[Nano-devel] [ANNOUNCE] nano-2.9.6 is released

[Benno Schulenberg]

2018.04.27 - GNU nano 2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion,
             makes --enable-altrcname work again, improves the fluidity
             of scrolling when using the touchpad, tweaks the syntaxes
             for shell scripts and PO files, makes a replacing session
             go always forward by default, no longer inserts a newline
             after an external spell check of a selected region, always
             accepts the English Y and N (and A) at a yes-no prompt in
             any locale, and solves a few hypothetical bugs


GNU nano is a simple and easy-to-use editor for on the terminal.
  https://nano-editor.org/

The tarball and its signature are here:
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-2.9.6.tar.xz
  https://nano-editor.org/dist/latest/nano-2.9.6.tar.xz.asc


Specific bugs that were fixed in this release:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53532  (build failure with --disable-help)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53562  (laggy scrolling when using touchpad)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53694  (--enable-altrcname was broken)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53716  (unchanging linter after being used)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53720  (theoretical hang)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53722  (segfault when using word completion)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53723  (theoretical crash)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53735  (unexpected backward search)
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53742  (extra newline after a spell check)


Changes between v2.9.5 and v2.9.6:
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Liu Hao (1):
      replacing: always clear the backwards flag for ^\, just like for ^W

Benno Schulenberg (40):
      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
      po: update translations and regenerate POT/PO files  [*amended message*]
      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

-- 

Benno

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