[ANNOUNCE] nano-5.2 is released

[Benno Schulenberg]

2020.08.24 - GNU nano 5.2 "Ranrapalca"

• Making certain replacements after a large paste does not crash.
• Hitting a toggle at the Search prompt does not clear the answer.
• Using --positionlog does not complain at the first start.
• A macro containing a Search command will not sometimes fail.


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

A concise overview of nano's shortcut keystrokes:
https://nano-editor.org/cheatsheet.html

The tarball and its signature are here:
https://nano-editor.org/dist/v5/nano-5.2.tar.xz
https://nano-editor.org/dist/v5/nano-5.2.tar.xz.asc


Specific issues that were addressed in this release:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58825 (macro with Search command could fail)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58954 (Alt+AltGr+letter entered invalid byte)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58955 (with --raw, keystrokes could misbehave)

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58959 (with --disable-utf8, M-V M-Ins crashed)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58970 (after big paste, replacing could crash)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58972 (toggle at Search prompt wiped answer)

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58980 (unbound key canceled Shift-selection)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58984 ("light," produced poor error message)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58993 (with --positionlog, first start griped)


Changes between v5.1 and v5.2:
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Benno Schulenberg (31):
build: stop distributing the README.GIT file
build: stop mentioning Slang in two ./configure messages
bump version numbers and add a news item for the 5.2 release
display: restore the ability to resize the screen while searching
docs: add a cross-reference from 'findbracket' to 'set matchbrackets'
docs: adjust description of ^T in cheatsheet, and mention M-Bsp
docs: mention in the FAQ how to change the escape sequences of urxvt
docs: reshuffle the section about the file browser to a better place
gnulib: back away from a commit that causes trouble when using clang
gnulib: update to its current upstream state
history: do not interpret a failing stat() as an error
input: allow also a Meta keystroke to abort a Search command
input: dawdle after an ESC also when --rawsequences is used
input: discard any multibyte character when <Alt> is being held
input: do not enter invalid bytes when holding down both Alt keys
input: hold on to a shift-selected region when an unbound key is struck
po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
rcfile: make sure that "bright"/"light" are prefixes, not separate words
replacing: do not try to wipe nonexistent multidata, to avoid crashing
search: poll the input stream directly, not nano's own keystroke buffer
search: retain the current answer when something is toggled
tweaks: adjust a comment, and reshuffle the setting of a boolean
tweaks: condense two declarations
tweaks: condense two fragments of code, for compactness
tweaks: elide an unneeded variable
tweaks: improve three comments and an indentation
tweaks: move the keyboard-checking code to the end of the search loop
tweaks: remove a variable and two functions that have become redundant
tweaks: rename a variable, to not seem to refer to the scrollbar
tweaks: reshuffle four declarations, and rename two variables
verbatim: reserve enough space for the result also in non-UTF-8 locales

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Benno