[Info-nano] [ANNOUNCE] nano-2.7.5 is released

[Benno Schulenberg]

2017.02.23 - GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace
                the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things
                when multiline regexes with identical start and end are
                involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches,
                does replacements at the edges of a marked region right,
                no longer hides double-width characters at the head of
                softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at
                startup, and documents the ability to read a file from
                standard input.  Come tickle my ears.


https://nano-editor.org/dist/v2.7/nano-2.7.5.tar.xz
https://nano-editor.org/dist/v2.7/nano-2.7.5.tar.xz.asc


Changes between v2.7.4 and v2.7.5:
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Benno Schulenberg (66):
      bump version numbers and add a news item for the 2.7.5 release
      files: leave out the confusing "[from ./]" when prompting for a command
      general: stop the spell checker from crashing after the changes in search
      justify: reduce the character count when trimming trailing spaces
      painting: account for index maybe being zero after the preceding change
      painting: advance only when both start /and/ end match are zero-length
      painting: do not bluntly ignore zero-length start matches -- handle them
      painting: do not let a match for 'end' overlap a match for 'start'
      painting: don't look at the current multidata when coloring a line
      painting: make use of the multidata of the preceding line
      painting: mark an unpaired start match as CWOULDBE
      painting: properly detect a change in start/end matches
      painting: properly look for a new start match only after the end match
      painting: stay within the line when skipping zero-length matches
      painting: when skipping a zero-length match, skip a character, not a byte
      po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
      rcfile: don't accept empty regexes for syntax coloring
      replacing: compensate cursor position only for replacements /before/ it
      replacing: detect when the whole region has already been covered
      replacing: don't go outside of the selected region
      replacing: ignore the first match when the user said no
      replacing: start at the region's edge instead of one step before it
      replacing: stop searching in a region when edge of buffer is reached
      screen: don't compare a character index with a column position
      screen: ehm... no, that was wrong: page_start /is/ a column position
      search: begin from where we are, to be able to find the first \B
      search: make the \b and \B anchors work correctly in both directions
      spelling: correctly adjust the length of a single-line region
      spelling: don't unnecessarily fiddle with the viewport
      startup: report an error when the given line or column number is invalid
      statusbar: display at most three consecutive alert messages
      tweaks: adjust some comments, reshuffle a line, and use a while loop
      tweaks: adjust two comments, to be more accurate
      tweaks: adjust whitespace after preceding changes
      tweaks: and rename another variable, to keep in style
      tweaks: chuck some obscuring debugging stuff
      tweaks: condense a comment, rename a variable, and use a while loop
      tweaks: differentiate single-regex matches from paired-regex matches
      tweaks: discard the now unused multidata-resetting routine
      tweaks: elide a variable plus its corresponding dark logic
      tweaks: fiddle with some wordings in the texinfo document
      tweaks: free an option string also when it was invalid
      tweaks: move a comment and rewrap a line
      tweaks: normalize some paragraph formatting in the FAQ
      tweaks: rearrange some code to separate softwrap and normal mode more
      tweaks: rename a function, and drop an unneeded parameter
      tweaks: rename a function, to show it refers to screen rows
      tweaks: rename another variable, to be shorter
      tweaks: rename a variable and condense an if
      tweaks: rename a variable -- lines refers to buffer, rows to screen
      tweaks: rename a variable, to be more general
      tweaks: rename a variable, to be more general and match one elsewhere
      tweaks: rename some variables, to better distinguish rows from lines
      tweaks: rename some variables, to show they refer to screen rows
      tweaks: rename two variables, and always pass a valid result back
      tweaks: rename two variables, to avoid double negatives
      tweaks: reshuffle an assignment and trim some comments
      tweaks: reshuffle a test to a better place
      tweaks: reshuffle three variables
      tweaks: scrap a bunch of debugging lines -- they obscure the logic
      tweaks: scrap some debugging stuff
      tweaks: slightly speed up the change detection for multiline matches
      tweaks: swap two blocks of code to reduce the number of #ifdefs
      tweaks: update some copyright years
      tweaks: use a cheaper way to detect an end-of-line
      tweaks: use a subtraction instead of a counter

David Lawrence Ramsey (16):
      docs: mention the ability to read from stdin
      screen: don't hide two-column characters at left edge in softwrap mode
      tweaks: adjust and correct some comments
      tweaks: always directly do a refresh when the margin changes
      tweaks: do a comparison a bit differently in do_output() and do_deletion()
      tweaks: fix compilation when configured with --enable-tiny
      tweaks: improve comments and formatting in update_line()
      tweaks: let update_line() return the correct value on error
      tweaks: reduce duplicate code in new_magicline() and move_to_filestruct()
      tweaks: rename a variable and adjust some types in edit_scroll()
      tweaks: rename a variable in edit_redraw(), to make sense
      tweaks: rename a variable in edit_scroll(), to make sense
      tweaks: rename mouse_x & mouse_y to mouse_col & mouse_row in do_mouse()
      tweaks: rename the functions for moving to and copying from a buffer
      tweaks: rewrap two lines and fix two typos
      tweaks: split the grafting code off from copy_from_buffer()

Mike Frysinger (3):
      syntax: c++: add override keyword
      syntax: gentoo: flag mixed whitespace
      syntax: gentoo: match .eblit files too

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Benno

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