Changes between v2.9.7 and v2.9.8:

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Benno Schulenberg (64):

      build: fix compilation failure when configured with --enable-tiny

      build: fix compilation when configured with --disable-justify

      build: fix compilation when configured with --disable-multibuffer

      build: fix compilation with --enable-{tiny,help,multibuffer}

      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.8 release

      copyright: update the years for significantly changed files

      credits: sort the names roughly according to amount of influence

      docs: add a missing double quote in the default brackets string

      docs: describe what constitutes a paragraph

      docs: improve description of 'speller' and related bindable functions

      docs: improve the description of --nonewlines, and properly sort it

      docs: improve the description of the --autoindent option

      docs: make quotes around regexes bold, as they are part of the command

      docs: mark the filtering of text through an external command as done

      docs: register Marco as the author of the filtering feature

      docs: remove mention of the quotestr for when regex support is lacking

      docs: remove quotes around the name of a syntax -- they are not needed

      docs: thank Kamil for his bug fixes, and update an email address

      docs, usage: make it clear that the argument of --quotestr is a regex

      files: give feedback during writeout also when prepending or appending

      filtering: pair the cut and the insert, so they can be undone together

      gnulib: update to its current upstream state

      justification: find the beginning of a paragraph in a better way

      justification: limit the amount of recursion to prevent a stack overflow

      justification: recognize indented paragraphs also without --autoindent

      justification: when leading whitespace exceeds fill width, wrap anyway

      linter: don't try to access absent stat info, as that gives a crash

      linter: make sure that the margin is updated before displaying a buffer

      linter: make sure the shortcuts bar will redrawn when exiting early

      main: add "/" to the quoting regex, to allow justifying //-comments

      main: interpret only a double slash (//) as quoting, not a single one

      rcfile: don't crash when a bind to a string lacks the closing quote

      startup: provide a hint for people unfamiliar with the ^char convention

      syntaxes: condense and/or correct some extension regexes

      syntax: makefile: color all keywords that GNU make recognizes

      tweaks: adjust a translator hint

      tweaks: avoid an unused-variable warning with --enable-tiny

      tweaks: avoid a warning with --enable-{tiny,help,multibuffer}

      tweaks: condense a comment, and elide an unneeded 'if'

      tweaks: condense some repetitious comments, and check before assigning

      tweaks: condense two statements into one, and elide a 'break'

      tweaks: elide a function that is called just once

      tweaks: elide another function that is called just once

      tweaks: exclude an unneeded 'if' from the single-buffer version

      tweaks: frob a couple of comments

      tweaks: frob some comments, and rename two parameters to make sense

      tweaks: give some continuation lines a more obvious indentation

      tweaks: improve a couple of comments, and reshuffle a group of lines

      tweaks: make better use of an existing variable

      tweaks: make better use of an intermediate variable

      tweaks: reduce the abundance of the word 'toggle' in the Info manual

      tweaks: remove a superfluous assignment -- the lead length never changes

      tweaks: remove two superfluous checks, after making one of them so

      tweaks: rename a function, for more aptness and extra contrast

      tweaks: rename a variable, for contrast, and improve two comments

      tweaks: rename a variable, to give it some meaning

      tweaks: rename two variables, to better fit their tasks

      tweaks: reshuffle a condition, and adjust a comment and some indentation

      tweaks: reshuffle a couple of assignments

      tweaks: simplify the determining of the prefix for justified lines

      tweaks: stop decreasing both the iterator and the limit of a loop

      tweaks: use a more meaningful variable name, and avoid a distant 'else'

      wrapping: use "smart" autoindenting only when hard-wrapping is enabled

      wrapping: when autoindenting, use indentation of next line as example

Brand Huntsman (1):

      tweaks: avoid two unused variable warnings when NLS is disabled

Cristian Caloghera (1):

      syntax: makefile: recognize also an all-lowercase makefile name

David Lawrence Ramsey (3):

      bindings: add the "flippipe" bindable function

      tweaks: avoid an unused variable warning with --enable-tiny

      tweaks: fix some grammar plus a typo in the comments

Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita (2):

      linter: check all open buffers, instead of just the next one

      new feature: allow piping (selected) text to an external command

Changes between v2.9.6 and v2.9.7:

----------------------------------

Benno Schulenberg (21):

      bindings: add the 'linenumbers' bindable function

      bindings: rename constupdate to constantshow, cuttoend to cutfromcursor

      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.7 release

      docs: add notes about deprecated options and function names

      docs: break down some old improvements further per version

      docs: note a small difference with Pico in the default hard-wrapping

      docs: say thanks to three recent translators, and re-sort two others

      docs: slightly improve the description of the file browser in the manual

      main: clear a spurious error number, to avoid irrelevant messages later

      prompt: when asking for Yes/No/All, recognize also UTF-8 letters

      scrolling: only do a scroll when the edit window has more than one row

      signals: don't trap segfault/abort when envvar NANO_NOCATCH is defined

      signals: exclude the crash handler from the tiny version

      startup: suggest using ^D to finish reading from standard input

      tweaks: improve a couple of comments

      tweaks: normalize indentation and whitespace after previous changes

      tweaks: put check for -h and -l options in their alphabetical positions

      tweaks: put Yes/No/All in a consistent order (for the translators)

      tweaks: rename two variables, to be more descriptive

      tweaks: sort an option better, and reschedule a removal

      tweaks: use symbolic names instead of puzzling TRUE and FALSE

Devin Hussey (1):

      signals: upon a crash, save changed buffers and reset terminal state

Mark-Weston (1):

      new feature: an option to make the 'nextword' function stop at word ends

Changes between v2.9.5 and v2.9.6:

----------------------------------

Benno Schulenberg (39):

      build: do not prefix an alternative rcfilename with a dot

      build: fix compilation when configured with --disable-help

      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.6 release

      command-execution: do not crash when opening the pipe would fail

      completion: correctly do a signed comparison, to avoid a segfault

      files: prevent a hang when a call to sigaction() would fail

      formatting, linting: redetermine the argument list for every run

      gnulib: update to its current upstream state

      memory: use a reallocation to reduce the amount of leakage

      prompt: recognize Yes/No/All in English when the locale gives no match

      rcfile: skip color commands where some color name is invalid

      scrolling: don't redraw entire edit window when cursor goes offscreen

      search: always go forward by default, also when coming from Goto-Line

      search: use a better value to mean "nothing was typed"

      speller: don't add an extra newline when saving the text to a tempfile

      syntax: po: highlight also other escaped characters, not just \n

      syntax: sh: colorize options only when they are preceded by whitespace

      tweaks: adjust the translator hint about Yes/No/All

      tweaks: correct or improve a couple of comments

      tweaks: elide a function that is called just once

      tweaks: fix a typo, remove a blank line, and improve some comments

      tweaks: frob a couple of comments

      tweaks: group some more of the empty functions together

      tweaks: improve some comments, and exit with nonzero status upon error

      tweaks: improve the ordering of a couple of functions

      tweaks: invert two conditions and reshuffle, to reduce duplication

      tweaks: move a function to its proper location

      tweaks: move a function to its proper location

      tweaks: rearrange a few if statements more symmetrically

      tweaks: remove the group handling for undoing/redoing (un)indents

      tweaks: rename a function, to be more distinct from its caller

      tweaks: rename a function, to be more fitting and descriptive

      tweaks: rename a variable, for clarity

      tweaks: rename a variable, to be a bit more fitting

      tweaks: rename a variable, to be more clear and to match another

      tweaks: rename a variable, to match another and to be more visible

      tweaks: reshuffle two declarations

      tweaks: set the correct flags just once for each spell-fixing session

      tweaks: use meaningful names instead of puzzling values

Liu Hao (1):

      replacing: always clear the backwards flag for ^\, just like for ^W

Changes between v2.9.4 and v2.9.5:

----------------------------------

Benno Schulenberg (45):

      build: exclude more things when configured with --disable-multibuffer

      build: fix compilation again when configured with --enable-tiny

      build: fix compilation when configured with --disable-multibuffer

      build: fix compilation with --enable-{tiny,help,multibuffer}

      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.5 release

      cut: avoid calling renumber() on what might be NULL

      docs: clarify how the Linux console is deficient: in the arrow keys

      docs: clarify what the scrollup and scrolldown bindable functions do

      docs: document the newly added color name "normal"

      docs: mention in the FAQ that <Shift+Insert> pastes from the clipboard

      files: prevent an infinite loop when reading from standard input fails

      files: prevent the undo of reading a file into a new buffer

      help: describe the Scroll-Up and Scroll-Down commands more precisely

      help: do not reserve space for line numbers, as they are absent

      linting: drop messages for other files when configured for one buffer

      memory: plug a leak, by actually freeing a discarded undo struct

      scrolling: first move the cursor before pushing current chunk offscreen

      scrolling: let Scroll-Up/Down keep the cursor in the same text position

      selecting: don't cancel a softmark when just scrolling the screen

      small addition: understand color name "normal" to mean the default color

      syntax: sh: color also the 'cut', 'head', 'tail', and 'sort' commands

      syntax: sh: color options distinctively, and color also long options

      syntax: sh: uncolor "tar" when it's part of a filename

      tweaks: adjust a couple of types, to reduce the number of warnings

      tweaks: adjust or correct some comments, and rename a function

      tweaks: adjust the indentation after the previous changes

      tweaks: bundle some settings for a new buffer

      tweaks: change a parameter of open_buffer() and invert its logic

      tweaks: condense some code, to remove a bit of duplication

      tweaks: drop a handful of unhelpful asserts

      tweaks: elide an unneeded and shadowing variable

      tweaks: elide a parameter, as it's always the inverse of another

      tweaks: elide a parameter that is always 1

      tweaks: elide two parameters and thus a pair of wrapper functions

      tweaks: factor out the check for 'viewok' into its own function

      tweaks: fix a typo and adjust some wording and formatting in the FAQ

      tweaks: frob some comments plus miscellaneous other stuff

      tweaks: fuse two ifs into one

      tweaks: move an 'if' and then remove an unneeded label

      tweaks: reduce the font size of the questions in the FAQ

      tweaks: remove an inconsistent space from two pointer declarations

      tweaks: remove unneeded settings and unsettings of MULTIBUFFER

      tweaks: reshuffle some movement code, to reduce the number of conditions

      tweaks: revert commit c88a2fd9 -- the extra variable is needed

      tweaks: rewrap and amend some lines in the NEWS file

David Lawrence Ramsey (1):

      tweaks: correct several parameter types

Kamil Dudka (1):

      input: do not crash if sctofunc() returns NULL

Liu Hao (1):

      build: fix compilation error when configured with --disable-justify

Changes between v2.9.3 and v2.9.4:

----------------------------------

Benno Schulenberg (65):

      bindings: make a key defined as string work also in browser and viewer

      bindings: rename the bindable function 'gototext' to 'flipgoto'

      bindings: revert the ^/ changes, as ^/ is not always Go-To-Line

      bindings: show ^/ instead of ^_ for Go-To-Line

      build: fix compilation when configured with --enable-tiny

      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.4 release

      docs: mention that a key can be bound to a string

      docs: note also in the Info manual that text can be selected with Shift

      editing: when --smooth is used, make <Enter>-at-bottom scroll one row

      general: detect in a better way whether we're running on a Linux console

      gnulib: update to its current upstream state

      goto: avoid a segfault, by initializing 'answer' when it is NULL

      help: mention that some keys work on a region when the mark is on

      help: tweak the descriptions of ^X and ^R

      input: handle the implant() function separately also for the prompt

      input: handle the implant() function separately, as it is special

      memory: avoid a leak when toggling from Search to Goto

      memory: squeal when there is something wrong, instead of stumbling on

      new feature: allow binding a key to a string (in a nanorc file)

      prompt: disallow pasting when in restricted mode

      rcfile: allow a syntax name to be unquoted

      search: clear the existing answer when starting a new search

      search: get rid of some unneeded recursion when just toggling things

      selecting: cancel the softmark upon any attempt to move the cursor

      small addition: allow customizing the color of an error message

      syntax: color also ^/ in nano's help texts and in nanorc files

      syntaxes: remove quotes from each syntax name, and color it differently

      syntax: nanorc: color also bindings to a string as valid

      tweaks: adjust comments and indentation after the previous change

      tweaks: adjust two comments, move two declarations, rewrap three lines

      tweaks: appease valgrind concerning syscalls with uninitialized values

      tweaks: condense a comment and elide an 'if'

      tweaks: correct a typo in NEWS

      tweaks: correct a typo that broke binding a key to a string

      tweaks: do not needlessly renumber the lines in the buffer

      tweaks: don't call strcmp() to determine whether a string is empty

      tweaks: drop an assert, add a warning, and change a 'for' to a 'while'

      tweaks: drop some debugging stuff, and adjust what remains of it

      tweaks: elide another variable, to call a function less often

      tweaks: elide an unneeded variable

      tweaks: elide an unneeded variable

      tweaks: elide an unneeded variable

      tweaks: elide an unused variable and parameter

      tweaks: elide two unneeded booleans

      tweaks: exclude an unlikely error message from the tiny version

      tweaks: exclude an unlikely warning from the tiny version

      tweaks: fix a copy-and-paste error

      tweaks: make the fsfromline() call only for the undo types that need it

      tweaks: plug a memory leak when using Verbatim Input at a prompt

      tweaks: refactor the implanting of a key expansion

      tweaks: remove another superfluous check

      tweaks: remove a superfluous check

      tweaks: remove two deprecated options and six rebindable function names

      tweaks: remove two superfluous checks, and restrict two others

      tweaks: rename a parameter and a variable, to be more fitting

      tweaks: rename a variable to be more distinct and greppable

      tweaks: rename two variables, to be more meaningful

      tweaks: reshuffle some code, to be slightly less ugly

      tweaks: reshuffle some of the search-and-replace cleanup calls

      tweaks: reshuffle the undo types into mostly the same order everywhere

      tweaks: shorten the name of two record elements

      tweaks: slightly rewrap the FAQ's table of contents

      tweaks: transform a 'do' to a 'while', and reshuffle a comment

      tweaks: unabbreviate two variable names

      undo: when redoing, don't try to find a line number that might not exist

Brand Huntsman (1):

      color: remove unneeded bright comparision to prevent duplicate pairs

David Lawrence Ramsey (3):

      docs: mention that errorcolor does have default colors

      input: don't stop prepending when the user adds text via a shortcut

      tweaks: fix typo in rebindable function name

Tom Levy (1):

      syntax: go: highlight also floats with leading zeroes as valid

Changes between v2.9.2 and v2.9.3:

----------------------------------

Benno Schulenberg (65):

      build: fix compilation when configured with --enable(tiny,color,nanorc}

      build: fix compilation with --enable-tiny --enable-justify

      build: let ./configure fail (not just warn) when curses.h is missing

      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.3 release

      copyright: update the years for the FSF

      display: wipe the status bar when doing a total refresh

      docs: remove the note about needing a recent ncurses for macros to work

      docs: update the FAQ for the changed default location of history files

      docs: update the TODO file to the current state of affairs

      gnulib: update to its current upstream state

      help: don't get stuck when there is an unwrappable piece of text

      input: consume only the actual length of an escape sequence

      input: fully reset state when a three-digit character code is cut short

      input: make <Shift+Tab> do an unindent also on a Manjaro console

      input: recognize escape sequences for <Shift+PageUp> and <Shift+PageDown>

      input: recognize more escape sequences for <Shift+Home> and <Shift+End>

      input: recognize the deviant keycode for <Ctrl+End> in urxvt

      options: recognize -M and --trimblanks on the command line

      painting: look for an end match only after a start match, if any

      prompt: show whitespace only in the filename, not in the whole line

      replacing: don't skip the first character of a backwards-marked region

      search: suppress the occurrence at the cursor only when replacing

      startup: allow a named pipe as file argument when --noread is used

      startup: make an error message succinct and to the point

      startup: move the initialization of colors, so any error gets printed

      syntax: go: colorize only valid octal numbers

      syntax: lua: do not color debug.setinfo as it doesn't exist

      syntax: nanohelp: color also the Sh-Tab key combo

      tweaks: change a 'do' to a 'while', and return early to elide an 'if'

      tweaks: check for the type of terminal far earlier

      tweaks: condense a condition and a comment, and reshuffle a line

      tweaks: condense and rewrap some comments, and reindent two lines

      tweaks: condense the conditional compilation of shortcut reassignments

      tweaks: don't bother freeing the key buffer, just reallocate it

      tweaks: don't bother to reallocate when the keybuffer size decreases

      tweaks: drop a superfluous parameter, as it is always 1

      tweaks: drop a useless assert, and don't abort over an unhandled option

      tweaks: drop two unneeded initializations, and trim a comment

      tweaks: elide a tiny intermediate buffer, and rename two variables

      tweaks: exclude --trimblanks when no wrapping or justifying is configured

      tweaks: fully include Savefile and Wherewas in the tiny version

      tweaks: indenting text files with tabs is not a good idea

      tweaks: mark the two blocks that have a deviant indentation

      tweaks: move a bunch of comments to the lines that they refer to

      tweaks: move two functions to their proper place, orderingwise

      tweaks: remove a fragment of dead code

      tweaks: remove a handful of redundant (because always true) asserts

      tweaks: remove a superfluous case -- there can never be four digits

      tweaks: remove a superfluous check, as we insert always one code

      tweaks: rename a function, for aptness, and drop a superfluous check

      tweaks: rename a function, to be more distinct

      tweaks: rename a variable, and further condense some comments

      tweaks: rename a variable, for more contrast

      tweaks: rename a variable, to better fit its usage

      tweaks: rename two variables, and swap their declaration order

      tweaks: rename two variables, for preciseness and shortness

      tweaks: reshuffle a couple of lines

      tweaks: reshuffle a couple of lines, to make a bit more sense

      tweaks: reshuffle some stuff, and avoid a memory leak

      tweaks: reshuffle two condition series, to look better

      tweaks: rewrap a bunch of lines in the NEWS file

      tweaks: set a modifier in a single place, for conciseness

      tweaks: swap the row and col parameters to a more consistent order

      tweaks: transform a parameter, from a pointer to the value itself

      wrapping: don't trim a blank character that the user just typed

Brand Huntsman (1):

      startup: parse interface colors when they are read, not when initialized

Changes between v2.9.1 and v2.9.2:

----------------------------------

Benjamin Mintz (1):

      syntax: python: add 'async', 'await', and 'nonlocal' as keywords

Benno Schulenberg (62):

      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.2 release

      display: ensure that cursor is visible when compiled with --with-slang

      docs: mention that the source code is best viewed with a tab size of 4

      docs: say thanks to some fairly recent translators, and rename one

      gnulib: pull in the fix for the missing stat include

      gnulib: update to its current upstream state

      help: show that "Tab" will indent, just like "Sh-Tab" will unindent

      help: swap the order of the Complete and Comment functions

      indenting: don't exclude last line of region when region is empty

      indenting: keep affecting last line of marked region if it was at first

      input: allow using <Tab> and <Shift+Tab> to (un)indent selected region

      input: make <Ctrl+Shift+Arrow> work also when using --rebindkeypad

      input: optimize a bit for non-shortcut keys, as they are most frequent

      options: rename 'justifytrim' to 'trimblanks', because it has morphed

      prompt: blank the bar when a "continue?" is answered with No or ^C

      syntaxes: remove redundant word-boundary markers

      syntax: javascript: add some comments, and color explicit numbers too

      syntax: javascript: add some keywords, and sort them more logically

      syntax: javascript: color strings differently from major keywords

      syntax: javascript: require that a comment is preceded by whitespace

      syntax: lua: condense some regexes, tweak comments, reorder things

      syntax: nanorc: don't color parts of valid strings as if invalid

      syntax: python: color also the special values 'False', 'None', 'True'

      text: allow unindenting when not all lines are indented

      text: keep cursor at left edge when it IS there when indenting/commenting

      text: let a Shift-selection persist when indenting and commenting

      text: let indenting/commenting skip the last line if its x is zero

      text: set and reset the Modified state correctly when undoing/redoing

      tweaks: add a separate function that actually wipes the status bar

      tweaks: avoid incrementing a variable that won't be used again later

      tweaks: condense or rewrap a bunch of repetitious comments

      tweaks: condense, reword, and rewrap a bunch of comments

      tweaks: condense some debugging code, and rewrap a line

      tweaks: convert the indentation of the NEWS file too

      tweaks: convert the indentation to use only tabs

      tweaks: drop some old debugging code plus a superfluous comment

      tweaks: elide two parameters from the get_region() function

      tweaks: elide two variables that are used just once

      tweaks: factor out a piece of common code

      tweaks: fix some whitespace errors, and convert alignment tabs to spaces

      tweaks: fold some regexes into one another, for conciseness

      tweaks: frob four comments, and rewrap two lines

      tweaks: invert the logic of a variable, and rename it

      tweaks: limit the resetting of "Modified" to writing a full buffer

      tweaks: move some frequently-used keystrokes to the top of the list

      tweaks: remove a redundant call of renumber()

      tweaks: remove a superfluous condition

      tweaks: remove a superfluous placing of a terminating nul byte

      tweaks: remove some unneeded parentheses, and shorten two function calls

      tweaks: remove two irrelevant conditions

      tweaks: rename three variables, for more contrast and variety

      tweaks: reshuffle a bit of common code, moving it to an existing function

      tweaks: reshuffle another bit of code, for conciseness

      tweaks: rewrap some lines and some comments, and trim two others

      tweaks: slightly rename four functions, for aptness and variety

      tweaks: strip some debugging stuff, and condense a bit of code

      tweaks: trim another placing of a terminating nul byte

      tweaks: use for git the more faithful "less -x1,5" suggested by Brand

      tweaks: use spaces for alignment also in the THANKS file

      wrapping: delete trailing blanks upon hardwrapping, when requested

      wrapping: keep prepending to the same next line as long as possible

      wrapping: we're still on the same line if the next line has not changed

David Lawrence Ramsey (3):

      input: support backtab when Slang and/or --rebindkeypad is used

      tweaks: use printf's z modifier for (s)size_t, instead of casting

      undo: when adding text adds a magicline, an undo should remove both

Liu Hao (1):

      syntax: c: increase the color contrast of reminders like FIXME

Michael Francis (1):

      syntax: php: function and variable names can contain uppercase and digits

Mike Frysinger (1):

      syntax: javascript: add newer keywords and string syntax

Tom Levy (6):

      syntax: go: fix word boundary before dot in number literal

      syntax: go: sign of exponent in number literal is optional

      syntax: lua: add new and missing standard library functions

      syntax: lua: correct the word boundaries on standard library functions

      syntax: lua: require at least one digit for hexadecimal numbers

      syntax: lua: support fractional part and exponent for decimal and hex

Changes between v2.9.0 and v2.9.1:

----------------------------------

Benno Schulenberg (20):

      build: fix compilation with --disable-browser --disable-tabcomp

      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.1 release

      files: always update the stat info when the entire file is written

      files: save the marked region only when we've prompted for a file name

      gnulib: update to its current upstream state

      history: create the path '~/.local/share/' when it is needed

      history: make nano's state directory accessible for the user only

      history: save the positions file also when a record was deleted

      input: make the macro key discoverable by giving feedback when undefined

      linting: switch the mark off when the linter starts

      selecting: do not cancel the softmark when the cursor is not moved

      selecting: let a justification cancel a softmark

      syntax: adjust the magic strings for the changes since file-5.10

      tweaks: adjust indentation after previous change

      tweaks: elide the 'mark_set' boolean -- the 'mark' pointer is enough

      tweaks: rename, rewrap, and reshuffle some stuff, and frob some comments

      tweaks: reshuffle a couple of lines, and frob a comment or two

      tweaks: reshuffle a couple of lines, to put similar things together

      undo: clear the Modified state when the very first edit is undone

      undo: discarding the stack does not always lose information

Changes between v2.8.7 and v2.9.0:

----------------------------------

Benno Schulenberg (103):

      bindings: don't allow calling help when searching in the help viewer

      bindings: make ^Q and ^S do something useful by default

      bindings: make the search function rebindable again in help and browser

      bindings: make ^W start always a forward search (as there is ^Q now)

      browser: place the cursor properly on the selected file when -g is used

      build: let git ignore also the generated PDF file

      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.9.0 release

      copyright: update some years, and standardize on the dashed format

      display: keep the cursor switched on when resizing the screen

      display: rework the switching on and off of the cursor

      display: stop the help viewer from turning on the multibuffer indicator

      display: switch off the cursor early on during startup

      docs: make it clearer that a Signed-off-by is wanted on patches

      docs: mention that macros work correctly only on terminal emulators

      docs: remove another remark about indenting lacking undo capability

      docs: update references to the nanorc files for the XDG changes

      files: avoid an abortion when excuting a command in a new buffer

      gnulib: update to its current upstream state

      help: don't fall back to other syntaxes if there is no nanohelp one

      history: after loading the lists, mark them as unchanged

      history: remove the migration service for the old searches file

      input: recognize Option+Arrow keys on iTerm2 in "xterm mode"

      moving: don't slither and slide over tabs when they are overlong

      moving: prevent the cursor sticking on or skipping over overwide tabs

      new feature: a bindable function that starts always a backward search

      options: remove '--quiet' and 'set quiet', because they hide problems

      options: retire 'set backwards' -- it's still recognized but a no-op

      organization: move all history-related stuff to its own file

      ouch: set the positions-file name also when using the legacy state dir

      painting: evade an ncurses bug by adding the A_PROTECT attribute

      search: suppress the "not found" message when replacements were made

      search: suppress the "Search Wrapped" message when doing replacements

      search: wipe reassuring feedback as soon as searching has finished

      startup: don't ask the user to press Enter upon an rcfile error

      startup: don't produce more than three consecutive beeps

      startup: when an rcfile contains errors, report this on the status bar

      syntax: default: use colors that are readable also on dark backgrounds

      titlebar: don't reshow version when dropping back to a single buffer

      titlebar: don't show nano's name and version when in the file browser

      titlebar: drop the prefix "File: " from before the filename

      tweaks: add a translator hint, and adjust two others

      tweaks: adjust a comment, and condense a fragment of code

      tweaks: adjust indentation and comments after the previous change

      tweaks: adjust two comments, and correct and a few cosmetic mistakes

      tweaks: avoid an unused-variable warning with --disable-nanorc

      tweaks: change some mayday messages, to urge the user to report a bug

      tweaks: change the arrows to triangles also for searching in file browser

      tweaks: change the help-text arrows to triangles, to be more visible

      tweaks: chuck a bunch of asserts -- they have lost their usefulness

      tweaks: chuck an assert, and then condense the code and a comment

      tweaks: constify the result strings of getenv(), as a reminder

      tweaks: correct two minor things in the documentation

      tweaks: discard another set of useless asserts

      tweaks: discard some obsolete debugging stuff

      tweaks: don't construct the positions-history filename time and again

      tweaks: drop a bunch of outdated asserts

      tweaks: drop the ineffective cgitrc -- sorting by "age" does not work

      tweaks: elide a comment, and improve a couple of others

      tweaks: elide an unneeded check

      tweaks: elide an unneeded function now that stuff is grouped together

      tweaks: elide a superfluous allocation

      tweaks: elide two variables by using a pointer instead of an index

      tweaks: fix compilation when configured with --disable-histories

      tweaks: fix compilation when configured with --enable-tiny

      tweaks: fix compilation with --enable-tiny --enable-histories

      tweaks: frob a couple of comments

      tweaks: frob some comments and rename a few variables and a function

      tweaks: get rid of some cluttering conditional compilation

      tweaks: improve some comments, and rename a variable for symmetry

      tweaks: make the switching on and off of the cursor a bit more compact

      tweaks: move a general function to the utils.c file

      tweaks: reduce a bit of code duplication

      tweaks: remove a comment from the docs that is no longer accurate

      tweaks: remove another bit of conditional compilation

      tweaks: remove a superfluous no-op function call

      tweaks: remove a useless prefix from a hundred constants

      tweaks: rename a function and swap its two parameters

      tweaks: rename a function plus two parameters, to be more fitting

      tweaks: rename a macro, to make a little more sense

      tweaks: rename a variable, to avoid a possible confusion

      tweaks: rename a variable, to make more sense

      tweaks: rename one variable once more

      tweaks: rename some constants, to follow the same underscoreless scheme

      tweaks: rename three functions, to be shorter or clearer

      tweaks: rename three variables, for more contrast

      tweaks: rename two variables, for contrast, and frob some comments

      tweaks: rename two variables, to be more indicative of what they do

      tweaks: rename two variables, to make a little more sense

      tweaks: reshuffle a bit of code and elide an unneeded variable

      tweaks: reshuffle a couple of lines, and trim some comments

      tweaks: reshuffle some code, and rename a variable

      tweaks: reshuffle some code in order to elide a variable

      tweaks: reshuffle some regexes, for order and compactness

      tweaks: strip four unneeded checks

      tweaks: transform the token DISABLE_COLOR to ENABLE_COLOR

      tweaks: transform the token DISABLE_EXTRA to ENABLE_EXTRA

      tweaks: transform the token DISABLE_HISTORIES to ENABLE_HISTORIES

      tweaks: transform the token DISABLE_JUSTIFY to ENABLE_JUSTIFY

      tweaks: transform the token DISABLE_OPERATINGDIR to ENABLE_OPERATINGDIR

      tweaks: transform the token DISABLE_SPELLER to ENABLE_SPELLER

      tweaks: transform the token DISABLE_WRAPJUSTIFY to ENABLED_WRAPORJUSTIFY

      tweaks: transform the token DISABLE_WRAPPING to ENABLE_WRAPPING

      tweaks: use mnemonic constants instead of TRUE and FALSE

Brand Huntsman (3):

      bindings: allow exiting from the help viewer with F1, like with ^G

      history: prevent overwriting of positions between multiple instances

      syntax: nanohelp: colorize Up, Down, Left and Right (when not in UTF-8)

David Lawrence Ramsey (18):

      build: add history.c to the list of files with translatable strings

      display: don't cut off zero-width characters at the end of a chunk

      docs: decribe the bindable functions 'recordmacro' and 'runmacro'

      docs: document the more everyday names of three bindable functions

      docs: remove man page reference to indent/unindent lacking undo/redo

      files: don't change file format when inserting into an existing buffer

      help: allow firstline and lastline to work at the search prompt

      history: fix the check for an existing $HOME/.nano/ directory

      moving: set the preferred column properly when doing a smart home

      search: don't bother saving and restoring the search direction

      search: trim a failed search string for width instead of length

      softwrap: break before multi-column Unicode blanks when they overshoot

      syntax: nanorc: properly color valid arguments of 'selectedcolor'

      text: hook up indenting and unindenting to the undo/redo code

      text: move the indenting of a single line into its own function

      text: move the unindenting of a single line into its own function

      tweaks: use printf's z modifier for most of the size_t/ssize_t types

      undo: generalize update_comment_undo() into update_multiline_undo()

Lion Yang (1):

      input: ensure that standard input uses blocking mode

Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita (5):

      general: do not free strings gotten from getenv(), to avoid a crash

      history: remember the commands that were executed during this session

      history: remember the list of executed commands across sessions

      new feature: show current and total number of open buffers in title bar

      new feature: the ability to record and play back a series of keystrokes

Simon Ochsenreither (1):

      startup: look for nanorc and history files also in the XDG directories

Viorel Bota (1):

      files: check for a changed disk file also for 'savefile' and --tempfile

Changes between v2.8.6 and v2.8.7:

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Benno Schulenberg (54):

      bindings: hard-bind Alt+Up and Alt+Down to findprevious and findnext

      browser: correct the inverted search behavior for Alt+Up/Alt+Down

      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.7 release

      display: catch all cases where the cursor can be pushed offscreen

      display: don't doubly show tabs that cross a chunk boundary

      files: do not silently ignore an invalid backup directory, but die

      files: don't close a file descriptor when opening failed  [coverity scan]

      files: don't try to open a negative file descriptor  [coverity scan]

      gnulib: update to its current upstream state

      linting: don't try to put the cursor at a negative x position

      linting: skip the introductory message produced by 'gcc -fshow-column'

      mouse: one click of the wheel should move three lines, not three pages

      moving: don't push x forward when backward movement lands on a split tab

      moving: get <Up> unstuck when trying to pass over a sprawling tab

      moving: improve retention of the target column somewhat

      moving: the current chunk is always 0 when not in softwrap mode

      moving: use the correct formula for pushing the index forward

      rcfile: don't leak a shortcut when something goes wrong  [coverity scan]

      softwrap: properly move up and down over tabs that are split over rows

      syntax: c: give labels some color too

      syntax: html: don't bother coloring tags that cross line boundaries

      syntax: python: don't require a character after an opening triple quote

      text: properly unindent lines that consist of only whitespace

      tweaks: a comma does not end a sentence, and is not part of a variable

      tweaks: adjust the indentation after the previous change

      tweaks: adjust the indentation after the previous change

      tweaks: adjust the indentation after the previous change

      tweaks: allow enough space for the Y/N/A characters  [coverity scan]

      tweaks: avoid trying to stat a file that might be NULL  [coverity scan]

      tweaks: close a file also in the error path  [coverity scan]

      tweaks: condense or improve some comments

      tweaks: condense some logic, to elide a variable and a comment

      tweaks: do not leak the indentation when all lines are empty

      tweaks: don't close a descriptor when its stream has already been closed

      tweaks: drop some debugging stuff

      tweaks: drop some debugging stuff, and frob two comments

      tweaks: elide an unneeded pointer

      tweaks: elide the global variable 'full_operating_dir'

      tweaks: fix compilation with --enable-{tiny,help,multibuffer}

      tweaks: group all movement routines in corresponding pairs

      tweaks: keep the const qualifier of the syntax name  [coverity scan]

      tweaks: remove includes that appear to be superfluous

      tweaks: rename a function, to let it make more sense

      tweaks: rename a label, to better match its task

      tweaks: renumber the special key codes, to be in sequence and grouped

      tweaks: reshuffle code and frob comments, to reduce the number of lines

      tweaks: reshuffle some code to harmonize two related functions

      tweaks: reshuffle some declarations and trim a few comments

      tweaks: restore an include that is necessary on some platforms

      tweaks: show "where is next" in the help lines of the file browser

      tweaks: simply set the proper scrolling mode, instead of imitating it

      tweaks: snip a superfluous clearing of the bottom bars after help

      tweaks: sort the includes, so it's a little easier to see what is there

      tweaks: specify more directly in what manner to move the viewport

David Lawrence Ramsey (23):

      browser: allow backward/forward re-searches with Alt+Up/Alt+Down

      display: constrain line numbers on softwrapped lines with sprawling tabs

      display: do show the visible character for a tab when it starts a row

      display: revamp how screen updates are done in the movement code

      moving: redraw not just the new current line but also the prior one

      small addition: allow customizing the color of selected text

      softwrap: correctly move vertically through overwide tabs

      softwrap: don't push a straddling tab to the next chunk

      softwrap: improve left/right navigation across line boundaries

      softwrap: make sure char_len is set when a tab is wider than a chunk

      softwrap: properly update the viewport when adding text at firstcolumn

      text: make indenting add to the beginning of the line

      text: make unindenting remove from the beginning of the line

      tweaks: adjust spacing and wording in sample.nanorc

      tweaks: correct a comment typo and an indentation error

      tweaks: harmonize some prototypes with their functions

      tweaks: remove unneeded parentheses and blank line and braces

      tweaks: replace a misplaced tab with a space

      tweaks: set the target row for smooth scrolling more directly

      tweaks: use charalloc() instead of (char *)nmalloc() * sizeof(char)

      weeding: drop the forreal parameter from place_the_cursor()

      weeding: remove redundant casts of nmalloc()

      weeding: remove the unused be_clever parameter from do_home()/do_end()

Rishabh Dave (1):

      new feature: allow pasting at all input prompts

Urja Rannikko (1):

      bindings: hard-bind Alt+Left and Alt+Right to buffer switching

Changes between v2.8.5 and v2.8.6:

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Benno Schulenberg (58):

      build: for Solaris, tell the linker to use a threading lib

      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.6 release

      display: avoid a jumpy cursor by redrawing bottom bars only when needed

      display: when back in the main loop, always redraw the help lines

      display: wipe stale messages from the status bar straightaway

      docs: add some more mark-up to the Info document

      docs: be more precise about when a dash is given instead of a filename

      docs: drop the cluttering Info-style links from the HTML manual

      docs: improve cross references and mark-up in the Info document

      docs: improve some spacing, especially of the synopsis in the PDF

      docs: make the guillemot and the middle dot appear correctly in HTML

      docs: move the descriptions of 'header' and 'magic' next to 'syntax'

      docs: remove the mention of backslashes for the argument of 'comment'

      docs: reword the explanation of the 'syntax' command

      docs: use real cross references in the Info document

      docs: use the @command and @option mark-up more consistently

      files: don't bother counting rows when opening a fresh buffer

      files: warn more conspicuously when the file on disk has changed

      gnulib: update to its current state

      input: recognize the Ctrl+Arrow key sequences from Haiku's Terminal

      options: recognize -a and --atblanks on the command line

      options: rename --cut to --cutfromcursor, to be clearer

      pasting: restore the cap on the number of chunks to move backward

      rcfile: don't require backslashing in the argument of 'comment'

      screen: defeat a VTE/Konsole bug also for the case of --constantshow

      screen: retain the same help-line tags when the window is resized

      softwrap: when possible, go back a whole bunch of chunks at a time

      startup: don't try parsing color names that were not specified

      startup: in default mode, display the tail of the file as Pico does

      suspension: prevent entering an invalid byte upon resume (with S-Lang)

      syntax: gentoo: make it clearer that the file contains two syntaxes

      syntax: man, groff: fix the string that introduces a comment

      syntax: nanorc: don't color numeric arguments specially

      syntax: nanorc: don't color the argument of 'linter' as if invalid

      syntax: texinfo: cover also some special cases like @U, @OE and @TeX

      tweaks: adjust an error message so it fits all possible cases

      tweaks: avoid a clang warning about an expression being treated as NULL

      tweaks: avoid a failure with black diamonds in a PDF

      tweaks: avoid an unused-variable warning for the tiny version

      tweaks: chuck some debugging stuff

      tweaks: chuck two useless asserts, and elide a call to strncasecmp()

      tweaks: correct two conditions for conditional compilation

      tweaks: drop a bunch of useless asserts

      tweaks: elide unneeded calls of get_last_chunk_leftedge()

      tweaks: fix compilation with --enable-tiny

      tweaks: move an include to the file that actually makes use of it

      tweaks: put declarations always first, so it will compile on Haiku

      tweaks: recognize the empty string as comment inhibitor, instead of NULL

      tweaks: remove two superfluous includes

      tweaks: rename a constant, to match the corresponding option

      tweaks: rename another constant, to be more precise

      tweaks: rename a variable, to have more contrast

      tweaks: rename four functions, to be more distinct

      tweaks: rename two variables, to make a little sense

      tweaks: reshuffle some things to condense the code

      tweaks: simplify the parsing of color combinations

      tweaks: spell an option correctly in NEWS

      tweaks: swap ^X and ^L in the help lines of the help viewer

David Lawrence Ramsey (29):

      display: when converting tabs, don't go beyond the screen width

      docs: consistently describe the -U/-c and -r/-w overrides

      docs: mention that boldtext can be overridden also for function tags

      docs: mention the default values for comment and whitespace directives

      moving: fix the cursor jumping back and forth with non-smooth paging

      moving: make vertical movement account for varying chunk width

      new feature: allow lines to be softwrapped at whitespace

      replacing: make spotlight() account for varying chunk width

      softwrap: add new functions for chunks of varying width

      softwrap: don't flag EOL too early, nor break continuous text too early

      softwrap: in do_mouse(), keep the cursor before a softwrap breakpoint

      softwrap: make the changes to actually allow the chunk width to vary

      softwrap: prepare for allowing the chunk width to vary

      softwrap: remove unneeded caps on the number of chunks to move

      syntax: nanorc: properly color a "fill" option with a negative value

      text: adjust the comments in do_indent() and do_unindent()

      text: make do_unindent() an exact copy of do_indent()

      text: make sure commenting is disabled when comment "" was specified

      text: normalize the indentation in do_indent() and do_unindent()

      text: remove indent-related code from do_unindent()

      text: remove the last usage of cols in do_indent() and do_unindent()

      text: remove unindent-related code from do_indent()

      text: remove unneeded references to cols from the indentation routines

      text: update placewewant properly when indenting/unindenting

      tweaks: correct a parameter type, and correct two empty initializations

      tweaks: fix a typo in NEWS

      tweaks: only compensate for a partially-offscreen line in softwrap mode

      tweaks: remove unneeded braces, and mark empty parameter list as void

      usage: a dash doesn't have to come first among the filenames

Changes between v2.8.4 and v2.8.5:

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Benno Schulenberg (35):

      bindings: in the tiny version exclude word jumping from the prompts

      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.8.5 release

      display: don't let a SIGCONT write anything to the screen

      display: don't show the cursor while we are busy calculating its position

      display: redraw title bar and edit window only when needed

      display: show the cursor position also when searching took a while

      docs: avoid a double "see" for cross references in the HTML manual

      docs: spell "title bar" and "status bar" correctly

      gnulib: update to its current state

      input: give an appropriate message when there are too many errors

      startup: allow negative line and column numbers on the command line

      startup: allow positioning the cursor also when reading standard input

      startup: always open with the file that was mentioned first

      startup: don't crash when opening standard input would fail

      startup: don't mark the buffer as modified when in view mode

      startup: don't mark the buffer as modified when nothing was read

      startup: don't try placing the cursor when reading standard input failed

      startup: don't use position history when reading from standard input

      suspension: fake a SIGWINCH when coming back out of the background

      suspension: remove a duplicate setting of the HUP and TERM handler

      syntax: default: allow leading whitespace before a hash comment

      tweaks: adjust indentation after preceding changes

      tweaks: avoid compiler warning about implicit type

      tweaks: be consistent in the spelling of title bar and status bar

      tweaks: don't bother calculating the position when we won't show it

      tweaks: elide a function that should not be a separate one

      tweaks: elide a variable

      tweaks: frob a few comments, and elide and #ifndef

      tweaks: reduce the scope of three variables, and rename them besides

      tweaks: reduce the scope of two variables, and rename them too

      tweaks: rename a function and a variable, to better match what they do

      tweaks: rename a variable, and frob a couple of comments

      tweaks: rename two functions and a variable, and invert its logic

      tweaks: reshuffle some stuff, to put related things closer together

      tweaks: unglobalize the nodelay_mode variable

Changes between v2.8.3 and v2.8.4:

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