GNU nano 8.0 released
Date:
Wed, 01 May 2024 17:54:21 +0000
Description:
Version 8.0 of the terminal text editor GNU nano has been
released. This update includes several changes to keybindings to be
more newcomer-friendly, such as remapping Ctrl-F to forward-search and
adding an option for modern bindings: 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. The release also provides access to 14 levels of gray scale in xterm (up
from four), as well as many bug fixes.
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