Rilasciato GNU nano 8.0 “Grus grus”

GNU nano, l’editor di testo più amato da chi non sa come uscire da vim, si aggiorna alla versione 8.0. La novità principale di nano 8.0 riguarda l’introduzione di una nuova opzione per avere degli shortcut “moderni” per i comandi. L’opzione della riga di comando –modernbindings (-/) fa sì che ^Q fa uscire dall’editor, ^X ci fa fare il taglia, ^C per copiare, ^V per incollare etc.

Di seguito il changelog completo di nano 8.0:

• By default ^F is bound to starting a forward search, and ^B to
  starting a backward search, while M-F and M-B repeat the search in the
  corresponding direction. (See the documentation if you want the old
  bindings back.)

• Command-line option –modernbindings (-/) makes ^Q quit, ^X cut, ^C
  copy, ^V paste, ^Z undo, ^Y redo, ^O open a file, ^W write a file, ^R
  replace, ^G find again, ^D find again backwards, ^A set the mark,^T jump
  to a line, ^P show the position, and ^E execute.

• Above modern bindings are activated also when the name of nano’s executable (or a symlink to it) starts with the letter “e”.

• To open a file at a certain line number, one can now use also nano filename:number, besides nano +number filename.

• <Alt+Home> and <Alt+End> put the cursor on the first and
  last row in the viewport, while retaining the horizontal position.

• When the three digits in an #RGB color code are all the same, the
  code is mapped to the xterm grey scale, giving access to fourteen levels
  of grey instead of just four.

• For easier access, M-” is bound to placing/removing an anchor, and M-‘ to jumping to the next anchor.

• Whenever an error occurs, the keystroke buffer is cleared, thus stopping the execution of a macro or a string bind.

• The mousewheel scrolls the viewport instead of moving the cursor.