version of nano must <b>not</b> have been compiled with <b>--disable-nanorc</b>, and must be version 1.1.12 or newer (use nano -V to check your version and compiled features). Then simply copy the <b>nanorc.sample</b> that came with the nano source or your nano package (most likely in /usr/doc/nano) to .nanorc in your home directory. If you didn't get one, the syntax is simple. Flags are turned on and off by using the words <b>set</b> and <b>unset</b> plus the long option name for the feature. For example, "set nowrap" or "set smarthome".</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="3.9b"></a>3.9b. How about in Win32?</h2>
<h3><aname="3.7"></a>3.7. Tell me more about this multibuffer stuff!</h3>
<blockquote><p>To use multiple file buffers, you must not have configured nano with <b>--disable-multibuffer</b> nor with <b>--enable-tiny</b> (use <b>nano -V</b> to check the compilation options). Then when you want to insert a file into its own buffer instead of into the current file, just hit <b>Meta-F</b> after typing<b>^R</b>. If you always want files to be loaded into their own buffers, use the <b>-F</b> or <b>--multibuffer</b> flag when you invoke nano, or add <b>set multibuffer</b> to your .nanorc file.</p>
<p>You can move between the buffers you have open with the <b>Meta-<</b> and <b>Meta-></b> keys, or more easily without holding Shift:<b>Meta-,</b> and <b>Meta-.</b> (clear as mud, right? =-). When you have more than one buffer open, the ^X shortcut will say "Close", instead of "Exit".</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="3.8"></a>3.8. Tell me more about this verbatim input stuff!</h3>
<blockquote><p>When you want to insert a literal character into the file you're editing, such as a control character that nano usually treats as a command, first press <b>Meta-V</b> (if you're not at a prompt, you'll get the message "Verbatim Input" on the status bar), then press the key(s) that generate the character you want.</p>
<p>Alternatively, if Unicode support is enabled (see section <ahref="#5.3">5.3</a>), you can press <b>Meta-V</b> and then type a six-digit hexadecimal code (from 000000 to 10FFFF, case-insensitive), and the character with the corresponding value will be inserted. The status bar will change to "Unicode Input: ......" when you do this.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="3.9a"></a>3.9a. How do I make a .nanorc file that will be read when I start nano?</h3>
<blockquote><p>It's not hard at all! But, your nano must <b>not</b> have been compiled with <b>--disable-nanorc</b>. Then simply copy the <b>sample.nanorc</b> that came with the nano source or your nano package (most likely in /usr/doc/nano) to .nanorc in your home directory. If you didn't get one, the syntax of the file is simple. Flags are turned on and off by using the words <b>set</b> and <b>unset</b> plus the long option name for the feature. For example, "set nowrap" or "set smarthome".</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="3.9b"></a>3.9b. How about in Win32?</h3>
<blockquote><p>If you're using the official nano .zip file and have extracted all the files, you should take the file nano.rc and place it somewhere on your Win32 system (for example, if you have write permission to do so, at the top of C:\). Then you must create an Environment variable called HOME which points to the directory where you put nano.rc. In Windows XP, you can get to Environment variables by right-clicking "My Computer" either on the desktop or in the Start Menu, and selecting Properties. This should bring up the System Properties panel. Then click the Advanced Tab, and there should be a button called Environment Variables. Click that to bring up the Environment Variables section. Now, under User Variables you should be able to click the New button, and make a new Variables Name called HOME, with the Variable Value of whatever path you copied nano.rc into (just the directory name; don't add nano.rc onto the end).</p>
<p>We're still working on documentation for enabling syntax highlighting on Win32; please bear with us.</p>
<p>Note that the nano.rc file must remain Unix-formatted in order for nano to understand it. In other words, you should probably use only nano to edit its config file. Other programs like Wordpad and Notepad will convert the file to DOS format when saving, and the latter does not even properly read Unix-formatted files to begin with.</p></blockquote>
<p>We're still working on documentation for enabling syntax highlighting on Win32; please bear with us.</p>
<p>Note that the nano.rc file must remain Unix-formatted in order for nano to understand it. In other words, you should probably use only nano to edit its config file. Other programs like Wordpad and Notepad will convert the file to DOS format when saving, and the latter does not even properly read Unix-formatted files to begin with.</p></blockquote>
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<h1><aname="4"></a>4. Running</h1>
<h2><aname="4.1"></a>4.1. How do I open a file with a name beginning with '+' from the command line?</h2>
<h3><aname="4.1"></a>4.1. How do I open a file with a name beginning with '+' from the command line?</h3>
<blockquote><p>If a command-line option that begins with '+' is followed by another option, the former is always treated as a starting line and column number, and the latter is always treated as a filename. If a command-line option that begins with '+' isn't followed by another option, it's always treated as a filename. Examples:</p>
<p>To open '+filename.txt' starting on line 1: <b>nano +filename.txt</b><br>
To open '+filename.txt' starting on line 10: <b>nano +10 +filename.txt</b><br>
To open '+filename.txt' starting on line 1, column 20: <b>nano +,20 +filename.txt</b><br>
To open '+filename.txt' starting on line 10, column 20: <b>nano +10,20 +filename.txt</b><br>
To open '+filename.txt' starting on line 1 and 'filename.txt' starting on line 40 (if nano has been compiled with multibuffer support): <b>nano +1 +filename.txt +40 filename.txt</b></p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.2"></a>4.2. Ack! My Backspace/Delete/Enter/Meta/double bucky key doesn't seem to work! What can I do?</h2>
<h3><aname="4.2"></a>4.2. Ack! My Backspace/Delete/Enter/Meta/double bucky key doesn't seem to work! What can I do?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Try setting your $TERM variable to 'vt100'. nano doesn't yet support every term entry under the sun.</p>
<p>Bourne shell users (bash and sh): <b>export TERM=vt100</b><br>
C Shell users (tcsh and csh): <b>setenv TERM vt100</b></p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.3"></a>4.3. Ack! My numeric keypad's keys don't work properly when NumLock is off! What can I do?</h2>
<h3><aname="4.3"></a>4.3. Ack! My numeric keypad's keys don't work properly when NumLock is off! What can I do?</h3>
<blockquote><p>You can use the <b>-K</b> or <b>--rebindkeypad</b> option on the command line, or add the line <b>set rebindkeypad</b> to your .nanorc. However, nano's mouse support won't work properly if you do any of these things.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.4"></a>4.4. Ack! When I hold down a Meta key combination for a while, the character of the held key gets inserted now and then. What gives?</h2>
<blockquote><p>This is a bug in the terminal, not in nano. When a key is repeating faster than nano can process it, the keyboard buffer becomes full and starts dropping incoming keystrokes. Unfortunately, it doesn't just drop whole keystrokes; it can also drop parts of multibyte key combinations, resulting in nano's receiving a wrong key.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.5"></a>4.5. How do I type the F13-F16 keys shown in the help browser? My keyboard only has F1-F12!</h2>
<h3><aname="4.4"></a>4.4. Ack! When I hold down a Meta key combination for a while, the character of the held key gets inserted now and then. What gives?</h3>
<blockquote><p>This was a bug in how nano handled consecutive escape sequences. It should be fixed since version 2.6.0.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="4.5"></a>4.5. How do I type the F13-F16 keys listed in the help viewer? My keyboard only has F1-F12!</h3>
<blockquote><p>It depends on the terminal type you're using. On some terminals, such as the FreeBSD console, xterm, konsole, and gnome-terminal, Shift-F1 to Shift-F4 will generate F13 to F16. On other terminals, such as the Linux console, rxvt, and Eterm, Shift-F3 to Shift-F6 will generate F13 to F16.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.6"></a>4.6. nano crashes when I type <insert keystroke here>!</h2>
<h3><aname="4.6"></a>4.6. nano crashes when I type <insert keystrokes here>!</h3>
<blockquote><p>If you aren't trying some bizarre keystroke combination with some bizarre $TERM entry, chances are you have found a bug. You are welcome to submit it to the <ahref="mailto:nano-devel@gnu.org">nano-devel</a> list or in the <ahref="https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano">bug tracker</a> on Savannah.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.7"></a>4.7. nano crashes when I resize my window. How can I fix that?</h2>
<blockquote><p>Older versions of nano had this problem, please upgrade to a newer version (at least 0.9.9, but 2.4.2 is recommended).</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.8"></a>4.8. [version 1.3.12 and later] I'm using glibc 2.2.3, and nano crashes when I use color support or do regular expression searches. How can I fix that?</h2>
<blockquote><p>It's a bug in glibc 2.2.3. You should upgrade to at least glibc 2.2.4.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.9"></a>4.9. [version 1.1.12 and earlier] Why does nano show ^\ in the shortcut list instead of ^J?</h2>
<blockquote><p>The help (^G) and justify (^J) functions were among the last to be written. To show the improvements that nano had over Pico (go to line number, and replace), ^_ and ^\ were put on the shortcut list. Later, ^G came back in place of ^_ as it proved to be very valuable for new Unix users.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.10a"></a>4.10a. [version 1.1.12 and earlier] When I type in a search string, the string I last searched for is already in front of my cursor! What happened?!</h2>
<blockquote><p>Since nano version 0.9.20, the default was to have a completely consistent user interface across all user input functions. This means that regardless of whether you're being asked for a filename to insert or write, or a string to search for, the previous value is already inserted before the cursor.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.10b"></a>4.10b. [version 1.1.99pre1 and later] Hey, the search string behavior has reverted, it's now like Pico, what happened to the consistency?</h2>
<blockquote><p>It was decided that consistency was nice, but people are used to Pico's inconsistent behavior. Also, in version 1.1.99pre1, search and replace history was introduced. If you wish to edit your previous search/replace entry (or any previous entry), you can do so by hitting the up arrow to cycle through your history. This method allows the best of both worlds: You don't need to erase the previous string if you want to enter a new one, but you can with one keystroke recall previous entries for editing. Therefore there is now no "Pico mode", nano is and has always been a Pico <b>clone</b>, and clones by default should be compatible.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.11"></a>4.11. How do I make nano my default editor (in Pine, mutt, etc.)?</h2>
<h3><aname="4.7"></a>4.7. nano crashes when I resize my window. How can I fix that?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Older versions of nano had this problem. Please upgrade to version 2.7.0 or newer.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="4.8a"></a>4.8a. With what keystroke can I paste text from the clipboard into nano?</h3>
<blockquote><p>In most desktop environments <b>Shift+Insert</b> will paste the contents of the clipboard.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="4.8b"></a>4.8b. When I paste text into a document, each line gets indented further than the last. Why? And how can I stop this?</h3>
<blockquote><p>You have the<i>autoindent</i> feature turned on. Hit <b>Meta-I</b> to turn it off, paste your text, and then hit <b>Meta-I</b> again to turn it back on.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="4.8c"></a>4.8c. When I paste from Windows into a remote nano, nano rewraps the lines. What gives?</h3>
<blockquote><p>When pasting from Windows, in some situations linefeeds are sent instead of carriage returns (Enters). And linefeeds are <b>^J</b>s, which make nano justify (rewrap) the current paragraph. To prevent these linefeeds from causing these unwanted justifications, add this line to your .nanorc on the remote Linux box: <b>unbind ^J main</b> or <b>bind ^J enter main</b>, depending on whether the paste contains CR + LF or only LF.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="4.9"></a>4.9. I've compiled nano with color support, but I don't see any color when I run it!</h3>
<blockquote><p>If you want nano to actually use color, you have to specify the color configurations you want it to use in your .nanorc. Several example configurations are in the <b>syntax/</b> subdirectory of the nano source, which are normally installed to <b>/usr/local/share/nano/</b>. To enable all of them, uncomment the line <b># include "/usr/local/share/nano/*.nanorc"</b> in your nanorc. See also section <ahref="#3.9a">3.9a</a>.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="4.10"></a>4.10. How do I make nano my default editor (in Pine, mutt, etc.)?</h3>
<blockquote><p>You need to make nano your $EDITOR. If you want this to be saved, you should put a line like this in your <b>.bashrc</b> if you use bash (or <b>.zshrc</b> if you believe in zsh):</p>
<p><b>export EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/nano</b></p>
<p>or, if you use tcsh, put this in your <b>.cshrc</b> file:</p>
@@ -208,124 +222,55 @@
<p>If you're a mutt user, you should see an effect immediately the next time you log in. No further configuration is needed. However, if you want to let people know you use nano to compose your email messages, you can put a line like this in your <b>.muttrc</b>:</p>
<p><b>my_hdr X-Composer: nano x.y.z</b></p>
<p>Again, replace x.y.z with the version of nano you use.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.12"></a>4.12. I've compiled nano with color support, but I don't see any color when I run it!</h2>
<blockquote><p>If you want nano to actually use color, you have to specify the color configurations you want it to use in your .nanorc. Several example configurations are in the <b>doc/syntax</b> subdirectory of the nano source, which are normally installed to <b>/usr/local/share/nano</b>. To enable all of them, uncomment the line <b># include "/usr/local/share/nano/*.nanorc"</b> in your nanorc. See also section <ahref="#3.9a">3.9a</a>.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.13"></a>4.13. How do I select text for or paste text from the clipboard in an X terminal when I'm running nano in one and nano's mouse support is turned on?</h2>
<h3><aname="4.11"></a>4.11. How do I select text for or paste text from the clipboard in an X terminal when I'm running nano in one and nano's mouse support is turned on?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Try holding down the Shift key and selecting or pasting the text as you normally would.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.14"></a>4.14. When I paste text into a document, each line gets indented further than the last. Why does nano do this, and how can I avoid it?</h2>
<blockquote><p>You have the autoindent feature turned on. Hit Meta-I to turn it off, paste your text, and then hit Meta-I again to turn it back on.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="4.15"></a>4.15. On startup I get a message that says "Detected a legacy nano history file". Now older nano versions can't find my search history!</h2>
<blockquote><p>In nano 2.3.0, cursor-position history was introduced, and both history files now reside under a .nano directory in your home. nano was trying to move this file into the new location so it could continue to use it. This means that if you try and use an earlier version of nano, it will be unable to see your current search history. To fix this, run the following commands:<br>
<h3><aname="4.12"></a>4.12. On startup I get a message that says "Detected a legacy nano history file". Now older nano versions can't find my search history!</h3>
<blockquote><p>In nano 2.3.0, cursor-position history was introduced, and both history files now reside in a .nano subdirectory in your home directory. A newer nano will move an existing search-history file to this new location so it can continue to be used. This means that if you then try and use an earlier version of nano, it will be unable to see your current search history. To fix this, run the following command:</p>
<p>The "migration service" (moving the search-history file to its new location) has been deleted from nano in late 2017, since version 2.9.0. The search-history and position-history files will now be looked for first in ~/.nano/ and, when not found there, then in ~/.local/share/nano/.</p></blockquote>
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<h1><aname="5"></a>5. Internationalization</h1>
<h2><aname="5.1"></a>5.1. There's no translation for my language!</h2>
<blockquote><p>On June of 2001, GNU nano entered the <ahref="http://translationproject.org/html/welcome.html">Translation Project</a> and since then, translations should be managed from there.</p>
<h3><aname="5.1"></a>5.1. There's no translation for my language!</h3>
<blockquote><p>In June 2001, GNU nano entered the <ahref="http://translationproject.org/html/welcome.html">Translation Project</a> and since then, translations should be managed from there.</p>
<p>If there isn't a translation for your language, you could ask <ahref="http://translationproject.org/team/">your language team</a> to translate nano, or better still, join that team and do it yourself. Joining a team is easy. You just need to ask the team leader to add you, and then send a <ahref="http://translationproject.org/disclaim.txt">translation disclaimer to the FSF</a> (this is necessary as nano is an official GNU package, but it does <b>not</b> mean that you transfer the rights of your work to the FSF, it's just so the FSF can legally manage them).</p>
<p>In any case, translating nano is very easy. Just grab the latest <b>nano.pot</b> file listed on <ahref="http://translationproject.org/domain/nano.html">nano's page</a> at the TP, and translate each <b>msgid</b> line into your native language on the <b>msgstr</b> line. When you're done, you should send it to the TP's central po repository.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="5.2"></a>5.2. I don't like the translation for <x> in my language. How can I fix it?</h2>
<blockquote><p>The best way would probably be to send an e-mail to the team's mailing listed mentione in the <code>Language-Team:</code> field in the <b><your_language>.po</b> file with your suggested corrections, and then they can make the changes reach the nano-devel list.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="5.3"></a>5.3. What is the status of Unicode support?</h2>
<blockquote><p>In version 1.3.12 or later, Unicode should be usable. With your terminal, locale (LC_ALL and similar environment variables), and encoding configured to properly support UTF-8, you should be able to enter and save Unicode text.</p></blockquote>
<p>In any case, translating nano is easy. Just grab the latest <b>nano.pot</b> file listed on <ahref="http://translationproject.org/domain/nano.html">nano's page</a> at the TP, and translate each <b>msgid</b> line into your native language on the <b>msgstr</b> line. When you're done, you should send it to the TP's central PO-file repository.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="5.2"></a>5.2. I don't like the translation for <x> in my language. How can I fix it?</h3>
<blockquote><p>The best way is to send an e-mail with your suggested corrections to the team's mailing list. The address is mentioned in the <code>Language-Team:</code> field in the relevant PO file. The team leader or the assigned translator can then make the changes reach the nano-devel list.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="5.3"></a>5.3. What is the status of Unicode support?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Unicode should be fully usable nowadays. When the encoding of your terminal is set to UTF-8, and your locale (mainly the LANG environment variable) is UTF-8 too, then you should be able to read, enter and save Unicode text.</p></blockquote>
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<h1><aname="6"></a>6. Advocacy and Licensing</h1>
<h2><aname="6.1"></a>6.1. Why should I use nano instead of Pico?</h2>
<blockquote><p>There are many reasons to use nano instead of Pico. A more complete list can be found at the <ahref="http://www.nano-editor.org/">nano homepage</a>.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="6.2"></a>6.2. Why should I use Pico instead of nano?</h2>
<blockquote><p>Again, check out the <ahref="http://www.nano-editor.org/">nano homepage</a> for a good summary of reasons. It really is a matter of personal preference as to which editor you should use. If you're the type of person who likes using the original version of a program, then Pico is the editor for you. If you don't mind sacrificing mailer integration with Pine, and are looking for a few more features, as well as a 'better' license in terms of adding your own changes, nano is the way to go.</p><p>Note that the last of these no longer applies to the new version of Pine, <ahref="http://www.washington.edu/alpine/">Alpine</a>, which is under the Apache License, version 2.0.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="6.3"></a>6.3. What is so bad about the older Pine license?</h2>
<h3><aname="6.1"></a>6.1. Why should I use nano instead of Pico?</h3>
<blockquote><p>There are many reasons to use nano instead of Pico. A more complete list can be found at the <ahref="https://nano-editor.org/">nano homepage</a>.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="6.2"></a>6.2. Why should I use Pico instead of nano?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Again, check out the <ahref="https://nano-editor.org/">nano homepage</a> for a good summary of reasons. It really is a matter of personal preference as to which editor you should use. If you're the type of person who likes using the original version of a program, then Pico is the editor for you. If you don't mind sacrificing mailer integration with Pine, and are looking for a few more features, as well as a 'better' license in terms of adding your own changes, nano is the way to go.</p>
<p>Note that the last of these no longer applies to the new version of Pine, <ahref="http://www.washington.edu/alpine/">Alpine</a>, which is under the Apache License, version 2.0.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="6.3"></a>6.3. What is so bad about the older Pine license?</h3>
<blockquote><p>The U of W license for older versions of Pine and Pico is not considered truly Free Software according to both the Free Software Foundation and the <ahref="http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines">Debian Free Software Guidelines</a>. The main problem regards the limitations on distributing derived works: according to UW, you can distribute their software, and you can modify it, but you can not do both, i.e. distribute modified binaries.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="6.4"></a>6.4. Okay, well, what mail program should I use then?</h2>
<blockquote><p>If you are looking to use a Free Software program similar to Pine, and Emacs is not your thing, you should definitely take a look at <ahref="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a>. It is a full-screen, console based mail program that actually has a lot more flexibility than Pine, but has a keymap included in the distribution that allows you to use the same keystrokes as Pine would to send and receive mail. It's also under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0.<P>
Of course, due to the license change you can now use the <AHREF="http://www.washington.edu/alpine/">Alpine distribution</A> of PINE as it is now considered Free Software, but you would be sacrificing many of nano's features to do so.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="6.4"></a>6.4. Okay, well, what mail program should I use then?</h3>
<blockquote><p>If you are looking to use a Free Software program similar to Pine, and Emacs is not your thing, you should definitely take a look at <ahref="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a>. It is a full-screen, console based mail program that actually has a lot more flexibility than Pine, but has a keymap included in the distribution that allows you to use the same keystrokes as Pine would to send and receive mail. It's also under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0.</p>
<p>Of course, due to the license change you can now use the <ahref="http://www.washington.edu/alpine/">Alpine distribution</a> of PINE as it is now considered Free Software, but you would be sacrificing many of nano's features to do so.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="7.1"></a>7.1. Where can I ask questions or send suggestions?</h3>
<blockquote><p>There are three mailing lists for nano hosted at <ahref="http://savannah.gnu.org/">Savannah</a>: info-nano, help-nano and nano-devel. info-nano is a very low traffic list where new versions of nano are announced (surprise!). help-nano is for getting help with the editor without needing to hear all of the development issues surrounding it. nano-devel is a normally low, sometimes high traffic list for discussing the present and future development of nano. Here are links to where you can sign up for a given list:</p>
<h2><aname="7.2"></a>7.2. I want to send the development team a big load of cash (or just a thank you).</h2>
<blockquote><p>That's fine. Send it <ahref="mailto:nano-devel@gnu.org">our way</a>! Better yet, fix a <ahref="https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano">bug</a> in the program or implement a <ahref="http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.3/TODO">cool feature</a> and send us that instead (though cash is fine too).</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="7.3"></a>7.3. How do I submit a bug report or patch?</h2>
<h3><aname="7.2"></a>7.3. How do I submit a bug report or patch?</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>The best place to submit bugs is to the <ahref="https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano">Savannah bug tracker</a> as you can check whether the bug you are submitting has already been submitted.
<p>Please submit patches for nano via the <ahref="https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=nano">Savannah project's patch manager</a> for the nano project.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="7.4"></a>7.4. How do I join the development team?</h2>
<blockquote><p>The easiest way is to consistently send in good patches that add some needed functionality, fix a bug or two, and/or make the program more optimized/efficient. Then ask nicely and you will probably be added to the Savannah development list and be given SVN write access after a while. There is a lot of responsibility that goes along with being a team member, so don't think it's just something to add to your resume.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="7.5"></a>7.5. Can I have write access to the subversion tree?</h2>
<blockquote><p>Re-read Section <ahref="#7.4">7.4</a> and you should know the answer.</p></blockquote>
<h2><aname="8"></a>8. ChangeLog</h2>
<blockquote><p>
2015/07/18 - More small fixes and updates. (Benno)<br>
2014/04/24 - A bunch of small fixes and updates. (Benno)<br>
2009/11/30 - Update various bits for nano 2.2.x. (DLR)<br>
2009/11/18 - Typo fix. (j.mader@gmail.com)<br>
2008/03/16 - Update docs to refer to subversion instead of CVS, add more words about Alpine, and refer to Savannah for bugs and patches. (chrisa)<br>
2007/12/09 - Add minor punctuation and wording fixes, and update various sections to account for Alpine. (DLR)<br>
2007/08/26 - Update links to the Free Translation Project. (DLR)<br>
2007/07/29 - Update RPM links for nano 2.0.x. (DLR)<br>
2007/04/18 - Add a new section 4.14 to explain how autoindent affects pasted text. (John M. Gabriele, minor tweaks by DLR)<br>
2007/04/04 - Update email address. (DLR)<br>
2007/01/01 - Update section 4.1 to describe how to open files with names beginning with '+' at specified columns as well as lines. (DLR)<br>
2006/11/25 - Add miscellaneous wording and capitalization fixes. (DLR)<br>
2006/10/28 - Update various links for the 2.0 branch of nano. (DLR)<br>
2006/10/06 - Update the question in section 4.13 to match the version of it in the answer section. (DLR)<br>
2006/07/25 - Update section 5.3 again to not state "the latest development version" before 1.3.12, as it's no longer accurate. Also add some minor spacing fixes. (DLR)<br>
2006/06/12 - Update section 5.3, due to the display fix for two-column Unicode characters. (DLR)<br>
2006/06/05 - Add a new section 4.8, and move all section 4 entries after it down one number, to explain how to deal with glibc 2.2.3's crashes involving extended regular expressions. (DLR)<br>
2006/06/04 - Add minor punctuation, wording, and typo fixes. (DLR)<br>
2006/05/27 - Update section 3.8 to mention the new "Unicode Input" prompt, and how Unicode input only works when Unicode support is enabled. (DLR)<br>
2006/05/12 - Remove section 4.4, and move all section 4 entries after it up one number, since it no longer applies. Meta-] and Meta-[ are no longer used to indent and unindent marked text, since they require that the bracket matching key change to Ctrl-], which is used as the telnet escape key (found by Chris). Also, make the link to the nano CVS page a bit more readable. (DLR)<br>
2006/05/08 - Add a new section 4.5, and move all section 4 entries after it down one number, to explain a problem that can occur when holding down keys to generate Meta sequences. Also add a few more capitalization and wording fixes. (Benno Schulenberg, minor tweaks by DLR)<br>
2006/05/01 - Add a new section 4.4, and move all section 4 entries after it down one number, to explain how to deal with problems typing Meta-[. Also add a few capitalization and wording fixes. (DLR)<br>
2006/04/14 - Clarify section 1.4: help menu -> help text display. (DLR, suggested by Benno Schulenberg)<br>
2006/03/16 - Update the Free Translation Project's address, change the character set to UTF-8, and remove broken links to contributed RedHat nano packages. (DLR)<br>
2005/11/21 - Clarify section 5.3 to better explain how to enable Unicode support, and remove the mention of quirks, since they turned out to not be a nano problem. (Mike Frysinger and DLR)<br>
2005/11/19 - Add a new section 5.3 to explain the status of nano's Unicode support. (Mike Frysinger, minor tweaks by DLR)<br>
2005/08/27 - Update email address. (DLR)<br>
2005/08/10 - Add a new section 4.3, and move all section 4 entries after it down one number, to explain how to deal with numeric keypad problems. (DLR)<br>
2005/08/08 - Update section 3.8 to mention that verbatim input mode now takes a six-digit hexadecimal number. (DLR)<br>
2005/07/04 - Update section 4.10 to mention that pasting from the X clipboard via the middle mouse button also works when the Shift key is used. (DLR)<br>
2005/06/15 - Update description of --enable-extra, and add missing line breaks. (DLR)<br>
2005/06/13 - Minor capitalization and wording fixes. (DLR)<br>
2005/06/08 - Updated section 1.1 to mention the current maintainer. (DLR)<br>
2005/03/09 - Added question about opening files with names beginning with '+'s, and added a few more miscellaneous cosmetic fixes. (DLR)<br>
2005/01/03 - Removed now-inaccurate note about verbatim input's not working at prompts, and update its description to mention that it handles hexadecimal values now. (DLR)<br>
2004/11/21 - Listed sh as an example of a Bourne shell. (DLR)<br>
2004/11/05 - Fixed inaccuracy: Pico compatibility mode was made the default in nano 1.1.99pre1, not 1.2.2. Also added question about how to type F13-F16 on terminals lacking keys past F12 (suggested by Chris), question about how to select text for the clipboard in X terminals with nano's mouse support turned on (answer found by Joseph Birthisel), and misc. fixes and link updates. (DLR)<br>
2004/04/07 - Removed NumLock glitch question, as it's no longer needed. (DLR)<br>
2004/01/30 - Fixed inaccuracy: multibuffer mode was first in nano 1.1.0, not 1.1.12. (DLR)<br>
2003/12/31 - Added question about the new verbatim input function, and a few minor fixes. Removed reference to "set pico" (DLR).<br>
2003/07/02 - Added question about nano's not showing color when it's compiled with color support (DLR; suggested by Jordi).<br>
2003/02/23 - Updated RPM links for nano 1.2.x (DLR).<br>
2003/01/16 - Split section 4.5 into 4.5a and 4.5b for search string behavior. Added --enable-all docs.<br>
2002/12/28 - More misc. fixes (David Benbennick, DLR).<br>
2002/10/25 - Misc. fixes and link updates (DLR).<br>
2002/09/10 - Another typo fix (DLR).<br>
2002/05/15 - Typo fix (DLR).<br>
2001/12/26 - Misc. fixes (Aaron S. Hawley, DLR).<br>
2001/10/02 - Update for Free Translation Project.<br>
2000/11/28 - Added blurb about make install-strip.<br>
2000/11/19 - Changed Debian frozen to stable.<br>
2000/11/18 - Previous string display (4.5).<br>
2000/09/27 - Moved addresses to nano-editor.org.<br>
2000/06/31 - Initial framework.</p></blockquote>
<p>$Id$</p>
<p>The best way to submit bugs is through the <ahref="https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano">Savannah bug tracker</a>, as you can check whether the bug you are reporting has already been submitted, and it makes it easier for the maintainers to keep track of them.
<p>You can submit patches for nano via <ahref="https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=nano">Savannah's patch manager</a>.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="7.3"></a>7.3. I want to send the development team a big load of cash (or just a thank you).</h3>
<blockquote><p>That's fine. Send it <ahref="mailto:nano-devel@gnu.org">our way</a>! Better yet, fix a <ahref="https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano">bug</a> in the program or implement a <ahref="https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/TODO">cool feature</a> and send us that instead (though cash is fine too).</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="7.4"></a>7.4. How do I join the development team?</h3>
<blockquote><p>The easiest way is to consistently send in good patches that add some needed functionality, fix a bug or two, and/or make the program more optimized/efficient. Then ask nicely and you will probably be added to the Savannah development list and be given write access after a while. There is a lot of responsibility that goes along with being a team member, so don't think it's just something to add to your resume.</p></blockquote>
<h3><aname="7.5"></a>7.5. Can I have write access to the git tree?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Re-read section <ahref="#7.4">7.4</a> and you should know the answer.</p></blockquote>
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