[Nano-devel] nano 2.0.5pre1 is out

[David Ramsey]

It's available here:

http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/test/nano-2.0.5pre1.tar.gz

I've found some rather severe bugs in nano lately, and this should 
address them all.  Specifically:

* saving in a directory starting with a tilde that isn't a user's home 
directory will segfault if that directory's name isn't contained in some 
user's home directory (this was apparently broken sometime during 
1.3.x)

* saving in a directory starting with a tilde that isn't a user's home 
directory will save in the wrong home directory if that directory's name 
is contained in some user's home directory; for example, saving in "~d" 
will save it in the first user entry beginning with "d", which is 
"daemon" on my system (this is also in the 1.2.x branch, but better 
hidden as it doesn't tell you where it's trying to save the file if 
there's an error)

Note that these first two bugs were first mentioned here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419353

* "include" directives in nanorc files weren't properly checked to see 
if the user was trying to open a directory or a block device (this is a 
cut-and-paste error from the code in do_rcfile())

* files that are opened aren't tilde-expanded, so nano will think you 
have a new file if you specify "~user/file.txt" on the command line 
(with the quotes around it)

* a few more problems with warning the user if a file to be saved is 
going to overwrite another, or if its name is going to be changed; most 
notably, saving a file with no name over an existing file name will not 
produce a warning, and saving in a directory starting with a tilde that 
isn't the user's home directory (when the name to be saved under is 
different from that of the original file) will not produce a warning

* the Cancel key is now properly handled; this is so that if you run 
Putty with TERM set to "putty", Ctrl-C is interpreted properly (since 
the terminfo file for "putty" marks Ctrl-C as the equivalent of the 
Cancel key)

All these fixes have been applied to the 
2.1 branch as well.

I would like to get these fixes out in a release very soon, so please 
test, especially with tilde notation and overwriting/renaming files if 
you can.

Thanks in advance.